102 Sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 



Saxton Hall. 



Tregonwell 

 Krampton. 



His 



with both of whom he was on such cordial terms as to warrant the 



behef that to the time of his death, in 1727, the confederation 



which subsisted between him and Sidney, the first Earl, continued 



with Francis, the second Earl. This triumvirate came from the 



West of England, where they were conspicuous exponents of rural 



sports and national pastimes. Frampton was a Dorsetshire man. 



He was born at Moreton, in the hundred of Winfrith, a lovely place 



situated on the river Frome, in the year 1641, and was the fifth son 



of William Frampton, Esq., by his wife, Catherine Tregonwell, of 



Milton Abbas; and many years afterwards this son became lord of 



the manor of Asspudle, in that county. 



Like many younger sons of county families, Tregonwell 



Frampton was obliged to seek his fortune and to make it by his 



own efforts. Nothing is known of his youth, nor, indeed, until he 



was in the thirty-fourth year of his age ; but it is probable he had 



turned his knowledge of field sports to good account, and had 



found a friend, though not a patron, in Sidney Godolphin. At any 



Appearance at x2X&, he appeared as a person of notoriety at the Newmarket Spring 

 Newmarket. ht-^ ttiiiii 



Meetmg m 1075. He had, doubtless, played many an active part 



before this time ; nevertheless, it was at this meeting that his name 



is first met with in connection with his remarkable career on the 



Turf. Assuming the portrait of him at the Durdans to have been 



painted about this time, he was a man of good physique, with a 



pleasing countenance and somewhat prominent aquiline nose. As 



he is said to have always adhered to the same style of dress, 



regardless of the vicissitudes of fashion, we see his lithe, erect 



figure clothed in a closely-fitting garment, sloping backwards from 



the hips and buttoned up to the neck. Over this he wears a sur- 



tout, unbuttoned, having a turned-down deep collar which does not 



come higher than the nape of his neck. Around the neck is a deep 



white collar of the early Cavalier and later Puritan pattern. His 



hair appears to be cut rather short, and has a bushy appearance on 



both sides of his head, which is covered with a low, three-cornered 



hat. He holds in his right hand a rather long, flexible whip, made 



