| To proceed hence, as I took my own route I came next to Solyhill,
which has nothing remarkable but its church : then to Bremicham, full
of inhabitants, and echoing forges, moft of the inhabitants being
iron manufacturers. The lower part of it is very wet, the upper adorned
with handfome buildings. I confider it as a circumftance not a little
to its honour that the noble and warlike family of the Bremichams
in Ireland derive their defeat and name from hence. Next, on the Northern
edge of the county, ftands Sutton Colfield, in a woody and barren
fituation, boafting for its native John Voify, bifhop of Exeter, who
in the reign of Henry III raifed the town from its declining fiate
by buildings, privileges, and a grammar-fchool. Going down from hence
Southward I came to Colefhull, formerly belonging to the Clintons;
and near it Maxftoke caftle, which owned for its lords, almoft by
uninterrupted fucceffion, the Limmfeys, who were lords of Wolverley,
the Odingsells, of Flemifh extraction, and the Clintons, who have
been very famous in this country. |
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