MANOR OF NEWLAND. 



Monteacute, part of the possessions of the Countess 

 of Sarum,was granted toFrancis, Earl of Huntingdon. 

 In the reign of Elizabeth it was held by Gamage : 

 hence it came to the Churchills. John Churchill, 

 gent., compounded for assisting the king's forces at 

 440. His son Winston, born in London, 1620, and 

 admitted at St. James's College, Oxford, in 1636, 

 adhered to the royal cause, for which he suffered 

 severely, being forced to take refuge with his wife 

 Elizabeth at the house of her father, Sir J. Drake, at 

 Ash, Devonshire, and to compound for 446 18s. 

 In 1661 he was chosen member for Weymouth, and 

 soon after fellow of the Eoyal Society. He was author 

 of ' Divi Britannica ; or, Eemarks on the Lives of all 

 the Kings of this Isle ' : (London, 1675). In 1663 he 

 was knighted, and died 1688, leaving his property to 

 his surviving son, John, born at Ashe, 1650, who was 

 afterwards created Duke of Marlborough. The Duke 

 of Marlborough sold this manor and estate to Dr. 

 Wellman, of Poundisford, Somerset; of whose de- 

 scendants it was purchased, in 1839, by James Charles 

 Dale, Esq., the father of myself the present owner. 

 It contains a little more than 800 acres. 



What remains now of the ancient manor-house 

 (called, from the shape of its chimneys, Round- 

 chimneys) is a farm-house inhabited by Mr. Hawkins. 

 From a date on one of the chimneys it appears to 

 have been built between 1590 and 1600. Upon 

 another chimney is a device, perhaps a mason's 



