50 THE HISTOKY OF THE EOYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



Sir Richard Long and Lord Darcy, of Chiche, Masters of 

 the Royal Buckhounds, are recited in the patent granted to 

 Sir Thomas Tyringham in 1603, as being among others his 

 predecessors in the branch of this pack under the Lord 

 Chamberlain of the Household ; but we are unable to say 

 when those masters were appointed or how long they filled 

 this office. Sir Richard Long died in 1545, and Lord Darcy in 

 1558. It is, therefore, evident that Sir Richard Long became 

 the second Master of the Household branch of the Royal 

 Buckhounds some time subsequent to the execution of George 

 Boleyne, Viscount Rochester. As previously noticed, the 

 accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber, which would 

 contain the payments to these Masters of this portion of the 

 royal pack, amounting to 33^. 6s. Sd. a year, are lost or missing. 

 If those interesting documents were available for consultation, 

 we could then ascertain when and for what period Sir Richard 

 Long filled the post. No enrolment of any patent or privy 

 seal conferring or relating to his appointment to the Buck- 

 hounds can be found, consequently we are quite in the dark as 

 to the principal incidents of his career relating to our subject. 

 This is particularly disappointing, as he seems to have been 

 the first Master of the Household part of the royal pack who 

 enjoyed during his tenure of office the annual fee of 33^. 6s. 8d. 

 — a figure at which the remuneration of those Masters remained 

 until the accession of Charles II. This Sir Richard Long, of 

 Shengay and Hardwicke, co. Cambridge, was the second son 

 of Sir Thomas Long, of Draycot-Cerne, co. Wilts. He was 

 knighted on October 18, 1537, when his arms were quartered 

 1st and 4th sable, crusily a lion rampant argent ; 2nd, argent 

 on a chief gules a bezant between two stags' heads cabossed 

 or; 3rd, gules, two wings conjoined or, and for his crest a 

 demi-lion rampant argent, holding in the mouth a human arm, 

 couped proper. Possibly the two stags' heads, which he then 

 bore in the second quarter of his coat, may have reference to 

 his office as Master of the Buckhounds, and he may have 

 obtained the appointment in succession to Lord Rochester at 

 or about this time. The valiant knight was " an esquire of 



