WITHIALL, (Hertfordshire) N. of Buntingford, and 2 m. W. of Anstey, bel. a good while, by a grant of Will. the Conq. to
the family of Scales, from whom it went by marriage, in the R. of Edward III. to Anth. de Widvil, afterwards Earl Rivers,
who forfeiting it to the crown, it continued there till Hen. VIII. granted it to Geo. Canon and John Gill. The latter's
descendant, Sir George Gill, being possessed of the whole in the R. of James I. sold it to John Goulston, a prothonorary
of the common-pleas, whose descendant, Richard, made the park here.