Cadeby Hall, Wyham cum Cadeby, nr. Ludborough, Lincs.
The estate of Cadeby came to Hugh Hammersley (1663-1714), Vicar of Roxby, Lincs, through his wife, Mary Pye (d. 1718), daughter of John Pye of Cadeby. Family history* relates that Hugh Hammersley, who was something of a high-living, sporting cleric, gambled this property away to the Pelham family of Brocklesby Hall, Lincs., who were later Earls of Yarborough. Apparently, when the Pelhams realised that they had deprived the Vicar of his property, they generously granted him the living of Broughton, Lincs. (i.e. made him Vicar of Broughton). Cadeby was sold to the Pelhams, who had a mortgage on it, in about 1770 by Thomas Hammersley (1747-1812), son of Hugh above. It is currently derelict.
*'Hugh Hammersley appears to have been a type of the rural Anglican Clergyman such as Fielding and Smollett were fond of depicting. He kept race horses, lived upon familiar terms with his wealthy sporting neighbours in the County and in a short time had deeply mortgaged the estate of Cadby which had come to him by his wife Mary, on the death of her father John Pye.
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Among his most intimate associates were the Pelham family - who if they won the greater part of the Vicar's money at the card table, or on the Race Course, in return lent him their political or social influence for his advancement in the Church. His grand daughter, Mrs. Allott, in recalling her childish recollections of Roxby writes,
"The living of Broughton was the one given to my grandfather by the Pelhams when he had lost or spent his property by living too much and playing too high with that family. I recollect hearing (I think sister Cope had it from our father) that when the Pelhams found they had got the unwary clergyman's property, they gave, or got him, a living to make up his loss."'
An old photo of Cadeby.
An old photo of Cadeby.
An old photo of Cadeby (the rear).
