The demesne of Tossbury (by Camden written Tossbery) was anciently a grant in feoffment to the College of Physicians by King John.

" "If his demesne be in England, 'tis but right he should become as far as possible a genuine Anglo-Saxon, and if I can turn him, I will.

But the whole demesne was the fairy ground of my childhood; and its presiding genius was grandpapa.