156 Leland’s Journey through Wiltshire. 
[Leland then continued his tour through Somerset, Devonshire, 
and Cornwall. Of the Scilly islands he says :—] 
“One Davers, a gentilman of Wilshir, whose chief house is at 
Dauntsey, and Whittington, a gentilman of Giocestershire, be owners 
of Seylley,! but they have scant 40 markes by yere of rentes and 
commodities of it.” [1 19]. 
“« Botreaux, or Boscastle, near Launceston. The Lord Botreaux 
was lord of this toun, a man of an old Cornish lineage and had a 
maner place, a thing, as far as I could heare, of small reputation 
as it is now, far unworthe the name of a castle. The people ther 
caulle it The Courte. One of the Hungrefordes? married with one 
of the heires general of Botreaux: and so Boscastle came to Hun- 
gerford. Then came Boscastle by an heir general of the Hunger- 
fords unto the Lord Hastings. Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, 
and so along the Wilts bank to Freshford Bridge. But this can hardly have 
been his course: for he distinctly says that ‘‘from Farley he rid to Henton 
Grange,” and thence to Midford Bridge. Henton Grange (now Hinton House, 
the residence of the Hon. Mrs. Jones), as well as all the road from Farley to 
Midford, is in the county Somerset. 
The park wall which he speaks of as about a mile beyond Hinton and on his 
right hand, could be no other than the south-west boundary of Hinton Abbey 
grounds. It is clear that he was not very well acquainted with the history of 
the Carthusian House here, as he conjectures the said wall to have been the 
enclosure of the manor of Hatherop, the place originally given to them by 
William Longespee Earl of Salisbury, and afterwards, by his widow Ela, 
exchanged for Hinton; but Hatherop is near Fairford in Gloucestershire. 
At Midford Bridge he would once more touch the county Wilts for a few 
yards, and then immediately enter Somerset again. 
1 “Seilly.” In the 15th century the Scilly islands were held under the 
Crown by the family of Coleshill, of Dulo, Cornwall, at the rent of 50 puffins, 
or 6s. 8d. per annum. In 1484 the islands were returned as worth, in peace- 
able times, 40 shillings; in war, nothing. The heiress of the Coleshills, 
temp. H. ViI., married Sir Renfrew Arundell, of Lambourn, Knight: at which 
time Scilly was considered to be at its lowest value. The heiress of the 
Arundells married, first, Whittington, and, secondly, Sir Edward Stradling, 
then owner of Dauntsey, in North Wilts. Their granddaughter, Anne 
Stradling, brought the Dauntsey estate, with Scilly and the puffins, to Sir John 
Danvers by marriage: and their grandson Silvester Danvers, who died 1552, 
was probably the ‘‘ Davers” mentioned by Leland. 
2 Robert, second Lord Hungerford, died a.p, 1459. 
