WILLIAM BROCAS, SIXTH HEREDITARY MASTER. 23 



and William Brocas, his successor, the sixth Master of the 

 Royal Buckhounds,* He married Mary, daughter of John 

 Griffin, Esq., of Braybrooke, by whom he had issue two 

 daughters, Anne and Edith, of whom the latter eventually 

 became his sole heiress. This William Brocas, Esq., the sixth 

 Master of the Royal Buckhounds, dying in the twenty-first 

 year of Henry VII. (a.d. 1506), was succeeded by his daughters, 

 Anne and Edith Brocas. 



On the Pipe Rolls for the 9th regnal year of Henry VII. 

 William Brocas, the sixth Master, was paid 50^. by the 

 Sheriffs of the county Sussex, but we can find no payments 

 to him for the 10th and 11th years of this reign. The 

 stipend of his office was resumed on the 12th, and con- 

 tinued to be paid to him regularly and in full until the 

 22nd Henry VII. (a.d. 1-506), in the course of which year 

 he died. During this period Henry TJvedale was the hunts- 

 man, and Henry Towers and John Stevens were the other 

 hunt servants to the pack. 



On the Pipe Roll of the county Sussex for the 23rd (and 

 last) regnal year of the reign of Henry VIL (a.d. Aug. 22, 

 1508 — April 21, 1509) John Brocas, Esq., the seventh Heredi- 

 tary Master of the Royal Buckhounds, was paid the usual 

 stipend of 50/. by virtue of his office by the Sheriff of that 

 county in that year. Who this John Brocas was we cannot 

 tell, as he is not mentioned as having ever held the office in 

 Professor Burrows' work. At any rate, he also officiated as 

 the Hereditary Master during the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years 

 of Henry VIII.'s reign (April 22, 1509— April 21, 1512), re- 

 ceiving 501. a year out of the issues of the county Sussex by 

 the hands of the Sheriff of that county for the time being. The 

 hunt servants under him were the same as in the time of 

 William Brocas, the sixth Master. We do not find any pay- 

 ment on account of this portion of the Royal pack inscribed on 



* On June 16th, 1492, licence of entry without proof of age was granted 

 to William Brocas, Esq., son and heir of John Brocas, Esq., and grandson and 

 heir of William Brocas, and great-grandson and heir of William Brocas, all 

 deceased. (Pat. Roll, sub data.') 



