First Name:

Jane

Last Name:

Cheyne (nee Cavendish)

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

post 1669

Inscription:

From associated information panel in the church:

Sacred top the Memory of
The most pious and devout Heroine*, made famous not so much by the long lne of her ancestry, as by her own virtues, LADY JANE CHEYNE, the eldest of the three daughters of the Most Excellent the Duke of Newcastle, and the most loving and beloved wife of Charles Cheyne, Knight. She never caused him any grief except by her own death; and by her he had three children of the greatest promise, Elizabeth, William and Catharine, the last (especially pleasing to God) having fulfilled her allotted span, died within a few months of her mother. Among her other charitable works, she ordered, a little while before her death, and, as it were, by her Will, that this Church should be roofed over with rows of beams (which has now, by the Grace of God, been accomplished).
With the same piety and patience that she had lived out her life, she ended it on October 8th in the 1669th year of salvation, the 48th year of her age, and the 15th year of her marriage. Almost all her married life she spent in this neighbourhood, to which she was a source of enrichment and blessing. She lies, with her little daughter Catharine, buried inside the Chancel, in the middle of the vault, under the Holy Table itself.

On associated information panel:

*(Extract from her funeral sermon, preached by the Rector, Dr. Adam Littleton. “What Courage and Loyalty, as the right daughter of a General, as the Valiant Woman here spoken of, did she shew, in keeping the Garrison’d House of her Father, where she was left with one of her noble sisters…amid the Horrid Circumstances of War, till taken by the Enemy (Cromwell) and there made their Prisonere?”

Also:

Sacred to the memory of CHARLES CHEYNE
Viscount of Newhaven in the Kingdom of Scotland and Lord of the Manor of Chelsey, who had erected this monument in memory of Lady Jane Cheyne his first and most beloved wife, who died 29 years before him. An now he himself has died (alas too quickly!) and, buried next to his wife (as he arranged in his Will) in the same vault, is waiting, with her, a blessed Resurrection.

He died 30th day of June 1698 aged 78.

Translated by a “Chene” resident 1921-1939

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

From photographic evidence

Memorial Notes:

Memorial by Paolo Bernini Designer. b.1648 & Antonio Raggi I, Sculptor. 1624–1686

Jane Cheyne (nee Cavendish) was the eldest daughter of William Cavendish, Earl (later Marquis and Duke) of Newcastle. After the death of her mother Elizabeth (Bassett) Cavendish (1599–1643) in 1643 (see her statue on her father's memorial in Blore Church, Staffordshire) and the absence of her father, on campaign leading the Royalist army in the North, she became governess of the family home at Welbeck Abbey.

See:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36729512/jane-cheyne

Portrait in Welbeck Abbey Collection with later painted description in gold:
'Jane Cavendish Eldest Daughter to Wm. Duke
of Newcastle Married to Chas. Cheney of Chesham
Boys, Esqr. This Lady kept Garrison for her Father
At Welbeck against
Ye Parliament ARMY'

Worsley, Lucy 2007 Cavalier: The Story of a 17th Century Playboy. London, Faber & Faber Ltd,

‘A Sermon at the Funeral of the Right Honourable the Lady Jane Eldest Daughter to his Grace William Duke of Newcastle’ (London, 1669)

https://harleyfoundation.org.uk/explore/entry/lady-jane-cavendish-the-civil-war-with-laura-sherburn/

https://www.friendsoflydiardpark.org.uk/news/blog-post/jane-elizabeth-and-frances-cavendish/

Mueller, Sara Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley’s Manuscript Collections, in Hopkins, Lisa & Rutter, Tom 2020 A Companion to the Cavendishes, Arc Humanities Press.