70 mings of tbe Ibuntino^f iel^ 



But when the Earl of Leicester was despatched to the 

 Low Countries in 1585 to assist the Dutch in their gallant 

 struggle against Philip of Spain, Sir William Pelham 

 relinquished civil for military duties, and met his 

 death as a soldier should at Flushing in 1587. 



The son of this valiant knight was slain fighting for 

 the king at Newark, when Rupert's thundering charge 

 broke the Roundheads and scattered them like chaff. 

 The grandson of the Elizabethan Pelhams settled at 

 Brocklesby in Lincolnshire, which has been the seat of 

 this branch of the family ever since. 



In the year 1708, Mary, eldest daughter of Charles Pel- 

 ham of Brocklesby, married Francis Anderson of Manby, 

 the descendant of Sir Thomas Anderson, who came from 

 Scotland in the sixteenth century and rose to be Lord 

 Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. When Charles 

 Pelham died in 1763, at the age of eighty-four, without 

 issue, he bequeathed his Brocklesby estates to his great- 

 nephew, Charles Anderson, son of the aforesaid Mary 

 and Francis, who took the name of Pelham. In 1794, 

 Charles Anderson Pelham was created first Baron 

 Yarborough of Yarborough in the county of Lincoln, and 

 with him commenced the history of the famous 

 Brocklesby Hunt. 



This historic pack, however, can trace its origin 

 back much further than the time of the first Lord 

 Yarborough, and the following particulars of its founda- 

 tion I have culled from Mr R. T. Vj-ner's Notitia 

 Venatica and other sources. 



Somewhere about 1590, the Tyrwhitt family possessed 

 the lordship of Kettleby, and lived in a hall surrounded 

 by a moat with fortified drawbridge, near Bigby, on the 

 highroad from Brigg to Caistor. In 1799 some remains 



