Totnes, April 18. 1850.
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_The Camp in Bulstrode Park_.--Is there any published account of
this camp having been opened? It is well worth the examination of
a competent antiquary.... It is not even alluded to in Mr. Jesse's
_Favourite Haunts_, nor does that gentleman appear to have visited the
interesting village of "Hedgerley" (anciently _Hugely_), or Jordans,
the Quakers' Meeting-house, and burial-place of Penn, between
Beaconsfield and Chalfont. Chalfont was anciently written Chalfhunt,
and is by the natives still called Charffunt; and Hunt is a very
common surname in this parish: there was, however, Tobias Chalfont,
Rector of Giston, who died 1631. "Chal" appears to be a common prefix.
In Chalfont (St. Peter's) is an inscription to _Sir_ Robert Hamson,
Vycar, alluded to in Boutell's _Brasses_. In a cupboard under the
gallery staircase is a copper helmet, which, prior to the church
having been beautified in 1822, was suspended on an iron bracket with
a _bit of rag_, as it then looked, to the best of my memory. I have
heard that it belonged to the family of Gould of Oak End, extinct.