sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 127 



said his favourite morning walk or afternoon ride was to Clieveley 

 Park and back.* 



In 1768 Christian VII. King of Denmark occupied the 

 Palace during the October Meeting. Accompanied by his suite 

 and " chaperoned " — in the words of the intellingencer — by the 

 beautiful and volatile Duchess of Ancaster, they paid a morning 

 visit to Cheveley, where they spent some time in the Park, and 

 are said to have admired it very much. Christian VII., as also 

 his predecessor Christian IV. — who was likewise at Cheveley in 

 Julv, 161 4 — were related by marriage to our Royal Family, the 

 former having married the Princess Caroline Matilda, sister to 

 George HI.; the daughter of the latter, Anne of Denmark, was 

 the Queen Consort of James I. These visits of the Danish Royal 

 Family to Cheveley recall the fact that the manor once belonged 

 to Canute the Great. 



Having already briefly referred to the estate when it belonged 

 to the Manners' Family, it is therefore only now necessary to 

 say, in conclusion, that, since 1890, Cheveley has been the 

 residence of Mr. H. McCalmont, who purchased the property 

 (which he had formerly held on lease) from the Duke of 

 Rutland, in 1892. Mr. McCalmont was elected Member of 

 Parliament for the Newmarket or Eastern Division of Cambridge- 

 shire in 1895. It was at Cheveley that the great Isinglass, 

 one of the best horses of the century, was foaled. His racing 

 career may be epitomised in the words of the tablet on the 



* Ju<ij;ing from the Accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber of the Royal 

 Household, there were elaborate preparations in making ready the Palace for the 

 reception of the Duke of Cumberland during his sojourn there at the spring meeting 

 of 1753- on which occasion the cost was ;{'268 xds. dd. The Duke does not 

 appear to have attended the autumn meeting of that year, but he was in residence 

 at the Palace at both meetings from 1754 to 1759, and at the spring meeting 

 of 1760. but absent at the October meeting in consequence of the death of his 

 father, which occurred during that month ; and he seems to have been present 

 at all the meetings held there from 1761 to the year of his death, 1765, when 

 the last entry in those accounts occurs : " for airing and getting ready H.M. Palace, 

 at Newmarket, for the reception of the late Duke of Cumberland, in the year 1765, 

 /■yl lis. 4(/." 



Cheveley. 



Kings of 

 Denmark. 



