KEEPING, to be in keeping with, or harmonize with,—a technical term used in painting, and signifying the peculiar management of those parts of the art, colouring and chiaro scuro, which produces the proper degree of relievo in objects admitted into a composition ; according to their relative positions in the imagined scene, and the degree of importance the artist attaches to them.
KENILWOIZTIf CASTLE, is finned in the annals of Warw ickshire for its antiquity. " This ancient castle," says Dugdale, " was the glory of all these parts, and for many respects may be ranked, in a third place at the least, with the most stately castles of England." This fortress was built by Geoffry de Clinton, in the time of Henry 1. 11e was chamberlain and treasurer to that monarch. By subsequent kings and occupiers it was greatly enlarged and strengthened at different times: and in the various civil and domestic wars of England, it was frequently the object of contention with monarchs and nobles. Edward II. was confined for a time in Kenilworth Castle, shortly before his murder in Berkley Castle, (A.D. 1327). In the following reign, John of Gaunt became owner of the castle, which he much augmented by new and magnificent buildings. IV.,
son of John of Gaunt, united the castle, which he inherited, to the domains of the crown, of which it formed part till the tune of Elizabeth, who granted it to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. The magnificent entertainment given here by Leicester to Elizabeth, has been made familiar to the general reader by Sir Walter Scott's historical romance of " Kenil worth." After the civil war of Charles 1., the castle was dismantled, but extensive and picturesque ruins remain. What remains of the buildings shows that the whole was an immense and spacious pile; consisting of an outer wall with bastion towers, a tilt-yard, with towers at each end ; and several buildings within the ballium, or base-court. The area within the walls consists of seven acres. There were four gatehouses, and the walls were from ten to fifteen feet in thickness. At a short distance from the castle was a priory for Black Canons ; of which buildings, parts of the gateway and chapel remain. Near these is the parish church, the western doorway of which is a curious specimen of ancient architecture.