SUTTON-PLACE, (Surrey) in the p. of Woking, is a noble manor-house built of brick, with a stately gatehouse and high
tower, having at each angle a turret. The window mouldings within the house, and quoins of the walls, are all of baked
white clay, which is as perfect as when it was first set up in the R. of Henry VIII. by Sir Rich. Weston, master of the
court of wards, a gentleman who deserves an honourable mention upon these accounts: He not only brought the water of the
r. Stoke by Guilford to this manor, but was the first that introduced the planting of clover-grass in England from
Flanders; and at the same time brought over the use of locks, turnpikes, and wears for rs.