TUNSTALL, (Kent) near Sittingbourn, and 2 m. S. of Milton, was sold in the R. of Henry IV. by Sir Rob. Knolles, to Sir
William Crowmer, Ld. mayor of London, from whose posterity it went by marriage to Sir John Hales, and descended to Sir
Edward, who built a fine seat here, and from him to Sir John, the present possessor. In Jan. 1738, several hundred broad
pieces of gold were found in this manor, by a poor boy rambling in a coppice, who not knowing what they were, and playing
with them at a farmer's near Canterbury, the farmer got possession of them, but not being able to keep the secret, he
refunded 624 of the broad-pieces for the use of the crown, though Sir John Hales claimed the whole, it being thought that
his ancestor had concealed them there during the civil wars.