EASTWELL, (Kent) on the S.W. side of Wye, near Ashford, anciently the manor of a family of that name, and afterwards that
of the Herberts, the Criols, Rokesleys, Poynings, and Piercys Earls of Northumberland, who sold it to Sir Tho. Cheyney and
others; from whom it passed to Sir Chr. Hales, attorney-general to K. Hen. VIII. and Mr. John Colepepper who married his
daughter to Sir Tho. Moyle, by whom the greatest part of that stupendous fabrick was built, which is now, with its fine
parks, the seat of the Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham, to whose family it descended, by the marriage of Sir Tho.
Moyle's daughter.