NEWINGTON, (Kent) near Hith and Folkston, bel. formerly to the Belhouse family, and was from them called Belhouse, but
went by marriage to the Knevits; from whom it passed to the Cloptons, who sold it to Thomas Ld. Cromwell; by whose
attainder it fell to the crown, and was given by Q. Mary to Edward Ld. Clinton, who conveyed it to Herdson, and he to
Brockman.