CO sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 



Chevf.ley. in Wood-ditton were sold to him by Joshua Grigsby and John 



"I~~" Chalhs ; the manor of Astons by WiHiam Byatt ; the manor of 



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Scudamore Argentines, alias Butlers, in Newmarket, Horseheath, Castle 



Family. Camps, Shudy Camps, and many other lands were bought of the 



executors of Hildebrand Lord Alington, deceased. In March, 



1736, the Duke purchased the manor of Saxton Hall of Richard 



Daston, Esquire ; Ditton Valence of Roger and Mary Coningsby ; 



various lands at Westerly Waterless, Brinkley, and Dullingham ; a 



barn and stable in Newmarket, co. Suffolk, "formerly apart of an 



inn called the George and then the Golden Lyon " ; cottages in 



Woodditton of William Fyson ; in short, every thing in the vicinity 



that was for sale in houses and lands was bought by the Duke in this 



deal. In August, 1737, he purchased Lidgate and Cropley Park, 



and other lands thereabout, from Sir Jermyn Davers ; the manor 



of Weeting, and various lands and tenements in that part of 



Norfolk, of the Viscountess Dowager Howe, Sir Robert Grosvenor, 



and Sir William Napier. In December, 1740, he acquired the 



manors of Great and Little VVilbraham, Bottisham, Burwell, Ful- 



burne and Westley of Sir John James ; the possessions of Thomas 



Hustler, Esquire, in Woodditton, Saxton, and Cheveley ; Borrough 



Green, Brinkley, and Dullingham of James Francis and George 



Frances, born in 171 i, who married Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of 

 Beaufort, from whom she was divorced in 1743-4. In February, 1732, 

 Lady Frances Scudamore, Duchess of Beaufort, sold the manor of Ditton 

 Camois to Charles Duke of Somerset. She married, secondly, Charles 

 Fitzroy, Esq., a natural son of the ist Duke of Grafton, who assumed 

 the name and arms of Scudamore. By him she had an only daughter, and 

 heir to the Scudamore estates, Frances, who married, in 1769, the Hon. 

 Charles Howard, afterwards Earl of Surrey and 4th Duke of Norfolk, who 

 died December 15, 18 15. Frances, Duchess of Norfolk, died October 22, 

 1820, when, there being no issue to the marriage, the estates of Holme 

 Lacy devolved upon the Hon. Sir Edwyn Francis Stanhope, Bart., as a 

 lineal descendant of Mary, wife of Sir Giles Brydges, of Wilton Castle, 

 CO. Hereford, daughter of Sir James Scudamore, Knight, and sister to John, 

 1st Viscount Scudamore. Sir Edwyn Stanhope assumed the additional 

 surname and arms of Scudamore, by Royal Sign Manual, on acquiring 

 the Holme Lacy estates, which subsequently came to the Earls of Chester- 

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