sporting mid Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 



Chf.veley. 



Military 

 Services. 

 1584. 



Elizabeth. 

 1585. 



Charles I. 

 1620. 



thoroughlie furnyshed according to y' sedule your LL : sent 

 enclosed \v"' your Ires, at or before the daye prescribed 

 vnto vs." 



The Commissioners then beg to inform the Privy Council 

 that although H.M. levy in this county does not exceed 800 

 men, with arms, shot, and weapons, it was nevertheless a great 

 burden for a shire so small to bear, " where the people lyve 

 in contynneal toyle w"' great charge & lytle gayne." 



In July, 1585, Queen Elizabeth wrote to the Commissioners 

 of Musters for the County of Cambridge directing them to levy 

 and arm a certain number of able men in that county, for 

 service in the Low Countries, in a special expedition against 

 Sluys and the port towns on the coast of Flanders. This 

 levy was to be at a minimum rate of £,'^ \os. per man — 

 " whereof 40.^. shall serve for the provision of apparel * and 

 30^. for arms by which one means bothe the one and the other 

 shall by those that are appointed to take care thereof be so 

 prepared and put in readiness as the soldiers shall receive 

 their apparel at the place of embarking, and their arms entirely 

 delivered on the other side of the sea where the troops are to 

 be landed." Unfortunately, the details of this levy and muster 

 have not been preserved. 



According to the certificate of Sir Thomas Sandys, Sir 

 John Carleton [of Cheveley], Knights and Baronetts ; Sir John 

 Cutts, Sir Edward Hynde, and Sir Simon Steward, Knights, 

 Deputy Lieutenants to the Right Hon. the Earl of Suffolk, 

 Lord Lieutenant of this County of Cambridge, made the sixth 

 day of October, .\.D. 1629; it appears from this muster that 

 the number of men (infantryy was 1000, who were armed with 

 461 corslets and 539 muskets. There were also cavalrv, namely, 

 50 carbineers, and 50 dragoons, under the command of Mr. 

 Robert Millecent, Captain. 



The details of this muster are not given in the several 

 * Uniform. 



