[5] The chronicle writer Edward Hall describes a banquet and masque at "Newhall, otherwyse called Beaulieu" in September 1519.

[8] On 23 July 1527 Henry's court arrived at Beaulieu on his summer progress, staying, unusually, for over a month in the company of a large number of nobles and their wives, including Anne Boleyn's father who had been created Viscount Rochford, the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, the Marquess of Exeter, the Earls of Oxford, Essex, and Rutland, and Viscount Fitzwalter.

It was here that Henry devised a scheme to allow him to cohabit with his intended successor of Queen Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, by obtaining a Papal bull that declared Henry's marriage to Catherine invalid, effectively allowing him to commit bigamy by claiming he was technically unmarried in the first place.

[9] In October 1533, the daughter of Queen Catherine, Mary, and her companion Margaret Douglas, who had been staying at Beaulieu for some time, were evicted.

[11] After Anne Boleyn was beheaded and Henry married Jane Seymour, he was convinced by his new wife to bring his daughters back to court.

[12] Henry VIII gave Newhall to Mary as a bequest in his will, and it was her home during the reign of her brother Edward VI.

[13] Queen Elizabeth I granted the estate in 1573 to Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, who seems to have largely rebuilt the north wing.

Soon after the north range was completed, Thomas installed Elizabeth's coat of arms above the main entrance which is still visible today.

[14] The 3rd Earl's will details his furnishings, mentioning rooms at New Hall including the royal presence chamber hanged with tapestry of the "Dance of Death".

Cosimo de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, visited in 1669 and a member of his retinue produced a view of the house.

[20] Benjamin Hoare acquired the property in 1713, but it was in a poor state when purchased in 1737 by John Olmius, elevated to the peerage as Baron Waltham in 1762, who demolished and rebuilt much of the former palace.

John was succeeded in 1762 by his son Drigue who died childless in 1787, aged 40, when New Hall devolved on his sister, the Honourable Elizabeth.