22 THE HISTOKY OF THE EOYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



and the service of "keeping the King's clogs called bukhoundis": 

 And that the said William Brocas died on 22 April, 1 E.ic. III., and 

 John Brocas was son and heir of the said William, and was forty 

 years of age : And whereas it has been made known to the present 

 King (that though the said manor, through the death of the said 

 William, was taken into the said King's hands by pretext of the 

 aforesaid inquisition, and still remains in the present King's hands), 

 the said John withovit due licence, presentation, or livery, &c., &c., 

 &c., has held the said manor, with its appvirtanances, from the afore- 

 said William, and still holds it, &c., &c. Writ to the Sheriff of 

 Northampton to summons the aforesaid John Brocas to appear 

 before the King in the Chancery on the morrow of St. Martin next 

 to come, to show reason why he should not answer to the King for 

 the issues and profits of the said manor from the time of the said 

 William's death, &c., &c., and render homage and fealty to the King 

 in respect of the premises. 



In the 2nd year of the reign of Eichard III. the fifth 

 Hereditary Master of the Royal Buckhounds was paid 50^. 

 out of the issues of the county Sussex for his own salary and 

 allowances, and those of his huntsman, John Parker, and the 

 two hunt-servants, R. Brown and W. Ingelfield, before men- 

 tioned. He does not appear to have received his annual 

 stipend for the 3rd and last regnal year of Richard III. ; but 

 during the first three years of the reign of Henry VII. he was 

 paid 50/. per annum by the Sheriffs of the county of Sussex. 

 Down to 1485 Jacob Henton was the huntsman, and Richard 

 Brown and William Ingelfield were the two berners. But in 

 the following year (3 Henry VII., A.D. 1488) Henry Uvedale 

 was the huntsman, and Henry Towers and John Stevens were 

 the berners of the pack. During the ensuing two years the 

 payments were again in abeyance ; they were resumed and 

 paid in the 6th and 7th regnal years of the reign of Henry VII., 

 in which latter year (1492) this Master died. 



Following the example of his father and grandfather, 

 John Brocas, Esq., the fifth Master of the Royal Buckhounds, 

 married twice. By his first wife Anne, daughter of Edward 

 Longford, Esq., he had two sons : Edward, who died young, 



