air, & for pleaſantness; being moſt agreably diverſify'd with open heaths, rich meadow, & incloſure, woods, & parks: the moſt beautiful cornfields, ſprings, brooks, & rivers. underneath tis a white ſtone rock, fit for building.
this place produc'd the greateſt genius of human kind. He was born in the Mannor houſe, wh was the family eſtate, where they hold a Court leet, & a Court baron. the old copys, & records of the Court are loſt. But it has been in the Newton family, ever ſince Queen Elizabeths time. We ſee in the genealogy, John Newton purchaſd it; who lived at Weſtby, & dy'd 1563. the report is, that it was bought of the great Cecil, to whom Q. Elizabeth gave it, or of his ſon. this, & otherlands hereabouts, fell to the crown; when the Lord Rochford was beheaded by H. VIII. wh Lord is buryed at Stoke Rochford, hard by: which eſtate is now Mr Turners. a place remarkable for a fine ſpring. there was a Roman Villa there. I have ſeen the remains of it, & Roman coyns there found.
this Mannor of Wulſthorp probably belong'd to Ulfus and took its name from him. he was 4th ſon of k. Harold slain by Wm. Conqr.. his mor. was Agatha siſter to Edwin, & Morcar, earls; & sons of Algar,
