EGBERT DUDLEY, EAEL OF LEICESTER, SIXTH MASTER. 61 



in the greate Wardrobe dewe to him, viz., for fy ve hole yeares 

 and thre q"rters endyd at Mic^'as anno xiij"'° D'D' Re^°, 

 accompting from the daye of the death of the said Henrye 

 Sell, w'^^ was the xxj*'> of Februarye 1565 [-6] vntill M'^" afore- 

 said 1572, as by Certificate thereof remayning apperythe and 

 the saide Henrye Sell payed vntil x'pas anno viij'"° D'D' 

 Regine." 



In the account of (Sir) Thomas Henneage, Treasurer of the 

 Chamber of the Household from Michaelmas (1.3 and 14 Eliz.) 

 1571, to Michaelmas 1572, the name of the Earl of Leicester 

 as Master of the Buckhounds heads the audit list of the ofiicials 

 of the Royal Pack : — 



Also allowed for money paid to the righte honnorable Roberte, 

 Erie of Leicester, m'' of the quenes ma*^ Buckhoundes for his fee at 

 xxxiij^. vj^, viij^. p ann' paiable everie half yere at thannvm'ciacon' 

 of o'' Ladie and S^ Michell tharchaungelP by even porcoiis, viz., Paid 

 to hym for half a yere Due at m.^ last A° xiiij II. R. EUzabethe, by 

 vertvie of her ma"*^^ libate' Dormaunte vnder the greate Seale of 

 England. Dated at Westm' xxviij" die maij anno antedeo' . . . 

 xvj'^ xiij®. iiij^. 



Each of the acting hunt servants above mentioned were in 

 receipt of the same salaries and allowances, except Henry 

 Wood, one of the yeomen prickers, who died on June 6, up to 

 which date his wages were paid in full ; the whole cost of the 

 pack for this year being set down at 125^. 1 5s. lOd. The 

 following year it amounted to 161 Z. 4s. 6d., and continued at 

 about that sum until the end of Elizabeth's reign, so far as 

 relates to the annual accounts given in this series. Thomas 

 Dodsworth, one of the grooms of the Buckhounds, died on 

 January 10, 1574, "as appeareth by cirtificate subscribed w''' 

 the hands of the Curate and Church Wardens of Lewesham, in 

 the Countie of Kent." About the same time Henry Crockeson 

 succeeded Henry Wood, yeoman pricker, deceased. During 

 the following six or seven years no change had taken place in 

 the officials or the cost of the pack, according to the accounts 

 of the Treasurer of Chamber, save a trifling difference made to 



