ESTON-NESTON, (Northamptonshire) by Towcester, was purchased, in the R. of Hen. VIII. by Rich. Farmer, who had been bred a
merchant of the staple at Calais; but being a zealous papist, and incurring a praemunire, his estate was seized, yet
restored to him in the next R. His grandson George entertained K. Ja. I. and his Q. here, the first time they met in
England. William Ld. Lempster, father to the Earl of Pomfret, pulled down the old family seat here, and caused a new one
to be erected by Inigo Jones. 'Tis a regular fair structure of free-stone, fetched from Helmdon; and 'tis thought that no
seat in Europe has a more magnificent collection of Greek, Roman, and Egyptian statues of white marble, it being the most
ornamental part of the marmora Arondeliana.