NEWPORT, (Essex) formerly called Newport-Pond, joins to Debden in the road from Stortford to Walden and Cambridge,and
stands on the r. Grant, or Cam. Here was anciently a Mt. till removed to Walden. The manor was formerly Piers Gaveston's;
then Sir Ralph Warren's; then his nephew, Oliver Cromwel's; and now the E. of Suffolk's. In this p. was the mon. mentioned
at Birchanger, called St. Leonard's-Hos. for the benefit of which a fair was appointed on the 6th of Nov. which is
commonly called Colt-Fair. Here are sold many Welch, and other cattle; and great quantities of saffron, the product of the
neighbouring fields.