10 sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 



Cheveley. According to a certificate of the Justices of the Peace for 



~~~ the Co. Cambridge (who were ordered by the Privy Council to 



1631. hold a supply of corn, &c., and to set forth the quantity and price 



Licensing and qJ ^[^g game within the several Hundreds) it appears by the said 

 certificate, dated March 29, in the seventh year of H.M. reign 

 (a.d. 1631) that, in obedience of the said order, they certified 

 having made a sufficient provision of corn for that year, and 

 confirmed the same by the assent of the inhabitants, and for the 

 better continuance thereof suppressed all malting for the present 

 (the necessities of the times enforcing them thereto) ; and like- 

 wise bound all ale-house keepers in new recognizances to utter 

 or sell no beer under two quarts for a " pennie." The Justices 

 of the Peace likewise by their warrants raised wards by days and 

 watches by nights for the apprehending of rogues, vagabonds, and 

 other loose and wandering persons that so they may receive 

 condign punishment according to the statute in that kind 

 provided. They also " bound " apprentices in the said Hundreds 



Triplow Heath, June 10, 1647, sa3's : " It was from this camp on Triplow Heath — 

 till within living memory the same wide, open e.xpanse of turf around the ' Nine 

 Wells ' that was then — that Cornet Jo}xe set forth on that memorable ride to 

 Ilolmbv House which gave the King's person into the power of the army. Already 

 surrendered by the Scots into the hands of Parliamentary Commissioners, he was 

 now taken into other keeping by authority of that other Commission, ' written in fine 

 legible characters ' — the Cornet's stalwart troopers. From Holmby he was conveyed 

 h Cheveley, in our country, where Fair/ax and Cromwell ' waited on ' him, and 

 arranged for his removal to Newmarket, where, as well as at Royston, his father had 

 set up a hunting-bo.x. The natural road from Holmby would have been through 

 Cambridge, where the streets were decked with green boughs and ' whole rose 

 bushes ' to receive him. But fear of popular demonstration amid these May Term 

 gaieties caused his escort to carry him round by Trumpington, where we hear ot 

 ' much preparation for his Majesty by sweeping the streets, cutting doune boughes, 

 and preparing of benefires ' [bonfires]. At Newmarket he was kept under careful 

 guard." . . . We are unable to endorse the accuracy of the words italicised in 

 the above extract. It seems the rev. author has mistaken Cheveley for Childerley, 

 where Charles I. was brought after his seizure by the Parliamentary forces at 

 Holmby Hall, Northamptonshire. Childerley is twenty miles from Cheveley. It is 

 very probable the King was at Cheveley occasionally at that time, but certainly not 

 under the circumstances above mentioned. See " The History of Newmarket," 

 vol. II., pp. 49-60, where all the details of the detention of Charles I. at Newmarket, 

 in June, 1647, are given. 



