40 THE HISTOEY OF THE KOYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



1532. £ s. d. 



Sept. 12. Paid to him, Dodsworth, and Mundy, £oi^ 



their hovinds' meat for one month ... 1 7 

 ,, 19. Paid to him for the cart with hounds from 



Windsor to Chertsey 2 



„ 30. Paid to him for his cart with hounds from 



Hampton Court to Greenwich .... 2 6 

 Oct. 7. Paid to him, Dodsworth, and Mundy, for their 



month's wages 170 



Nov. 28. Paid to him, Walter Dodsworth, and Ralph 

 Mundy, for their wages for two months 



now ended 2 14 



Dec. 24. Paid to him, Ralph [Mundy], and Walter 

 [Dodsworth], to every of them 22s. Qd. for 



their coats 3 7 6 



„ 25. Paid to him and Walter [Dodsworth], " the 

 houts " for their hounds' meat for one 

 month 170 



George Boleyne, Viscount Rochester, the First Master 

 of the " Privy " or Household branch of the Buckhounds to 

 Henry VHI. from 1528 to 1536, vras the third son and heir 

 of Sir Thomas Boleyne, Viscount Rochford, Earl of Wiltshire 

 and Ormonde, K.G., by Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Tliomas 

 Howard, second Duke of Norfolk, E.M., K.G. He was born 

 at Hever Castle, Kent, about the year 1509. It is a somewhat 

 singular circumstance that this castle, in which the young 

 viscount was born and in which he chiefly resided during his 

 youth, belonged to Sir Oliver Brocas when the Royal Buck- 

 hounds were first instituted in the reign of Edward III. 

 " Hever," says Mr. William Hepworth Dixon, in his " History 

 of Two Queens," " was poetic and retired. Beyond the moat 

 and garden lay an orchard and a bowling-green. Not many 

 paces ofi" the river Eden brawled and chafed among the stones. 

 Grassland and woodland stretched on every side ; here swell- 

 ing into mound and ridge, there dropping into flat and marsh. 

 Some rare and famous nooks lay screened amidst these depths 

 of wood. Seven miles north stood Knole, where Warham 



