Sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 119 



Tregonwcll 

 Frampton. 



His Death. 



pocket money, and was as perfectly calm, cheerful, and unconcerned Saxton Hall 



when he lost ;^iooo as when he had won it." When this scribe left 



the betting-post he absurdly alludes to seeing the horses at exercise 



before " the grand day," when " they would exert their utmost 



strength as much as at the time of the race itself, and that to such an 



extremity that one or two of them died in the stable when they came 



to be rubbed down after the first heat." Yet this sort of incoherent 



rubbish has been preserved and reiterated and improved upon by 



Hawkesworth and his successors, even down to our own times. 



After having been a tenant, residing on the Cheveley estate 

 for about fifty years, Mr. Frampton died, unmarried, in his 

 "dwelling-house" there on March 12, 1727, in the eighty-sixth 

 year of his age, and was buried exactly in the middle of the 

 chancel on the steps before the altar in All Saints Church, New- 

 market, where a mural monument of black and white marble, 

 with a pyramid at the top, and on it an urn was erected to his 

 memory. On the bottom part of the pyramid, on a marble 

 shield, were his arms, viz. : Argent, a bend gules cottised 

 sable. A greyhound sejant argent, collared gules. When this 

 church was "renovated," about twenty years ago, "the King's 

 pew," Mr. Frampton's monument, and all the memorial tablets in 

 the interior were ruthlessly removed or destroyed. 



A few more episodes in connection with the manor of Saxton- 

 hall may be mentioned here. At a Court Baron held on Friday, 

 June 25, 1742, Thomas Elder, Esq., chief steward thereof, pre 

 siding, it was presented (inter alia) that " an antient peice of 

 Plate or Silver Dish was found since the last Court held for this 

 Manor lying hid and Buried in the Earth near a Barn held of this 

 Manor by the Right Honble. William Lord Sundon, and now in the 

 Occupation of ffrancis Buckle ; which belongs to his Grace the 

 Duke of Somerset, Lord of the Manor of Saxtonhall, as Treasure 

 Trove found within the same, And has been accordingly delivered 

 bv the said ffrancis Buckle for his Grace's use." 



Treasure 

 Trove. 



