LYDDINGTON, and its Park, (Rutland) bet. Uppingham and Rockingham, is the ancient manor-place of the Bps. of Lincoln, who had a palace, with a Mt. here, till Hen. Holbech, the Bp. in the R. of Edw. VI. gave thia manor to that K. who granted it to Gregory Ld. Cromwell, and his wife, for their lives, at the yearly rent of 14 l. odd money; but the reversion was granted to Will. Cecil Ld. Burleigh, father to him who was by K. James I. created Earl of Exeter; in whose family, we are told, it still remains. The episcopal palace here was, in 1602, converted by Thomas Ld. Burleigh, then Ld. of the manor, into an hos. which he endowed for a warden, 12 poor men, and 2 women, and gave it the name of Jesus-Hospital.