. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . place of great ftrength. On the north-weft fide of Sleaford is a place called TempleBruer, where there are the remains of a church, built by theKnights Templars; and near it are the remains of a ftone , a little village on the great north road betweenStamford and Grantham, is memorable for being the place ofnativity of that illuftrious philofopher, Sir Ifaac Newton.
. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . place of great ftrength. On the north-weft fide of Sleaford is a place called TempleBruer, where there are the remains of a church, built by theKnights Templars; and near it are the remains of a ftone , a little village on the great north road betweenStamford and Grantham, is memorable for being the place ofnativity of that illuftrious philofopher, Sir Ifaac Newton. Thehoufe in which he was born, which is a kind of a farm houfe, builtin ftone, is ftill remaining. The learned Dr. Stukeley vifitedit in 1721, and was (hewed the infide of it by the countrypeople; and in a letter to Dr. Mead on this occafion, he fays*u They led me up ftairs, and {hewed me Sir Ifaacs ftudy, where I fuppofe he ftudied when in the country, in his younger days,* as, perhaps, when he vifited his mother from the univerfity. Ii( obferved the (helves were of his own making, being pieces** of deal boxes, which, probably, hefent his books and clothesdown in upon thefeoccanons. S E A T S, ■ >ym. mam THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. g3 SEATS. Belvoir Castle, a feat of the Duke of Rutland, is aboutfour miles from Grantham, and is feen almoft in the clouds onthe top of a vaft hill, for many miles around. It is a very mag-nificent building, and has a fine gallery of paintingsj and, as itsname imports, commands a beautiful profpect, into the countiesof Nottingham, Derby, Leicefter, Rutland, and Northampton,It was originally built by Robert de Tedenci, or Tetencio, foonafter the Norman invafion, and was afterwards rebuilt by anEarl of Rutland. From the rooms of this houfe Lincoln-minfter may be feen perfectly clear, though k is thirty milesdiftant; Newark is alfc feen in the center of the valley ; andNottingham is eafily difcerned. GrimsthoRPE, a feat of the Duke of Ancafter, is a
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