96 THE HISTORY OF THE EOYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



received 13^. 6s. 8d. a year "for hounds meat for the said 

 hounds." Thomas Forest, groom, obtained 61. 13s. 4cZ. a year. 

 He had no livery. Robert Ducke, yeoman pricker, at 6d. a 

 day for his wages, and 6^. 3s. 10c?. per annum for his summer 

 and winter liveries, was paid lol. Qs. 4!d. Richard Mercer and 

 John Broughton, yeomen prickers, had 151. a year each for 

 their wages, and 11. per annum each for their liveries. Four 

 grooms in livery — viz., William Sale, alias Dilly, Richard 

 Monday, Thomas Murralde, and Anthony Duck received 

 61. 13s. 4<d. each, a year, for their wages, and 81. 3s. lOd. 

 per annum, each, for their summer and winter liveries. All 

 these several sums were payable quarterly, and, as before 

 mentioned, amounted in the aggregate to 164^1. 6s. 7d. Thus 

 we find that the Household branch of the Royal Buckhounds, 

 during the last whole year of Queen Elizabeth's reign, ended 

 at Michaelmas 1602, consisted of the Sergeant, three yeomen 

 prickers, and five grooms. 



1602-3. The next account of the Treasurer of the Chamber, 

 from Michaelmas 1602 to Michaelmas 1603, only embraced the 

 last half-year, minus two days (from Michaelmas 1602 to Lady- 

 Day 1602-3), down to the death of Queen Elizabeth; and the 

 half-year of the first regnal year of James I. plus two days 

 (from Lady-Day 1602-3 to Michaelmas 1603). In this account 

 we therefore obtain the staff and the cost of the pack as it ran 

 down to the death of Queen Elizabeth, and the changes which 

 ensued from Lady -Day 1602-3 to Michaelmas 1603 — the latter 

 half-year being in the first regnal year of King James I.'s 

 reign. Consequently the last half-year of Elizabeth's reign and 

 the first half-year of the reign of James I. (to September 29, 

 1603) constituted together, in these accounts, one whole year, 

 from September 29, 1602, to September 29, 1603. A brief 

 analysis shows that all the old staff" under the late Queen were 

 now in the same service under James I., and that their 

 remuneration and allowances remained substantially, for the 

 present, as heretofore. 



Apart from this standing arrangement an increase in the 

 officials of the pack immediately ensued. First, Anthony 



