sporting and Rural Rcconh of tl'<-' Cheveley Estate. !) 



Hundreds within the county; it is only classified under the east Cheveley. 

 and west side of the shire, and the Isle of Ely. Military 



By a subsequent muster (which is undated) it appears Services, 



there were no defaulters when the latter was taken. 



On the 26th of March, 1639, the Council of War at London Charles I. 

 wrote to the Lord Lieutenant of the Co. Cambridge, or in his 30- 



absence to the Deputy Lieutenants there, directing attention to 

 H.M. orders for sending 1000 trained soldiers of that countv to 

 Gravesend, to be there by the ensuing 8th of April. The Council 

 of War were now, by H.M. command, to require the said Deputy 

 Lieutenants to take order, that of the said number there be sent 

 20 sergeants and 20 drummers, together with their halberts and 

 drums. And for the more orderly embarking of the men the 

 Deputy Lieutenants were enjoined to consider how long before 

 the 8th of April it would be requisite for the officers who were 

 to command them to be at the port, to take charge of them, 

 and to prevent their committing disorders in the country. 

 The Deputy Lieutenants were to take special care that the 

 arms sent were to be very good and complete as these were 

 intended to be duly restored to the county at the end of the 

 service. 



\\. the time the Civil War was imminent, Charles L issued a Loyal 



proclamation to all loyal subjects to take up arms in his behalf, and 

 to place themselves under the leaders appointed by him. The 

 Parliament, on the other side, called out the county militia, and 

 ordered every parish to send its quota to the ranks. Every 

 incumbent was required to find one man, fully equipped, for 

 the muster. At Cheveley the minister read the King's com- 

 mission only, refused to take the covenant, and declined to send 

 a man-at-arms to the muster of the Parliamentary forces. For 

 this he was deprived of the benefice, and an adherent of the 

 other party inducted inhis place.* 



* The Rev. Edward Conybeare, in " A History of Cambridgeshire '' (London, 

 1897), page 224, in referring to the concentration of the Parliamentar)- forces on 



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Chevele\'. 



