36 THE HISTOEY OF THE EOYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



seems they also provided the hounds meat, " chippings " — now 

 known as " dog biscuits " — for which they received from 95. to 

 9s. 4d^. a month. They were likewise entitled to a livery coat 

 yearly, which cost IZ. 2s. Qd., and on occasion a donation of 

 lis. or 12s. wherewith to buy a jerkin of Kendal green. 

 Richard Pery died in 1529, from which date onwards we find 

 some changes in the hunt servants. A hound- van is mentioned, 

 and some miscellaneous disjointed particulars so far as it came 

 within the scope of the privy purse expenses of Henry VIII., 

 from 1529 to 1532 :— 



1528. * •■?• f^- 



Dee. 30. Paid to Hvimphrey of the privy hounds for 



meat by the space of one month .... 9 



1529. 

 June 30. Paid to Humphrey Raynezford* for chippings 

 for the king's privy buckhounds for two 

 months the wliich be ended the last day of 

 June 18 8 



Nov. 29. Paid to him for chippings for a month ..090 



1530. 



Jan. 25. Paid to him for chippings for the king's privy 



buckhounds for one month 12 4 



Feb. 26. Paid to him for chippings 9 4 



March 12. Paid to him for a month's wages now ended .094 

 „ 28. Paid to him for one month now ended (sic) .094 



messuage of the Manor of Shephall and of divers lands there, which belonged 

 to the Monastery of St. Albans, Herts. On October 20, 1537, Henry Sell, 

 yeoman pricker (valet j^ry^^e^') of the Buckhounds, obtained a grant for life of 

 the site of the manor and lordship of Cherton, Herts, with all houses, barns, 

 edifices, orchards, and gardens thereunto belonging by the payment of a red 

 rose (unam ruhrain rosam^ per annum upon St. John the Baptist's Day. Also 

 twenty-four acres of meadow in " Le Frethe " in the said lordship, from the 

 death of Henry, late Duke of Richmond and Somerset, at the annual rent of 3Z. 

 Also to be keeper of the wood called " Lee Old Park,' in the said lordship, with 

 fees of 13s. 4<Z. per year, and one " holowe oke " yearly out of the same wood. 



* The names of these gentlemen are spelt in all sorts and manner of ways. 

 Dodsworth's descendants were connected with the royal hunting establishment 

 until nearly the close of the Stuart dynasty. A member of this family owned 

 and probably bred the famous stallion of that name which forms the foundation 

 of Weather by 's Stud Book. 



