K) Sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 



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DiTTON side, who deserved special prizes. In May, 1522, he was appointed 



ALENCE. ).g attend Cardinal Wolsey and the officers of State to receive the 

 Sir Giles Capel Emperor Charles V. on his arrival at Dover. He seems to have 

 longed for active service, as in the ensuing autumn he was 

 appointed to command the Maria Gadalope frigate of 140 tons. 

 There were, however, few opportunities to indulge his martial 

 inclinations until the Northern Rebellion broke out in 1536, when he 

 raised two subsidies of 15:) men-at-arms from his estates in Essex 

 and Herts. This rising being soon suppressed, Sir Giles appears 

 to have principally given his attention to sporting and rural affairs. 

 He was High Sheriff of Essex and Herts in 1528 and 1537, M.P. 

 for Herts in 1534, and was a J. P. of Essex and a Commissioner to 

 collect the King's subsidies in that county. He appears to have 

 almost withdrawn from the Court in 1 534, as he let his London 

 mansion to the Ambassador of Charles V. Nevertheless, we find 

 him officiating at the christening of Edward, Prince of Wales 

 (October 15, 1537), and at the reception of Anne of Cleves, at 

 Greenwich, in January, 1540. At his death, Sir Giles was 

 succeeded by his son, Sir Henry Capel, of Rainse Hall, from 

 whom descend the Capels, Earls of Essex. 



According to survey made in the eighteenth year of the reign 

 of Henry VIII., it was found that the manor of Cheveley and the 

 manor of Ditton Camois about that time had been the jointure of 

 Alice Cotton, late wife of Sir Robert Cotton, Knight ; that John 

 Cotton, brother of Thomas Cotton, son and heir of Sir Robert 

 Cotton, Knight, was thirteen years of age ; that the manor of 

 Cheveley and other lands, with their appurtenances, was worth 

 ^,^25 per annum ; and that the manor of Ditton Camois, with the 

 appurtenances, was held by Knight's ser\ice, and was worth ;^24 

 a year. 



In the seventeenth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth a 

 suit was instituted in the Court of Chancery by Sir John Cotton, 

 Knight, of Landwade, against Thomas Stutvill, Esquire, of 

 Dalham, co. Suffolk, relating to a piece of " heath ground " in the 



Cheveley. 



Ditton 

 Camois, 



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