WEDGNOCK, (Warwickshire) on the S. side of Kenilworth, has a spacious park, the oldest in England, next to that at
Woodstock. It was made by Henry de Newburgh, the first Earl of Warwick after the Conquest, and enlarged by the succeeding
Earls, who enjoyed it till coming to the crown in the R. of Q. Mary by the attainder of John Dudley, she devised it for 30
years to Henry Jernegan for 10 marks a year; and Q. Eliz. passed the inheritance of it, with the manor-house called
Goodrest-Lodge, to Fulk Grevil, Esq; and his heirs, who have since enioyed it, with the title of Lds. Brook. The said
lodge was built by Tho. Beauchamp, the 2d Earl of Warwick of that name, and so called because some of the Countesses of
Warwick chose to lie-in here, to avoid the too great hurry of visitors.