24 THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



the Pipe Rolls of Surrey or Sussex for the following year ; 

 therefore the assumption is that the office was in abeyance 

 until the ensuing year (5 Henry VIII.), when we ascertain 

 that pursuant to an inquisition taken before Lambert Langtry, 

 the King's escheator, at Howell,* Northamptonshire, on Novem- 

 ber 3, 1506, it was proved that Anne and Edith, daughters of 

 WiUiam Brocas, Esq., deceased, held the Manor of Little 

 Weldon in capite by tenure of keeping f the King's Buck- 

 hounds, and that those ladies and their husbands were paid 

 the usual stipend of the office amounting to 50^. a year, bj'- 

 the Sheriffs of Surrey and Sussex for the time being. J 



This inquisition was avowedly entered on the Pipe Roll in 

 order to show the authority for the payments to be made by 

 the Sheriffs of Surrey and Sussex to Anne and Edith Brocas 

 and their husbands. However, the only payment we have 

 found in their joint names occurs in the Pipe Roll of the 

 county Sussex for the 5th year of the reign of Henry VIII. 

 (A.D. April 22, 1513 — April 21, 1514), when George Warham 

 and Rudulpho Pexsall, Masters of the King's dogs — Magris 

 canu Regs. — received the usual stipend of 50^. by right of their 

 office. The money was paid to them jointly. Thomas Carnevill 

 was the huntsman ; John Love and John Stevens the two 

 berners, each of whom received the same remunerations as 

 heretofore allowed to their predecessors in the same employ- 

 ment. Anne Brocas, the wife of George Warham, eighth Here- 

 ditary Master, having died childless in 1514, the Manor of 

 Little Weldon, with the bailiwick appertaining to the King's 

 Buckhounds, passed to her sister Edith Brocas, the wife of 

 Ralph PexsaU, ninth Hereditary Master, who held the tenure 



* Eothwell (pronounced as spelt above), a celebrated racecourse ia the 

 seventeenth century. See " History of Newmarket and the Annals of the 

 Turf," vol. iii., v., Index. 



f In this, as in all other documents relating to the tenure of the Manor of 

 Little Weldon, the word used is custody {costod. canis^ damv.) of the King's 

 Buckhounds. It is only in the Pipe Rolls that the word " Master" is employed. 

 This seems to confirm the assumption that the Mastership did not merge into 

 the tenure before the first payment through the Sheriff of Sussex in 1363. 



% Pipe Roll, 5 Henry VIII. Item. Adliuc Sussex, dorso. 



