sport iiii^ ami Rural Records of the Chevcley Estate. 



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The Earls of 

 Godolphin. 



and stead to Surrender out of my hands into the hands of the Lord of the Saxton Hall 



said Mannor All and Singular the same Copy hold p'misses and every part 



and parcell thereof with their and every of their Appurtenances To the uses 



hereinafter expressed and limited (that is to say) To THE use and behoof 



of Richard Collier of Hogmagog hills in the said County of Cambridge 



yeoman and of George Tuting of Woodditton aforesaid yeoman To HOLD 



the one moiety thereof to the said Richard Collier and his Assigns for the 



life of the said Earl And the other moiety thereof to the said George 



Tuting and of his Assigns for the life of the said Earl as tenants in Cofiion 



thereof In Witness whereof I the said Earl of Godolphin have hereunto 



sett my hand and seal this sixth day of November in the Second Year of 



the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second King over Great 



Brittain ffrance and Ireland Annoq' Dni One thousand, Seaven hundred, 



twenty and eight. GODOLPHIN. Sealed and delivered (this paper being 



first duly Stamped with three sixpenny stamps) in the p'sence of us, John 



Hawkins, John Geree.* 



Sidney Godolphin, first Earl of Godolphin, was third son of Sir Sydney Earl of 

 Francis Godolphin, by his wife Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry 

 Berkeley, K.B., of Yarlington, co. Somerset. He had great 

 natural abilities, was well educated, and, inheriting the unshaken 

 loyalty of his family, entered the service of Charles II. in the 

 capacity of a page of honour to the King on September 29, 1662, 

 a position which he filled for ten years. He was then promoted 

 to the office of Groom of the Bedchamber, and in 1678 he became 

 Master of the Robes. On March 21, 1679, he was appointed a 

 Lord of the Treasury. About this time he was frequently with the 

 Court at Newmarket, where he appears to have acquired an 

 instinctive predilection for the Turf, with which he afterwards was 

 so conspicuously identified. It also appears he was associated at 

 this time with Mr. Tregonwell Frampton in racing affairs, and that 

 he acquired the manor of Saxtonhall, Newmarket, about the same 

 period. In April, 1684, he succeeded Sir Leoline Jenkins as 

 Secretary of State. When Lord Rochester was appointed Lord 

 President of the Council, Sidney Godolphin succeeded him at the 



* The fine on admission of Lord Godolpliin was £\o \os. 

 and Richard Collier £\ \s. each. 



George Tuling 



