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quoted, as well as to the Memoir prefixed to Sadler's " State 

 Papers and Letters," edited by Clifford, 1809, and the "Memoir 

 of the Life and Times of Sir Ralph Sadler," by Major F. 

 Sadleir Stoney, R.A., 1877 (p. 223). See also Lloyd's "State 

 Worthies," 1670 (p. 95), and Nichols, "Progresses and Proces- 

 sions of Queen EHzabeth," vol. i. p. 100; ii. p. 104. 



A grandson and namesake of Sir Ralph Sadler — namely, the 

 only son and heir of Sir Thomas Sadler — kept a pack of otter- 

 hounds at Standon. He is mentioned in the first chapter of 

 Walton's " Compleat Angler," wherein Venator refers to a meet 

 of his hounds at Amwell Hill. He died February 12, 1660. 



II. Portrait of Robert Cheseman, Falconer 

 TO Henry VIII. From a painting by Hans Holbein 

 in the Royal Gallery at the Hague. 



He was the son and heir of Edward Cheseman, Cofferer and 

 Keeper of the Wardrobe of the Household to Henry VII., and 

 was born in 1485. (Harl. MSS. 1546, fol. 67*, and 1551, fol. 28^) 

 This portrait of him was painted in 1533, when he was in his 

 forty-eighth year. 



He lived at Dormanswell, near Northcote, in Middlesex, 

 and owned land and tenements at Norwood and Hanwell, 

 besides several houses at Kentish Town, and a house, garden, 

 and orchard in Fetter Lane. He was made a Justice of 

 the Peace for the county in 1531 (Gairdner, Calendar State 

 Papers, Henry VIII., vol. v. p. 77). He sat upon several 

 Royal Commissions — as, for example, the commission of inquiry 

 in 1535 as to first-fruits and tenths (Gairdner, vol. viii. pp. 40, 

 49), and that in 1545 for the viewing of wheat and oats in 

 Middlesex, with the object of ascertaining what was available for 

 the King's use after allowance for the necessities of the owners. 

 Sir Ralph Sadler was a member of the Privy Council which met 

 on this business at Windsor, the 24th October 1545 (Acts of 

 the Privy Council, 1 542-1 547, ed. Dasent, pp. 260-261). Robert 

 Cheseman was also one of the commissioners of inquiry concern- 

 ing the possessions of Cardinal Wolsey at the date of his attainder 

 (Gairdner, vol. iv. No. 2931); and on the occasion of the 

 Northern Rebellion his name appears on the list of " such noble- 



