CHEYNE, Roger (1362-1414), of Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks.

Not to be confused with his namesake, the King’s esquire elected for Oxon. in Oct. 1382 and Nov. 1384, who may well have been his uncle of that name (CPR, 1367-70, p. 215; CIPM, xvi. 818-20). The older Roger Cheyne had entered royal service at Woodstock in 1349, risen to be an esquire in the households of Edward III and Richard II, and died in 1398 (CPR, 1377-81, p. 247; 1396-9, p. 327). It seems very likely that he was the ‘quondam Armiger domini Regis’ whose monumental brass (in the shape of a plain cross lacking any other inscription) is at St. Peter’s church in Cassington, Oxon., although since the manor of Cassington later belonged to the younger Roger, the brass is generally ascribed to him: Bucks. Rec. Soc. i. 295.