MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 
No. 388. ] NOVEMBER 1, 1823. | [4 of Vol. 56. 
NEWSTEAD ABBEY, rue FAMILY SEAT oF tue BYRONS. 
THE celebrity which Lory Byron has acquired, from the variety, as well as the 
acknowledged ‘genius of many of his writings, rendering it probable that of contempo- 
rary poets he atleast will always rank among the standard authors of the country, 
Newstead merits a plaée in our exhibition of the houses connceted with British genins. 
After being. the mansion of the family for several generations, it is said to have been 
recently alienated by the present lord, whose passion for adventure has led him to prefer 
fur his residence the eastern parts of Europe to his own country. Newstead is an 
object of interest, as connected with a distinguished naval family, and from its own 
picturesque character, independently of the living peer; and has always been ranked 
among the curiosities of Nottinghamshire.—In the thirty-second year of his reign, 
King Henry the Eighth, by letters patent, granted to his favourite, Sir John Byron, 
knight, and to his heirs, the priory of Newstede, with the manor and rectory of 
Papplewy ke, and all the closes about the priory in the commons of Ravenshede and 
Kygell in the forest, Newstede, Papplewyke, Lindebye, Bullwell, &c.; the last of 
which was soon afterwards emparked, and ornamented with a neat house; and, at, the 
present time, for variety and taste in the internal decorations of the house, and for 
richness and diversity jn the surrounding scenery, Newstead is not to be surpassed, and 
hardly equalled. 
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