40 Sporting and Rural Records of the Clieveley Estate. 



Chevelev. 



Henr)- Jermra 

 Baron Dover. 



Lord Dover 

 and James II. 



Cheveley Hall 

 Looted. 



after he himself came into the estate there was no diminution in 

 the hospitahty or the pleasure attending a visit to it, especially 

 during the race meetings. Unhappily very few years elapsed 

 before the demon of discord played havoc with those gay and 

 joyous scenes. When James II. ascended the throne, the path of 

 his former Master of the Horse was beset with political and (what 

 was worse) sectarian animosity. The relations between the new 

 king and Jermyn became more close and more important, so much 

 so that the latter was now elevated to the peerage, and was 

 invested with trying ministerial functions. 



^^'e have now to do with Henr}' Jermyn, Lord Dover, 

 the politician and trusted partisan of James II. Partly in 

 consequence of his religious belief, and principally by his 

 adherence to the cause of James 11., Lord Dover became 

 obnoxious to the faction of the Prince of Orange, who were very 

 aggressive in Cambridgeshire towards the end of the year 1688. 

 On December 12th the news reached London that the "mobile 

 at Cambridge were up," and had gone to meet " their breathern 

 of Bur)' St. Edmonds upon Newmarket Heath, with the design 

 to visit Lord Dover's house at Cheveley." The result of this 

 "visit" transpired a few days after, when it became known that 

 " multitude having demolished Lord Dover's chappel, at his 

 house at Cheveley, and torn down all the furniture and burnt it, 

 but having some money given them, were restrained from spoiling 

 the house ; they then marched to Dr. Templer's, at Balsam, in 

 search of the Bishop of St. David's, where they found his 

 lordship in a disguise, and carried him to Linton. The next 

 day they mounted him on a paltry horse without a saddle, and 

 having only a small cord for a bridle, and so led him in a 

 triumphant manner to Cambridge, where they obliged the 

 magistrates to secure his lordship in the castle." 



When this alarming news was confirmed in London, the con- 

 sternation at the Court was intense. No one knew better than the 

 king that such a manifestation, enacted at the sumptuous seat of 



