It is seated against the North,
on the declining of a hill, in the midst of a Deere park, neere a
narrow entrance, thorow which the salt water breaketh vp into
the country, to shape the greatest part of the hauen. The house is
builded square, with a round turret at eche end, garretted on the top,
& the hall rising in the mids aboue the rest, which yeeldeth a
stately sound, as you enter the same. In Summer, the opened
casements admit a refreshing coolenes: in Winter, the two closed
doores exclude all offensiue coldnesse: the parlour and dining
chamber giue you a large & diuersified prospect of land & sea;
to which vnderly S. Nicholas Iland, Plymmouth fort, & the townes of
Plymmouth, Stonehouse, Milbrook, & Saltajh. It is supplyed with
a neuer-fayling spring of water, and the dwelling stored with wood,
timber, fruit, Deere, and Conies. The ground abundantly answereth
a housekeepers necessities, for pasture, arable and meadow, and is
replenished with a kinde of stone, seruing both for building, lyme,
and marle.
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