46 Sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 



Chevkley. field, an adjutant, Ulick Bourke, a chaplin, 



Dr. William Starkey, a chirurgeon, Pierre 



Lord Dover's r- j j • ^ j • vu 



Loudroy, and six troops and a maior with- 

 Militarv _, . f . , , 



„ ■ out a troop. This regiment was disbanded 



Services. _ . 



in the following year, when Lord Dover 



was appointed Captain of the newly 



raised 4th troop of Life Guards. 



1685, June 20. Appointed Captain of an independent troop of horse. 



1686, May 22. ,, Captain of the Fourth Troop of Life Guards. 



1687, November. ,, Captain of the Fourth Troop of Life Guards. 



Lieutenants : Patrick Sarsfield, Richard 

 Lord Colchester. Cornets and Guydons : 

 Lord Charles Hamilton, cornet ; James 

 Griflfin, guydon. Quarter - Master : 

 Henry Morgan. Brigadiers : Michael 

 Steddams, George Blount, John Tomkins, 

 Ambrose Cave. Chaplin : Dr. William 

 Starkey. Chirurgeon : Pierre Coudroy. 

 Marshal to the four troops : Petei 

 Smith. Adjutant to the four troops : 

 William Oglethorpe. 



Thomas Panton was an intrepid gamester, and notorious in London and 

 Newmarket. Ulic Bourke was a scion of the Clanricarde family, and adhered 

 to the Jacobite party. Patrick Sarsfield was frequently a guest at Cheveley. 

 On the occasion of the second great fire at Newmarket, during the .Spring 

 Meeting of 1683, when many aristocratic persons sought refuge at Cheveley, 

 Sarsfield eloped with Lady Cherbury. He was created by James IL, in 

 February, 1691, Earl of Lucan, Viscount TuUy, and Baron of Rosebery. He 

 served through the Irish campaign, in which he had only a subordinate 

 command, and was frequently successful in his movements, which were not 

 supported as they deserved by his superior officers. After the battle of 

 Aughrim he entered the service of Louis XIV., by whom he was raised to the 

 rank of a Lieutenant-General in the French Army, and made a Knight of the 

 Order of Saint Esprit. In the spring of 1692 a camp was formed on the 

 coast of Normandy and placed under Sarsfield's command, where all the Irish 

 brigades and other troops were assembled with the intention of making a final 

 attempt to subjugate England and to restore James II. to his throne. But this 

 intention was frustrated by the fleet of Admiral Russell, of Chippenham (whom 

 Sarsfield must frequently have met at Newmarket), which, after several days' 

 fighting, defeated and destroyed the French Fleet off La Hague, consequently 

 the projected expedition was abandoned. In April, 1693, Sarsfield received his 

 marshal's baton, but did not long enjoy his new honours, he having been 

 mortally wounded at the battle of Landen, fought in July of that year. 



