The village of Sawston stands in the hundred of Whittlesford, and deanery of Camps. There are four manors in this parish--Pyrotts, Dernford, Dale, and Huntington--all now the property of Mr. Huddleston. The manor of Pyrotts continued until the year 1329 in the immediate descendants of Pirotus, who held it under Eudo Fitzherbert, Steward of the Household to William the Conqueror. Sir Edmund de la Pole died, seised of this manor and Dernford, in 1419. Mr. Huddleston’s ancestor came into possession of them--which had descended from the De la Poles through the Ingeldesthorps to the noble family of Neville--by his marriage with the daughter of the Marquis Montagu. The manors of Dale and Huntington were purchased by Sir Edmund Huddleston before the year 1580; the manor of Dale, or Le Dale, had been in the Saliston, or Sawston, family, who held it under the manor of Pyrotts by the service of finding an armed soldier whenever the owner of that manor should attend the King to the wars. Near the entrance to the park, there formerly stood an ancient cross, the shaft and pedestal of which alone remain. It forms the subject of our initial letter. [Illustration] The church of Sawston, which abuts on the park, appears to have been built about the thirteenth century; like most of the churches of Cambridgeshire, it possesses a fine open porch. Sir John Huddleston, who spent the greater part of his fortune in the service of Philip of Spain after Mary’s death, lies buried in the chancel here. The following inscription is engraved on a brass plate placed on the tomb, represented in the annexed woodcut. “Here lyeth entombed the bodye of Sʳ John Huddleston, Knighte, vice-chamberlayne unto King Phylipe, and captaine of his garde; and one of Queen Marye’s most honorable pryvie Councell, who died yᵉ fourthe day of Novembr, in the yeare of our Lorde God 1557.” [Illustration: BRERETON HALL, CHESHIRE.] BRERETON HALL, CHESHIRE. [Illustration: B]RERETON.--This Mansion, designated by Webb “the stately House of Brereton,” with which the name of Elizabeth, our maiden Queen, is much associated, stands in a beautiful green vale, fertilized by the little river Croco. It is within five miles of Congleton, and three of Sandbach. The plain of Cheshire displays great richness and exuberance in this neighbourhood; and although “evil times” have fallen upon the ancient demesne of Brereton--the park having been stripped of its old familiar trees--it has recently resumed a character of graceful serenity and luxuriance.