92 THE HISTOEY OF THE EOYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



Hereditary branch of the pack ; but whether his control ex- 

 tended to the whole or to only a portion of it is uncertain. He 

 enjoyed the same privilege and power as Silvester Dodsworth 

 and Sir Pexsall Brocas previously exercised, with free ingress 

 and egress to hunt in any grounds, parks, forests, and chases 

 belonging to the King or his subjects, in order to train hounds. 

 And he obtained an annuity of 50/. a year for life, over and above 

 his salary, emoluments, and allowances, as set forth in the 

 accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber. This arrangement 

 continued, without any material alteration, down to Lady-Day 

 1613, when the whole, or some portion, of the Hereditary pack 

 and a draft from the Privy or Household pack was formed 

 into a separate kennel for Charles, Duke of York. Timothy 

 Tyrrell, Esq., was appointed Master of it ; Robert Rayne still 

 continued to act as the sergeant. The other hunt-servants and 

 some particulars of this pack are given in our Memoir of Sir 

 Timothy Tyrrell, therefore it is unnecessary to further allude 

 to it here. It reappears again when it was incorporated in 

 the Household branch on the accession of Charles I. in 1625. 



The annual stipend of 50^., which had been paid by the 

 Sheriffs of Sussex to Sir Pexsall Brocas, without intermission, 

 from 1594 to 1625, terminated with the end of the reign of 

 James I. No further payment was made to this Hereditary 

 Master of the Buckhounds until the 3rd year of Charles I.'s 

 reign (1627-8), when he received the sum of 50L out of the 

 issues of the county Sussex, which is the final payment to him 

 recorded on the Pipe Rolls. At this date Edward Remington 

 was the huntsman, and Thomas Chaddock and John Mancell 

 or Morrell were the two yeomen prickers appertaining to this 

 branch of the Royal Buckhounds. Thus, during the thirty-six 

 years that Sir Pexsall Brocas held the Hereditary office of 

 Master of the Buckhounds, we find the annual fees allocated 

 towards the support of this branch of the royal pack were in 

 abeyance for fourteen years — viz., from the 26th to the 36th 

 Elizabeth, and the 1st and 2nd and the 4th and 5th of Charles I. 

 It is impossible to satisfactorily account for the nonpayment 

 of the money in the years above-mentioned. If the Master's 



