126 Sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 



Cheveley. 

 Roval Visitors. 



George I. 



Queen Anne. 



Duke of 

 Cumberland. 



New Market, the seat of Henry Lord Dover, second brother to the 

 Lord Jermyn, is well built and furnished, though the mob were 

 pleased, in the year 1688, to gut it, as the term was," and he 

 recommends Sir John to pay it a visit during his " travels." At 

 any rate it retained its celebrity among pilgrims interested in its 

 historical associations, or attracted by the pastoral and sylvan 

 scenery for which it was so conspicuous in the flat and treeless 

 heaths by which it was, in those days, surrounded. Indeed, 

 there were few persons of importance or culture sojourning 

 at Newmarket for the races who did not pay at least a 

 fleeting visit to Cheveley, where the Terrace — a miniature of 

 the famous Terrace of St. Germain, from which it is said 

 to have been designed — was the great attraction. And the 

 vases on it, even to this day, are pronounced by experts to 

 be unique, and valuable beyond price. William II L desired 

 to see it, when he was at Newmarket during the Spring Meeting 

 of 1698, but whether from a sentiment of delicacy or other 

 pressing matters, he forewent the pleasure and paid a visit to 

 Chippenham instead, where he had a staunch adherent in the 

 person of his Master of the Game within the circuit of twelve 

 miles, and also Treasurer of his Navy which ruled the waves 

 within a circuit of the whole world. In October, 171 7, George I. 

 went to Newmarket to see the races there, and to ascertain 

 what the lucky place was like, where, at the October Meeting of 

 1707, Queen Anne created him a Prince of the British Empire, 

 and recognised him to be presumptive heir to her throne. One 

 morning during this, his first sojourn at Newmarket, the King rode 

 up to Cheveley and then went across to Chippenham to see his 

 Master of the Game (as above) and Treasurer of his Navy (as 

 aforesaid). 



William, Duke of Cumberland, who became a regular habitue 

 at Newmarket, made his first appearance there during the Spring 

 Meeting of i 753. " The Duke " (as he was styled by his contem- 

 poraries) resided at the Palace during the race meetings, and it is 



