sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley E si ate. 87 



Saxton Hall. 



rhe Earls of 

 Godolphin. 



No sporting or rural events of any importance can be found Saxton Hall 

 relating to the adjoining manor of Saxton Hall until the period 

 when Sidney and Francis Earls of Godolphin, and Mr. Tregonwell 

 Frampton became associated with it. Of this remarkable trium- 

 virate, Sidney, first Earl of Godolphin, appears to have acquired 

 the manor from the North family about the year 1675, but under 

 what circumstances it is now impossible to record, as all the Court 

 rolls and deeds relating to the property during this epoch are lost 

 or missing. At any rate, there is little doubt that Sidney 

 Godolphin was the lord of the manor in 1678, when Mr. Tregon- 

 well Frampton became a tenant under his lordship there, and 

 again in 1701 of other holdings; and that he bequeath his 

 interests therein to Francis, second Earl of Godolphin, who took 

 up the bequest soon after Mr. Frampton's death in 1728, as 

 appears by the following extract copied from the Court Rolls of 

 the manor of the last mentioned year. 



To ALL Xp'ian people to whom these p'sents shall come 1 the Right 

 Honble ffrancis Earl of Godolphin send greeting Whereas at a Court 

 Baron holden for the Mannor of Saxton hall in Wooditon in the County of 

 Cambridge onorabout the Seaventh day of January One thousand six 

 hundred Seventy & Eight Tregonwell fframpton gent was admitted to him 

 and his heirs on the Surrender of William Coe To one peice or parcel! of 

 Land enclosed w"" a wall thereon built containing in length from the North 

 to the South, One hundred twenty and one feet and in breadth from the 

 East to the West Twenty and one feet which the said wall adjoyneth to the 

 ground then in the Occupacon of the said William Coe as by the Rolls of 

 the same Court may appear. And whereas at a Court Baron holden for 

 the said mannor onorabout the fourteenth day of May One Thousand 

 Seaven Hundred and one the said Tregonwell fframpton (by thename of 

 Tregonwell fframpton Esq') was admitted to him and his heirs on the 

 surrender of the said William Coe To one PEICE of ground next or near 

 adjoining to the West end of a Certain House wherein the said Tregonwell 



Frampton's 

 Dwelling 

 House. 



