94 THE HISTOEY OF THE EOYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



participated in the spoil. Thus, on October 27, 1625, Thomas 

 Brocas and Abraham Chamberlain obtained from the king a 

 lease for twenty-one years of all mines of gold and silver in the 

 county Kerry, Ireland, without rent to his Majesty for the 

 two first years, and afterwards during the residue of the term 

 rendering to the Crown only the tenth part of the clear gains 

 of gold and silver derived therefrom ; and on February 6, 

 1626, Thomas Brocas obtained another grant of all the mines- 

 royal in the said county for a further term of twenty-one years. 

 It seems certain that this Hereditary Master of the Buckhounds 

 did not realise a colossal fortune out of those gold and silver 

 mines, as after he inherited his estates he was chiefly occupied 

 in selling the remnants of the property left to him by his 

 improvident father. With the exception of the Manor of 

 Little Weldon those transactions are irrelevant to our subject, 

 consequently it only remains to record that, during the three 

 years which Thomas Brocas held the Hereditary horn of the 

 Royal pack, he received the fees appertaining to the office 

 from the Sheriffs of Surrey and Sussex for one year only 

 — viz., in the 7th of Charles I. (1633), when he obtained the 

 sum of oOl. out of the issues of the county Sussex ; Edward 

 Remington being at the time the huntsman, and Thomas 

 Chaddock and George Chase the other hunt-servants under 

 him. As above mentioned, with the sale of the Manor of 

 Little Weldon to Sir Lewis Watson, the Mastership of this 

 branch of the Royal Buckhounds went to the new owners of 

 that property, by virtue of the terms of the patent of the 27th 

 Henry VI. This Thomas Brocas, Esq., married Elizabeth, 

 daughter of Sir R. Wingfield, by whom he had seven sons and 

 two daughters. He died in 1663. 



