We pass over a down where is a Cross that directs three wayes York, London and Oatly, and here we Come in Sight of a Gentlemans house that stands finely on a hill in a parke, pretty high with fine groves about it. A little farther when we are pass’d the water att Wansford we enter Ruttlandshire w^{ch} seems more woody than y^e others. Stamfford town is as fine a built town all of stone as may be seen; its on the side of a hill w^{ch} appears very fine in the approach. Severall very good Churches with high Spires and towers very ornamentall, its not very Large, but much ffiner than Cambridge, and in its view has severall good houses. On the Right hand of Stamfford is a house of M^r Neals in a pretty neate parke pailed in; y^e house not very big but Lookes well. On the Side of y^e hill over against Stamfford and on the Left hand over against the town Stands My Lord of Exeters Burly house, Eminent for its Curiosity. The Situation is the finest I ever saw, on the Edge of the hill and severall Rows of trees of severall acres about it quite to the Road. It stands in a very fine parke w^{ch} is full of deer and fine Rows of trees. On Either side a very broad Glide or visto that Lookes finely to y^e River and to the adjacent hills, a distance, both with fine woods. The town of Stamfford appears very fine on the Left hand and most noble woods on the Right hand. The house Looks very nobly; y^e Garden very fine within one another w^{th} Lower and higher walls deck’d with all Sorts of trees and Greens; very fine Gravell walks and Grass squaires w^{th} Statues and fine Grass walks, dwarfs and all sorts of Green trees and Curious things: very fine fountaines, there is one in the middle of the Garden thats just to y^e Middle also of the house, that is of an exceeding great size. There is a fine vineyard, Warren and Groves w^{ch} makes its prospects very delightfull. You enter a large Court walled, thence to a Space of Ground pretty Large, Encompass’d round w^{th} a little wall of a yard High of free Stone very ffine wrought, on which are to be Iron railes and spires, that was not ffinish’d nor the space paved which is design’d to be of broad Stone: all before the house the little breast wall is in a Compass Like a halfe Moone.