The Vale-Royal of England.

cay, and divers Lands thereof, told and dipterled.

Eastward hereunto advanced to the view of many miles every
way, lifts up it self that flately Fabrick of the Hall of Crew,
which for many years aforegoing, had drooped and fallen in much
decay, as it were lingring and longing for one that might raile up
that name and Seat; for so Mr. Cambden hath in these words, A
place inhabited in old time by a notable Family of that name, which ha-
ving been the possession, for some Ages, of the Falshurts, men of great
Revenues in these parts, is now again made happy by the purchase of Sir
Randall Crew Knight, one of the Kings Majesties Sergeants at Law,
and one of the most Reverend and Learned Sages of the Law in these
dayes:

The Prospect of Crew Hall.

Who hath brought into these remote parts a modell of that ex-
cellent form of building which is now grown to a degree beyond
the building of old times for loftineſſe, tightlineſſe, and pleafant
habitation, as in and near unto London, we fee many in this Age
of ours.

The next neighbour yet further Eastward unto this is Hasling-
ton, being an handsome street in the Rode way, and adorned with
a Chappel that belongs to the Parish of Berthomley; but that which
is the chief ornament of this Lordship, is the Seat of that Family
of the Vernons defcended from thofe Barons of the name of Ship-
broke,

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