EALPH PEXSALL, NINTH HEREDITARY MASTER. 27 



1532, he was among the witnesses present when Henry VIII. 

 took the Great Seal from the custody of Thomas Audley, 

 and, after holding it for a quarter of an hour, " returned it 

 to the custody of the said Thomas Audley, appointing him 

 Chancellor of England." About this time Ralph Pexsall seems 

 to have disposed of the reversion of his office of Clerk of 

 the Crown to Thomas Pope, including his livery of a fur 

 robe of office, which he obtained annually from the Great 

 Wardrobe. This is the last reference we have found of this 

 joint Hereditary Master of the Royal Buckhounds. He died 

 c. 1540. By Edith, his wife, who died in 1517, he had issue 

 two sons, John Pexsall, Esq., who died without heirs, and Sir 

 Richard Pexsall, knight, the tenth Hereditary Master of the 

 Buckhounds, whose demise occurred in the 13th year of 

 Queen Elizabeth's reign, a.d. 1571. 



