50 Sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 



Stonehall i> 

 imoulton. 



The Davers 



Fami!}'. 



(co. Suffolk) and other estates in that county. In consideration of his 

 father's and his own loyalty to Charles I. and Charles II. he was created a 

 baronet, May 12, 1682. His eldest son and heir, Sir Robert Davers, Bart., 

 of Rougham, married the Hon. Mary Jermyn, second daughter and co-heir 

 of Thomas, second Lord Jermyn, by whom he had four sons — Sir Robert, 

 Sir Jermyn, Thomas (an Admiral in the Royal Navy), and Henry — and five 

 daughters. Sir Robert, who frequently represented the county of Suffolk 

 in Parliament in the reign of Queen Anne and George I., died October i, 

 1722, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Robert Davers, Bart., an 

 auditor of the excise, who died without heirs June i, 1723, and was 

 succeeded by his brother, Sir Jermyn Davers, Bart., M.P. He married 

 Margaretta, daughter and co-heir of the Rev. — Greene, by whom he had 

 four sons and four daughters. He sold the manor of Stonehall, in Moulton, 

 to Charles Duke of Somerset, in February, 1732. Sir Jermyn died in 

 February, 1743, and was succeeded by his only surviving son. Sir Charles 

 Davers, the fifth baronet, at whose decease, unmarried, about the year 1806, 

 the title became extinct. 



DiTTON 



Valence. 

 Dr. Wendy. 



Judge 

 Coningsby. 



The Tin. 



Sir Richard 

 Conningsby. 



DiTTON Valence. 



In the reign of Queen Elizabeth the manor of Ditton Valence 

 was in the possession of the Wendy family. Dr. Wendy was 

 physician to Henry \'III., and was a witness to that King's last 

 will and testament. 



In the reign of James I. the manor belonged to the Coningsbys, 

 of North Mimms, co. Hertford, the descendants of Judge Coningsby, 

 temp. Henry VIII. It appears by the following grant that Sir 

 Richard Coningsby obtained a monopoly for the exclusive exporta- 

 tion of tin during his life, and that there were some complicated 

 financial relations in connection with it between Sir Richard and 

 Queen Elizabeth ; and in a subsequent one between him and 

 James I. concerning playing cards. 



In July, 161 5, he obtained a grant from James I. of 5.?. for 

 every gross of playing cards imported into the realm or the 

 dominions thereof during the term of twenty-five years: "And his 

 Ma'" doth hereby, at the humble suite of the Cardmakers, make 

 the said Sir Richard Conysbere his officer for the viewing, sealing, 



