sporting and Rnrnl Records of the Cheveley Estate. '■'> 



Edward I. heir to the rest of the barony. He died in 1323. 

 The manor was subsequently held by the families of Loveday, 

 Ormesby, and Pulteney. In 1349 William de Pulteney held the 

 estate by service of a Knight's Fee and right of Free Warren, 

 by which it is evident the sporting rights, even in those days, 

 were decidedly important. 



Cheveley. 



Early 



and JMediajval 



Period. 



The adjoining manor of Ditton was given in exchange for 

 Cheveley by Canute the Great. After the Norman Conquest 

 it was held by William I., and was farmed by William de Nowers, 

 as recorded in Doomsday Book. I^ater on the manor was divided 

 and two new manors were formed there — one called Ditton- 

 Valenceand the other Ditton-Camois — which were successively and 

 collaterally held by the families of de Valence, Earls of Pembroke 

 and de Camois, of which latter family was the famous Lord Camois, 

 who commanded the left wing of the English army at Agincourt, 

 and for his valiant services on that occasion was made a Knight 

 of the Garter. In the reign of Edward III. Ditton Camois was 

 held by William de Pulteney (1349) by the service ofa pair of gilt 

 spurs. The manor was then worth f^io per annum. 



William de Valence, Earl of Pembroke (who was half brother 

 on the spindle side to Henry III.), was a valiant soldier and a 

 mighty hunter. Sir William Dugdale records that when this Earl 

 was on one of his sporting expeditions he entered a park 

 belonging to the Bishop of Ely, and there, after hunting without 

 leave or licence, went to the Bishop's manor house, and, finding 

 nothing to drink but ordinary beer, broke open the buttery doors.* 

 After all his companions had drunk their fills, they pulled the 

 spigots out of the vessels, and so departed. This Lord Pembroke 

 was killed in the French wars, and his remains were conveyed to 



* About the year 1350 William Bateman (then Bishop of Norwich) imposed a 

 most humiliating penance on Lord Morley (a great favourite of Edward III.) for 

 hunting without permission in the episcopal park. Bareheaded and barefooted the 

 dejected baron went in repentant progress through the streets of Norwich with a 

 lighted taper, which, kneeling, he offered at the bishop's throne. 



Ditton. 



Ditton 



Camois. 



Ditton 

 Valence. 



The Earls of 

 Pembroke. 



