124 Sporting mid Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 



Cheveley. 



Surveys 



and 



Valuations. 



Land tax and out-payments yearly : 



A year's land tax for Cheveley Park ... 



A year's window tax for ditto* 



Parochial payments for ditto, about ... 



A year's land tax for Cheveley Hall farm, &c. 



A yearly payment to the free school of Cheveley for 



the school lands lying intermixed among the 



lands of the Hall farm 

 Deduct for a cottage charged at £\ ^s. o\d., the rent 



being 125'. 6rt?., and for Tilbrooke's farm, being 



too high rented, £,20 agreed and settled, in all... 



la o o 



990 



1000 



54 13 o 



10 o o 



122 14 6 



Leaving a net yearly produce of ;^589 35'., exclusive of the pollards in 

 Cheveley Park, estimated worth £200.t 



The Masters of 

 the Game. 



Before bringing tlie sporting and rural reminiscences of this 

 estate to an end it may be remarked that the Royal Prerogative 

 touching the game thereon, as enforced by James I. and Charles I., 

 continued to be occasionally exercised in the reign of Charles II., 

 and was nominally observed down to a comparatively recent 

 period. As already shown, James I. appointed Sir Thomas 

 Jermyn to the office — which was afterwards styled and officially 

 designated — of " Master of the Game at Newmarket " and the 

 circuit within the verge or liberties thereonto pertaining. In the 

 reign of Charles I. we see Sir John Carleton invested with like 

 powers (p. 23). Soon after the Restoration Sir Allen Apsley 

 was appointed to fill the vacancy, and, although occasionally 

 notices were issued calling attention to the sporting prerogatives, 

 the claims of the Crown do not appear to have been strictly 



* In 1696 (eight years after the hearth tax was abolished) the tax on windows 

 in houses was instituted. It was imposed upon every inhabited dwelling-house in 

 England and Wales, except cottages, viz., for every house with less than ten 

 windows, is. ; from ten to twenty, 2^-. and 4^-. additional, that is 6s. ; twenty or 

 more, 2s., and Sj. additional, that is 10s. The assessment was altered from lime to 

 time. What it was per window in 1762 we cannot say. 



t The timber on the entire estate was valued at ^^8941. 



