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 air, & for pleaantness; being mot agreably diverify'd with open heaths, rich meadow, & incloure, woods, & parks: the mot beautiful cornfields, prings, brooks, & rivers. underneath tis a white tone rock, fit for building.

this place produc'd the greatet genius of human kind. He was born in the Mannor houe, wh was the family etate, where they hold a Court leet, & a Court baron. the old copys, & records of the Court are lot. But it has been in the Newton family, ever ince Queen Elizabeths time. We ee in the genealogy, John Newton purchad it; who lived at Wetby, & dy'd 1563. the report is, that it was bought of the great Cecil, to whom Q. Elizabeth gave it, or of his on. this, & otherlands hereabouts, fell to the crown; when the Lord Rochford was beheaded by H.Henry [sic] VIII. wh Lord is buryed at Stoke Rochford, hard by: which etate is now Mr Turners. a place remarkable for a fine pring. there was a Roman Villa there. I have een the remains of it, & Roman coyns there found.

this Mannor of Wulthorp probably belong'd to Ulfus and took its name from him. he was 4th on of k.king [sic] Harold slain by Wm. Conqr.William the Conqueror [sic]. his mor. was Agatha siter to Edwin, & Morcar, earls; & sons of Algar,