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A very fine house, and a man that lives in mighty great fashion, with all things in a most extraordinary manner noble and rich about him, and eats in the French fashion all; and mighty nobly served with his servants, and very civil, that I was mighty pleased with it; and good discourse. He is a great defender of the Church of England and against the Act for Comprehension, which is the work of this day, about which the House is like to sit till night.
In 1685 Chicheley was returned for Preston on the duchy interest, but remained faithful to his old constituency. An inactive Member of James II’s Parliament, he was appointed only to the committee of elections and privileges and to that to take the accounts of the disbandment commissioners. He was listed among the opposition. His strongly Anglican views were no passport to favour in the new reign, and it was an additional misfortune that during his years in the Ordnance he had fallen out with Lord Dartmouth (George Legge), the most reliable of the King’s Protestant advisers. As his son-in-law observed, ‘Whilst he has so great an enemy as the Lord Dartmouth, there is small hopes for him, poor man. He must sink under his burden.’ Remarking on Ormonde’s removal as lord lieutenant of Ireland, Chicheley compared the Duke’s hard usage with his own.
When I see how that honourable good man my Lord of Ormonde is used, I hope I shall pass by my usage with great ease and follow the example of a man that had got a neat’s tongue in one hand and a piece of bread in the other, and went up and down the town and told everybody he held his tongue and ate his bread.
1. Wards 7/55/175; Le Neve’s Knights (Harl. Soc. viii), 234; E. C. Legh, Lady Newton, Lyme Letters, 5, 17.
2. Keeler, Long Parl. 133; C. H. Cooper, Annals of Cambridge, iii. 316, 513, 546, 557, 639-40; iv. 41; CSP Dom. 1689-90, p. 181; Camb. Antiq. Soc. Procs. xvii. 105; S. Wells, Drainage of Bedford Level, i. 350, 456-70; R. East, Portsmouth Recs. 359; Wahlstrand thesis, 58; B. Heath, Grocers’ Co. 211-12.
3. CSP Dom. 1664-5, pp. 49, 413; 1670, p. 224; 1671, p. 358; 1673-5, p. 185; 1679-80, p. 288; Sir Robert Somerville, Duchy of Lancaster Office Holders, 3; Williamson Letters (Cam. Soc. n.s. viii), 149.
4. CSP Dom. 1677-8, p. 437; 1679-80, pp. 229, 372; HMC Ormonde, n.s. ii. 208.
5. Buckler, Stemmata Chicheleana, 13; VCH Cambs. v. 265; Lyme Letters, 9; Keeler, 133; CSP Dom. 1670, p. 387; SP 23/192/865, 868; CJ, v. 313; Cal. Cl. SP, iv. 439, 471, 508, 534; P. Barwick, Life of Dr John Barwick (1724), 454.
6. CJ, viii. 249; Foxcroft, Halifax, i. 29; CSP Dom. 1663-4, p. 241; 1664-5, p. 187; Heath, 212.
7. Pepys Diary, 2 Sept., 25 Oct. 1667, 11 Mar. 1668; Cal. Treas. Bks. v. 539-40; R. Hist. Soc. Trans. (ser. 4), xxv. 60; CSP Dom. 1670, pp. 259, 587; 1672-3, p. 630; 1673, pp. 280, 301, 575; 1677-8, pp. 516-17; Lyme Letters, 8-9, 130; Grey, v. 148; CJ, ix. 480, 563.
8. Case of Many Protestant Freeholders (1680); CSP Dom. 1673-5, p. 411; 1679-80, pp. 320, 372; 1680-1, p. 186; Cooper, iii. 577; HMC Ormonde, n.s. v. 96, 122; HMC 7th Rep. 366, 373.
9. Lyme Letters, 130; VCH Cambs. v. 265; Case of Many Prot. Freeholders.
10. Bramston Autobiog. (Cam. Soc. xxxii), 278; R. Morrice, Entering Bk. 2, p. 82; CSP Dom. 1689-90, pp. 132, 475, 506; Lyme Letters, 205; W.F.C. Plowden, Chicheley, Plowdens, 119-21.

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