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Sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 



Cheveley. 



Death of Sir 



John Carleton, 



Bart. 



Cheveley. 



The Jermyn 

 Family. 



Syberecht's 



Picture 

 of Cheveley. 



Sir John died in London November 7, 1637. He was the eldest 

 son and heir of George Carleton, Esquire, of Holcombe, by 

 Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Sir Robert Brockett, of 

 Brockett Hall, Herts. He inherited, under the will of his uncle 

 Sir Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester, that nobleman's estate 

 at Brightwell, Oxfordshire. He married in February, 1624-25, 

 Anne, daughter of Sir R. Houghton, of Houghton, Lancashire, and 

 relict of Sir John Cotton, Bart., of Landwade, Cambridgeshire, by 

 whom he had one son and two daughters, viz. : George, his heir ; 

 Anne, born at Cheveley, October 29, 1627 ; and Catherine, born at 

 Cheveley in 1630. His widow survived until May 17, 167 1, and 

 was interred in Landwade Church. Sir John's only son. Sir George 

 Carleton, died, unmarried, in 1650, when the baronetcy became 

 extinct. 



The Jermyn Famii.y. 

 During the time the Cheveley estate belonged to the Jermyn 

 family the property was associated with many merry scenes in the 

 merry days of the Merry Monarch. By some mutual arrangement 

 Lady Carleton occupied the Hall, and continued to reside there, 

 except when the Court was at Newmarket, or when it was required 

 by the new owners, until her death in 167 1. In those days royal 

 visits to Cheveley, particularly when the Royal Family was at the 

 Palace, were so frequent and informal as to cause hardly any 

 passing notice. It was about this time Syberecht painted the 

 quaint and beautiful picture of the structure as it then stood— 

 indeed, as it stands re-built to-day. Syberecht was discovered in 

 his native Antwerp by the volatile George ViUiers, 2nd Duke of 

 Buckingham (during his exile in the dismal Interregnum), by 

 whom he was brought to England, where he painted many 

 pastoral views in the style of Wouvermans, and he was even 

 addicted to the white horse, commonly supposed to be the ex- 

 clusive artistic trade mark or peculiarity of his great master. This 

 picture of Cheveley is about eight feet in length by seven feet in 



