WILLIAM BEOCAS, FOURTH HEREDITARY MASTER. 21 



Royal Buckhounds, was succeeded by his eldest son (by his 

 first wife), William Brocas, Esq., of Beaurepaire, etc., the 

 fourth Hereditary Master of the Royal Buckhounds. 



We cannot find any payment to him recorded on the Pipe 

 Rolls before the 12th year of the reign of Edward IV. (March 4, 

 1472 — March 3, 1473), when he received 50/. out of the issues 

 of the county Sussex for himself, his huntsman, Thomas Parker, 

 and his two hunt servants, Peter Hunte and John Donne. Five 

 years later the huntsman is designated as Thomas Parker, 

 senior, of Windsor, and one of the hunt servants as Thomas 

 Parker, junior, of Bromley. Down to the 22nd year of 

 Edward IV.'s reign we find the same huntsman, but the 

 other two hunt servants then were William Ing-elfield and 

 Richard Brown. The last payment to this Hereditary Master 

 of the Buckhounds and his subordinates occurs on the Pipe 

 Roll for the county Sussex for the 1st year of the reign of 

 Richard III., when he received the usual stipend from the 

 Sheriff" of that county by virtue of his office. This William 

 Brocas, the fourth Hereditary Master, died on April 22, 

 1484. He married, first, Agnes, daughter of Thomas Berking- 

 ham, Esq., by whom he had issue, John Brocas, his son 

 and heir, the fifth of his family who officiated as Hereditary 

 Master of the Royal Buckhounds. It appears from the 

 subjoined inquisition that, owing to certain formalities not 

 having been complied with on the demise of his father in 

 the 1st Richard III. (a.d. 1484), the family honours and 

 estates were in abeyance for some time ; however, these 

 legal technicalities were soon after adjusted, to the satisfaction 

 of all concerned. 



Whereas by a certain inquisition taken at Bulwek, 20 Oct 2 Ric. iij., 

 late King of England " de facto et non de jvire," before Richard 

 Bvirton, the said King's escheator co. Northampton, and returned 

 unto the said King's chancery, it was found among other things 

 that WUliam Brocas esq., deceased, held in the said county on the 

 day of his death, in his demesne as of fee, the manor of Parva 

 Weldon called " Hunters Maner," with its appurtanances in the said 

 CO. : And that the said manor was held of the said King by fealty 



