as 'Bushell's Wells' or the ‘Enstone Marvels’. There is a detailed description in Robert Plot’s Natural History of Oxfordshire (1677), including some engraved illustrations. They were demolished in 1836. In the 1630s Charles I paid Bushell an unexpected visit there. On a subsequent royal visit (on 23 August, 1636), the rock was presented to Queen Henrietta Maria in a kind of masque with music by Henry Lawes, for which Bushell himself provided some verse. A fictionalised account of the masque is included in the historical novel Wife to Mr Milton (1942) by Robert Graves. In 1635 Bushell was granted a soap monopoly; in January 1637 he had the grant of the royal mines in Wales. References Sources External links Enstone Parish Council Enstone Village Combined Chase Benefice calendar Civil parishes in Oxfordshire Villages in Oxfordshire West Oxfordshire District