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and five daughters. She dying on August 8, 1570, he married, 

 secondly, Elinor, relict of Sir Richard Pexsallj, but had no 

 children by her, and in consequence of this alliance he became 

 the eleventh Hereditary Master of the Royal Buckbounds from 

 1574 to 1584, during which time he received 50^. a year from 

 the Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex in support of the office, as 

 above mentioned. 



Sir Pexsall Brocas, the twelfth Hereditary Master of the 

 Royal Buckbounds, temps. Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I. 

 — ^from 1584 to 1630 — was the eldest surviving son of Bernard 

 Brocas, Esq., of Horton, county Buckingham, and Anne, eldest 

 daughter of Sir Richard Pexsall, of Beaurepaire, county Hants. 

 Professor Montagu Burrows, in his work on " The Family 

 of Brocas, of Beaurepaire," tells us that young Pexsall Brocas 

 was brought up with his father and mother at Ickenham, 

 near London, from whence he was sent to Gray's Inn, of 

 which he became a member. Before he came of age it seems 

 he indulged rather freely in the dissipations of the Metropolis ; 

 and, even after attaining his majority, he preferred life in 

 London to hunting, home, and duty. Whether he claimed his 

 right to the Hereditary office of Master of the Buckbounds or 

 not when he came of age in 1584 we are unable to say ; but it 

 is evident that no payment was made to him, by right of that 

 post, by the Sheriffs of Surrey and Sussex, before the 36th 

 year of Elizabeth's reign — i.e., in 1594. It consequently 

 follows, so far as relates to the stipend usually allocated 

 towards the support of this department of the Royal Buck- 

 hounds, that it was financially in abeyance during those ten 

 years. But in 1594 he received his first payment as the 

 Hereditary Master of the Buckbounds — viz., 50^. This sum 

 comprised the Master's fee of Is. a day for his wages, 21. a year 

 for his livery, and the usual dole of 7^d. a day for his attendance 

 in court. His huntsman, Thomas Browne, the two principal 

 hunt-servants, Richard Mercer and Thomas Duke, received 

 the usual remuneration, with allowances for uniforms, and 

 for feeding and keeping the fifteen couples of hounds which 

 constituted this portion of the pack. During the remainder 



