this mannor of Wulsthorp, which was Sr. Isaac's paternal estate, is about £30 p ann. but he had another estate at Sustern adjacent, which came by his mor. The whole is about £80 p ann. & descended to his next heir John Newton, who is deriv'd from his fars. 2d bror.. this idle fellow I knew very well, whilst I lived at Grantham. he soon spent it, by cocking, horseracing, drinking, & folly.
Sr. Isaac was a posthumous, & only child. his mor. was marryed again to a neighboring clergyman, Mr Barnabas Smith, minister of North witham near Colsterworth jan. 27 1645. She had three children by him.
Isaac was sent at a proper age to Grantham School, wh was built, founded, & well endow'd by Richard Fox, bishop of Winchester, born at Ropesly near here. The same prelate founded Corpus Christi College in Oxford. I have an old picture of him, painted on wood, which I bought at Stamford. he was blind in the latter part of his life. He was one of H. VIIIths godfars.
the people of Grantham have a common notion, that the learned Mr Walker, author of the book of latin particles, was Sr. Isaac's master. & they led me into that mistake in my Itinerary, pa. 49. but since, I have learned, that Mr John Stokes was
