sporting and Rural Records of the Chevcley Estate. 



Cheveley. 



Early 



and Mediaeval 



Period. 



The Barons 

 Peche. 



After the Norman Conquest the estate was held by King 

 William I., and was let by Knight's Service to various tenants. 



Hamon Baron Peche was appointed High Sheriff of 

 Cambridgeshire by Henry II. in 1164, and continued to hold 

 that office until June, 1 166, at which time, upon the assess- 

 ment of the aid for marrying the King's daughter, he certified 

 his Knight's Fees in Cambridgeshire to be seven and a twelfth 

 part (/(' ventri feoffamento, as also a half, third, and fourth 

 part de novo .- and in Suffolk to be eleven and a half and two 

 fourth parts ; upon which, four years afterwards, he rendered the 

 King, at a mark for each fee, -£12 \\s. He died in 1 1 go, and was 

 succeeded by his son Gilbert, who, in 11 95, on the occasion of 

 the collection of the tribute for the redemption of King Richard I., 

 paid :£\<^ and 2od. for the Knight's Fees of his paternal inheritance, 

 and 2^ marks for those which descended to him through his 

 mother. He died about the year 12 13, when Cheveley and 

 the rest of his estates were committed by King John to the 

 custody of Hugh de Bones, during the minority of Hamon, his 

 son and heir, who, in 1223, obtained the precept of Henry III. 

 for laying scutage upon all his own tenants by military service 

 relative to the expedition to Wales. In 1241 he died whilst 

 making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and his remains were 

 conveyed to the Priory of Barnewell, Cambridgeshire, and there 

 interred. His son and heir, Gilbert, died in 1291, and was 

 succeeded by Gilbert, last Baron Peche, who attended Edward I. 

 in the expedition of 1 294 to Gascony. He was summoned to 

 the successive Parliamentary sessions as a Baron of the Realm, 

 from 2gth December, 1299, to 3rd November, 1306, and again 

 by Edward II., to the session assembled at York 14th November, 

 1322. He married, first, Maude de Hastings, by whom he had 

 a son and heir, Gilbert, who, however, was not summoned to 

 Parliament, nor is any account given of their descendants ; and, 

 secondly, Joane, daughter of Simon de Grey, and to his children 

 by that lady he left the greatest part of his property, making 



