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1549 Huntley, or Honiley, Henry, gent., Wallingfourd, Berks. F. 44 Populwell
1557 „ Henrye, gent.. Box well, Gloucester 38 Wrastley

1 501 „ tHunteley, Hugh, Duxton, Monmouth fo. 26 regr. F. at Canterbury
1546 „ Hugh, liadnock, Monmouth ; Gloucester 22 Alen

1496 ,, Hunteley, John. Bledon, Somerset 31 Vox

1544 ,, Hunteley, syr Richard, prest, Segrey, Wilts. 21 Pynnyng

1^52 „ Robert, St. John Walbroke, etc., London ; Waltham, Essex

F. 34 Powell
1494 ,, Hunteley, William, Churcheham, Gloucester 9 Vox

1504 Huntlow, Huntelow, John, Henley on Thames, Oxford 18 Holgrave

1544 ,, Thomas, St. Mary Botehawe, etc., London; Hayes, Kent 13 Pynnyng
1552 Huntlowe, Baseley als.^ Katherine, [London?] sentence only F. 2 Tashe

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Domesday records Boxewell as a portion of the posses-
sions of Gloucester abbey, and taxed at five hides. The
family of Huntley were either possessed of a joint pro-
perty with the abbey, or mesne lords under it, for many
generations. In the taxation of Pope Nicholas about 1 29 1 ,
the abbey was charged for three carucates of lands, valued
at seven shillings each, and a mill. John Huntley, Esq.
of Standish, was certainly a lessee under the abbey, as
appears by a grant, dated 1533. A moiety of lands in
Boxwell, Laterton, and Wast, belonging anciently to
the abbey of Glouc. and afterwards to Sir Walter Raleigh,
till his attainder, was by the crown granted to Vanlore
and Blake, the former of whom was lord of the manor in
1 60S . George Huntley was purchaser of it in 1612: from

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261- Pie IJlatoiy of the County of Cl<ntfu>tcr.

whom it has descended to Richard Huntley, clerk, A. M,
with the estates in Boxwell.

An ancient manorial house near the church, now mo-
dernized and elegantly improved, has been the residence
of the family from the original purchase at the beginning
of the nth century.

In the dining parlour, the present proprietor has judi-
ciously preserved a handsome chimney-piece, erected
probably by his ancestor when it first came into the fa-
mily, and finished with Corinthian columns in the best stile
of workmanship. The arms of the family are among the
ornaments with which it is embellished.

Leland retains a tradition of a nunnery in this place,
which was destroyed by the Danes. Foundation-stones
which have been discovered, fix the sciteof the building
in a most romantic valley between the church and the hill.

Near the road from Gloucester to Bath, on the west
side is a tumulus, called West Barrow, of considerable
dimensions. On its being opened, more than a century
since, three small vaults were discovered, in which were
urns filled with ashes, some bones, but no coins or other
Roman antiquities. Barrows, it has been before observed,
were, with very few exceptions, British; and if any Ro-
man coins happen to be found in them, it can only be in-
ferred that they were the burial places of some British of-
ficers who served in the Roman army.

In the. warren were lately discovered a small quantity of
Roman coins, some human bones, and stones discoloured
as by fire.

The deadly night-shade (solatium dulcamara), hen-
bane (hyoscamus nigcrj, hemlock (conium maculalum).
wild thyme (i hymns s-rpyl/umj, marjoram (origanum
y and some other plants, grow in the Barren.

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BOXWELL,

Three miles from \\ niton, has a fine boxwood, about forty
acres in extent, probably the largest in the Kingdom. In it is
a well dedicated to the Virgin Mary ; a tradition exists of a
nunnery here before the Conquest. The old Manor House was
the court house of the Abbots of Gloucester, under whom the
Huutleys were lessees, and purchased the freehold of Sir Wal-
ter Raleigh, to whom it was granted by Queen Bess; during
the C'ivil War it was frequently the resting place of Prince




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Rupert. The church is an old stone building in the Marly Kng-
lish style with campanile tower, there is also a very curious
Early English font. Leightertou is a hamlet and chapclry of
Box well, here is a barrow opened by Matthew Huntley, Esquire
about the year 1700, with three vaults, in each of which was
found an earthen urn, containing burnt human bones ; there is
also a smaller one at Boxw ell, whereon is a large upright stone
above six feet high.

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