FIRST PAYMENT BY THE SHEEIFF OF SUSSEX. 13 



marriage with that lady, upon whom the manor shortly after 

 devolved,* 



This brings us face to face with the first payment recorded 

 in the Pipe Rolls of the counties of Surrey and Sussex to 

 the Hereditary Masters of the Royal Buckhounds, which is as 

 follows : — 



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 "Si ®ziiFmga|tox ^ (vae'cyais (vnisamaf (^ (otiu of ofir p &tcm j (z^ pit^ ss'y canur- 



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 ^^ccepcf. 



(Reduced facsimile, vide Pipe Roll 36th Edward III., item "Sussex.") 



This facsimile, with the contractions extended, reads as 

 follows :— 



Et Bernardo Biocas Custodi canum Regis pro Damis cui Rex 

 concessit duodeeim denarios per diem pro vadiis suis, et Waltero 

 SuthWyke Roger Popham et Johanni Hayne quibus Rex concessit 

 A-idelicet cuilibet eorum pro vadiis suis duos denarios per diem, et 

 Johanni de Benham garcioni pro vadiis suis unum denarium et unum 

 obolum per diem, et pro putura xxiiij canum currencium et sex 

 leporariorum in custodia piedicto [for predicti] Bernardi existencium 

 \-ideHcet pro quolibet eorum unum obokim et ferlingum per diem 

 videlicet pro bujusmodi vadiis et putura a festo sancti Micbaelis 

 anno xxxv finiente usque idem festum proximo sequens per ccclxv 

 dies — bdijii" xvij*- vj<^' per breve Regis irrotulatvim in Memoran- 

 dis predictis termino predicto et unam partem indenture inter pre- 

 fatum vicecomitem et predictum Bernardum de receptis. 



Translation. — And to Bernard Brocas, keeper of the King's buck- 

 liounds, to whom the King granted twelve pence a day for bis wages ; 



* The Manor of Little Weldon, with the tenure of the custody of .the King's 

 Buckhounds, passed by marriage through the female heirs from the Lovels to 

 the de Borhuntes, and then to Sir Bernard Brocas, subject to the settlement 

 above. 



