76 Sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 



Cheveley. 



Master of the 



Royal 



Staghounds 



North of Trent. 



this Office or any matters or things depending thereon or relating there- 

 unto may require We are graciously pleased to grant & allow unto the said 

 Evelyn Duke of Kingston the allowance or sum of £1600 by the year to 

 commence from the day of the date Hereof and be paid to the said Evelyn 

 Duke of Kingston or his Assigns without Account by the hands of the 

 Treasurer of Our Chamber for the time being out of such Our Treasure as 

 shall be Imprested to him for that purpose the first payment thereupon to 

 be of so much of the said Allowance or yearly sum shall amount unto being 

 computed by the day from the day of the date hereof as aforesaid to the 

 next usual Quarterly feast day and from thenceforth Quarterly at the four 

 most usual feasts in the year by even and equal payments during Our 

 Pleasure And We do Order and Appoint that the said Allowance or yearly 

 sum shall be added to the Establishment of the Expence in the Office of the 

 Treasurer of Our Chamber and paid in like manner as the other Allowances 

 thereon are paid or payable and that the Acquittances of the said Evelyn 

 Duke of Kingston or his Assigns shall be good and sufficient Discharges. 

 And these presents shall be sufficient and full Authority in his behalf 

 Given at Our Court at St. James's, the 23d day of March 1737 In the 

 Eleventh year of Our Reign. 



By His Majesty's Command 



R. WALPOLE. 



WINNINGTON. 



G. EARLE. 



His Regiment 

 of Horse. 



On the outbreak of the rebelHon of 1745, at his own expense, 

 the Duke of Kingston raised a regiment of Hght horse, recruited 

 among his stag-hunting confreres, which greatly distinguished 

 itself at the battle of Culloden, and he was subsequently promoted 

 to the rank of a general in the army. At Court he was one of the 

 Gentlemen of the Bedchamber. He married Elizabeth Chudleigh, 

 one of the Maids of Honour to the Dowager Princess of Wales, 

 and only daughter of Col. Thomas Chudleigh, of Chelsea 

 Hospital ; but this lady, so notorious as Duchess of Kingston, was 

 afterwards convicted by her peers of bigamy. The Duke died at 

 Bath, September 23rd, 1773, when all his honours became extinct, 

 while his estates devolved upon his nephew Charles Medows, Esq., 

 who assumed the name of Pierrepont and was created Earl 

 Manvers. 



