116 THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



assignes, hounds and greyhounds for His Majesty's disport." 

 In August 1604 he received another commission from the 

 King for the preservation of the red deer in the Manor of 

 Knotting. By a warrant dormant, dated July IS, 1607, the 

 Keeper of the Royal Wardrobe was commanded to supply this 

 Master of the Buckhounds with " stuff for his livery." Un- 

 fortunately, as in the case of all warrants dormant in the 

 accounts of the Great Wardrobe in those days, no description 

 is given of the materials from which the official uniforms of 

 the Master or the subordinate officers of the pack were made ; 

 nothing save the entry of the cost of the " livery " is given, 

 consequently we are unable to tell at present (although we 

 hope to do so later on) how those individuals were attired 

 for the Royal chase. Early in the following year the King 

 wrote to Sir Thomas Oxenbridge, to permit Sir Thomas 

 Tyringham to follow the Buckhounds into his grounds, which 

 were probably protected by a grant of free warren or free 

 chase. On July 4, 1618, Sir Thomas obtained a grant in 

 reversion, after Sir Charles Howard, of the Keepership of the 

 Great Park of Windsor. In July 1614 a warrant was issued 

 under the Great Seal to furnish him with sixteen beds and 

 provision for thirty horses, and for the King's hounds, in all 

 places adjacent to the Court, " at reasonable prices " ; and in 

 April 1621 he received a similar warrant, empowering him to 

 take up, in places adjacent to the Court, beds, stable room, 

 etc., on his own terms, which must have been a questionable 

 blessing to those who had such valuable places to let. In 

 July 1623 the King wrote to the Earl of Nottingham, Chief 

 Justice in Eyre, south of Trent, expressing a desire that Sir 

 Thomas Tyringham should succeed Mr. Creswell, lately de- 

 ceased, as the Keeper of one of the walks in Windsor Great 

 Park, " his office rendering him the fittest man for it," a royal 

 recommendation that had the desired effect. Some curious 

 circumstances occurred at Windsor Park during this Master of 

 the Buckhounds' term of office upon which he had to adjudicate. 

 A keeper there, who committed an assault on a man, was con- 

 demned in a fine of 71. or imprisonment ; while another keeper. 



