CHEVELEY, a parish in the hundred of CHEVELEY,
county of CAMBRIDGE, 3 miles (E. S. E.) from Newmarket,
containing 521 inhabitants. The living is a
fectory, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of
Norwich, rated in the king's books at £16. 8. l£., and
in the patronage of James Thomas Hand. The church
is. dedicated to St. Mary. A. free'grammar school was
founded, in 1558, by John Ray, Esq., with an endowment
of forty-nine acres and a half of land in the parish,
producing an annual income of about £ 35, to which,
in augmentation of the master's salary, Lord Dover
added a farm at Worlington in Suffolk. In 1748, Mr.
John Warren bequeathed £300 New South Sea annuities,
for teaching girls to read and sew.