sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 125 



enforced.* Sir Edward Russell, Earl of Orford, was the next Cufvf.i.f.y. 



Master of the Game at Newmarket. When he died, in 1727, t,, ,, . , 



' ' The Masters of 



Charles, Duke of Grafton was appointed by a Royal Warrant, the Game, 

 dated December 22, 1727; and Thomas Paton, Esq., on 

 January 24, i 766. He held the appointment down to July 5, i 784, 

 when we believe it was abolished. It was an honorary office in 

 the sense of not bringing any direct stipend to those by whom 

 it was held ; nevertheless they enjoyed, concurrently with it, 

 other places of profit under the Crown. f They drew, how- 

 ever, £60 a year for the wages of three under game keepers at 

 Newmarket. % 



As to the neglected state of Cheveley Hall and Park after 

 the mansion was looted in December, 1688, and the sad events 

 happening to its then owner, the once debonair Henry Jermyn, 

 Lord Dover, it would appear (if we can rely on a statement made, 

 at the beginning of the eighteenth century, by Sir Peter Le Neve, 

 Garter King at Arms) that the demesne and house was not 

 injured to the extent generally supposed. At that time Sir Peter 

 drew up a sort of itinerary for the " direction of Sir John Percival, 

 Bart., in his travels through the counties of Essex, Norfolk, 

 Suffolk, and Cambridge," in which he says: "Cheveley above 



* Hist. Newmarket, vol. ii., passim. 



t ^Ir. Thomas Panton was a groom of the Removing Wardrobe to George III., 

 with a salary of /"130 per annum, and keeper of the king's racehorses at Newmarket, 

 for each of which he received jCioo a year. 



X The liveries of the royal game-keepers at Newmarket, which were provided The 



by the royal wardrobe, was a separate charge, and apparently cost more than the Game-keepers' 

 yearly wages of the men. Thus, in 171 6, the bill for the liveries of the three under Liveries, 



gamekeepers at Newmarket included the following items : 13I yards of crimson 

 grain cloth for coats and breeches, at i6.r. per yard, ;^ii 2s.; 27 yards of 

 blue serge, to line the coats and for waistcoats, at 2s. ()d. per yard, jTT) ^V- 4'^- > 

 1 14 J yards of broad gold arras lace, and 66f yards of narrow ditto, for coats, 

 waistcoats, and breeches, and 5j yards of broad ditto, for hats, (total) troy 

 weight 990Z. I2dwts., at los. per ounce, ^^"49 i6.f. Besides these there was 

 Firman's l)ill for buttons : " four-cross basket campaign " and " large rich gilt 

 breast buttons " are mentioned. The tailor's charge for making each suit was 

 24^., and i()s. t)d. each additional for trimmings. Their hats cost 39^-. each, plus 

 the gold lace. 



