BOSTALL, (Buckinghamshire) N. of Bernwood-forest, on the b. of Oxfordshire. Nigel, one of the foresters, having killed a
wild boar in it, had a piece of land given him here by the K. called Deer-Hide; on which he built the house, called
Bostall. Will. the Conq. confirmed the land to him, to hold it by the livery of a Horn, which tenure is preserved to this
day. This manor came by female heirs in several descents to the Lewis's of Wales. In the civil wars, the royalists made it
a garrison, which they defended so well that the besiegers left it. 'Tis now the estate of Sir John Aubrey, Bt. on whom it
has been settled by fine.