82 THE HISTOEY OF THE KOYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



espoused Anne, the eldest of Sir Richard Pexsall's four 

 daughters and co-heirs, who (by will, dated October 19, 1571), 

 having all bequeathed to her, brought the ancient seat and 

 hereditaments into the name again, after it had for sixty-five 

 years been possessed by that of Pexsall. But Sir Richard 

 Pexsall's widow. Lady Eleanor, having married, secondly, Sir 

 John Savage, he began a suit to upset the family settle- 

 ments — a subject which we need not go into here, as it is 

 detailed in Professor Burrows' volume, the upshot being that 

 from the death of Sir Richard Pexsall, in 1571, to the year 

 1573 no payment was made by the Sheriff of Surrey and 

 Sussex to any Hereditary Master of the Buckhounds. During 

 those three years the post seems to have been in abeyance. 

 In the interval Sir John Savage married Sir Richard Pexsall's 

 widow, and by the subjoined deed of settlement, he, as the 

 holder of the fourth part of the Manor of Little Weldon, 

 became, by the family arrangement, the " Hereditary " Master 

 of the Buckhounds : — 



" This Indenture, made the three and twentithe dale of Male in 

 the fifteenthe yeare of the reign of our sov'igne ladie Elizabeth by 

 the grace of God, of Engiande, Eraunce, and Ireland, defender of 

 the faith, &c., Whereas S"" John Savage of Clifton in the countie 

 of Chester knighte vpon the one '¥''tie : And the righte honorable 

 Edward Earle of Rutlande, John Manners of Haddon ui the countie 

 of Derbie esquire, Roger Manners esquire, one of the Queene's Ma"^* 

 esqviires of the bodie, and Richard Buckley of Chednell in citie of 

 Chester esquire vpon the other '^'ortic Witnessithe that whereas 

 John Jobson late of the citie of London esquire, aiid EKzabeth 

 Jobson wife of the said John, one of the daughters and coheirs of 

 S"" Richarde Pexall late of Barow per aP Bewre per in the countie of 

 Southampton knighte lawfidlie conveyed and assured as well by 

 fyne as otherwise the fourthe %*''tes of the manners of Bawrep aP 

 Bewreper &c. . . . with theh appiirtenances &c. . . . And also the 

 forth p'tes of the manner of Little Weldon with thapp'tn'ces, and 

 tenne toftes, ten gardens, two hundi-ed acres of land, fFoure and 

 twentie of medowe, two hundreth acres y*^ pasture, and tenne acres 

 of woode with th'app'tence's in Little Weldon : And the foui"th p'tes 

 of the Bailiewicke of the custodie or keepinge of the kinges Bucke- 



