I have two before me at this moment; one copied from a tombstone of a church-yard in Warwickshire: "Here lieth the body of Joseph Batte, confidential servant to George Birch, Esq.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
One of the Members for Warwickshire being present, told the King, "He thought his constituents could answer his Majesty's wishes."
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
"The beauty of Birmingham, a good market-town in the extreme parts of Warwickshire, is one street going up alonge, almost from the left ripe of the brook, up a meane hill, by the length of a quarter of a mile, I saw but one parish-church in the town.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton