84 THE HISTOKT OF THE EOYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



cle XV chiens currants pour chascu de eulx ob le io"'. Et lez gages pour 

 ang varlect barner pour xl io'' en quai'isme que anly seront au lez 

 Constages du diet John Savage pour lez Statuts dull' ostiell mesme 

 nfe Dame. Et anxi quitts faire paiement a diet John pour lez gages 

 en la Cote vij*^* ob le io"". Le susdict John Withers vealterer ij'^ le io' 

 et a diet Guillam Gardin' et Allano Bowett pour chascii de eulx j'^ ob 

 le io^ pour leur gage, vj lenryers et xxiiij°'' chiens currants chascti de 

 eulx ob le io"^ de xxv'^° io"" de Jvigne debant diet, tanq'' a xxix™° io"" de 

 Septemb'' adunq"^ prochaine ensuivant lung et lautre io"^ accomptz. 

 Et Veltre plus quil faire payment a diet John Savage pour cez deulx 

 Robes, pour la xl^. Et a lez vealterers et Barn's poui* lure Eobes 

 chascu de eulx xiij® iiij''. Et pour chamicz povir chascu de evilx iiij*. 

 iiij''. pour Ian. Don' a la maneir de Grenwiche le xxv™° io"" de 

 Septembris Ian le Reign' de nre soverigfie Dame Elizabeth '^ la grace 

 de dien Royne dangliterr' ffraiic et direlands def endo'^' de la f oye xx"'*'. 



Ex™ p Gregor' Lovell, Clerc, Compt. 

 A Treshono*" Seignfe gardian du privie Seau de nre Dame la Royne. 



The French of Stratford-le-Bow, which had been immortal- 

 ised by Chaucer about the time when the Royal Buckhounds 

 were instituted under the first Hereditary Master in the reign of 

 Edward III., compares favourably with the language of diplo- 

 macy " as she was writ " by the scribe attached to the Court 

 of Queen Elizabeth, when he indited the royal commands to the 

 Keeper of the Privy Seal, directing him to issue a writ to the 

 Sherifi" of Surrey and Sussex to pay Sir John Savage and his 

 staff the several sums due to them on account of the cost of 

 this branch of the pack for the year 1578, as transcribed yer- 

 batim et literati7)i above. The Lord Privy Seal acted promptly 

 on his instructions, as we learn from an entry on the Memo- 

 randa Roll of that year, as also from the following extract in 

 the Pipe Roll, showing that the Sheriff, by virtue of the Privy 

 Seal in question, paid out of the issues of the county of Sussex 

 the sum of 50^. to Sir John Savage for the purposes therein 

 set forth : — 



" Di Johi' Savage militi magro canu dne Regine niic '^ damis 

 capiendi xij** '^ diem '^ vadii' suis extra cur' ac Johi' Wether veantr' 



