sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 37 



With a brief allusion to the fruit and game, which evidently 

 retained the reputation it acquired in the reign of Henry VIII., 

 as we find those luxuries were sent every season from Cheveley to 

 Somerset House for the table of the Dowager Queen, by whom 

 they were highly appreciated, this part of the subject must be 

 brought to a close. Lord St. Albans died January 4, 1683, and 

 on the loth of that month was buried in the south side of the 

 chancel of the church at Rushbrook. It may, perhaps, be 

 interesting to note that because he was shrouded in linen contrary 

 to the Act for burying in woollen only, a warrant was issued by a 

 justice of the peace, by virtue of which 50.J. was paid to the 

 informer, and 50.?. to the poor of the parish, upon the Sunday 

 next following.* 



We now come to the career of Henry Jermyn, the favourite 

 nephew of Henry, Earl of St. Albans, by whom he was left the 

 Cheveley estate. He was next brother to Thomas, second Baron 

 Jermyn, and was himself elevated to the peerage May 13, 1685, as 

 Baron Jermyn of Dover, co. Kent. He was born in 1636, died at 

 Cheveley April 6, 1708, and was buried in the Franciscan 

 monastery at Bruges. Little is known of him until the Restoration, 

 when he became a prominent personage at the Court of 

 St. James's, where he was a great favourite, and soon acquired 

 notoriety by his gallantries and prowess as a horseman. He was 

 appointed Master of the Horse to James, Duke of York, and in 

 this capacity presided with consummate ability over the Duke's 



* By the provision of the statute, 24 Charles II., c. 3, passed in the year 1672, 

 entitled " An Act for burying in Woollen," it was enacted that from and after 

 August ist in that year no person or persons shall be buryed in any "shiit 

 shift sheete or shroud or any thing whatsoever made or mingled with flax 

 hemp silke haire gold or silver or in any stuffe or thing other than what is 

 made of sheepes wooll onely or to be putt into any coffin lined or faced with 

 any sort of cloath or stuffe or any other thing whatsoever that is made of any 

 maieriall but sheeps wooll onely " upon the forfeiture of £1 recoverable on the 

 goods and chattels of the person or persons so buried one moiety of which 

 shall be to the use and benefit of the poor of the parish and the other moiety 

 to the informer. This Act was further extended and confirmed by the 

 30 Charles II., c. 3. 



Cheveley. 



Newmarket 

 Palace. 



Henry Jermyn 

 Baron Dover. 



Appointed 



Master of the 



Horse to the 



Duke of York. 



