86 THE HISTOEY OF THE EOYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



be seen that there was very little alteration in the constitu- 

 tion of this part of the pack from the time of Edward III. to 

 Elizabeth. As heretofore, the Master's fee was Is. a day and 

 21. a year for his official uniform, and 7hd. per day additional 

 when he was in attendance upon the Court. The same number 

 of hunt-servants were employed, their wages, liveries, and 

 allowances being substantially similar to those enjoyed by 

 their predecessors in office. The cost of the hounds' meat is 

 set down at the same figure as given in the original ordinance. 

 The total expense of this department of the Buckhounds 

 amounted to 501. a year. 



In 1565 Sir John Savage built " a fair new house " at 

 Clifton (afterwards called Rock-Savage), which his posterity 

 have ever since retained. Sir John was a very prominent 

 personage in Cheshire during many years in Elizabeth's reign. 

 He was Sheriff of the county in 1560, 1570, 1574, 1579, and 

 1591, and Mayor of the City of Chester in 1569, 1574, and 

 1597. In 1567 he was appointed, in conjunction with Sir Hugh 

 Cholmondeley and Sir Lawrence Smith, to view and make all 

 the levies for the expedition then fitting out and subsequently 

 despatched from Chester for service in Ireland. For this 

 purpose the Commissioners had to borrow certain sums of 

 money from merchants and other persons in Chester ; but it is 

 doubtful if they ever recovered the amount thus obtained from 

 the Treasury. In 1569 he and his brother magistrates of the 

 county Palatine formally made declaration to the Council of 

 having conformed to and accepted the Act of Parliament for 

 the uniformity of Common Prayer, out of duty to the Queen, 

 by whom was opened up to them " the plain path of virtue to 

 their eternal salvation." Sir John continued to take an 

 active part in similar local transactions relating to the county 

 Palatine until his death, which took place on December 5, 

 1597, when he was, for the third time. Mayor of Chester. His 

 descendants ascended, step by step, from knighthood, baronetcy, 

 viscountcy, earldom, to the dignity of Marquis of Cholmondeley. 

 This Sir John Savage married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of 

 Thomas Manners, Earl of Rutland, by whom he had five sons 



