119 



CHAPTER VI. 

 HOUSEHOLD BRANCH.— CHARLES 1. 



1625—1649. 



Annual Expenses of the Pack during the Reign of Charles I., from 1625 — 1640. 

 — The Masters and the Hunt-Servants. — Their Salaries, Fees, and Emolu- 

 ments. Sir Timothy Tyrell, Ninth Master : March 26, 1625 to May 19, 1633. 

 —Sir Thomas Tyringham (ii.), Tenth Master : May 20, 1633 to January 1637. 

 —Robert Tyrwhitt, Esq., Eleventh Master : May 4, 1637 to January 6, 1651. 

 —Reflections on Sport with the Pack from 1603 to 1640. — Hunting-Horses. 

 — Hunting Matches. — The Royal Studs.— Deer and Hound-Vans. — The 

 Equerries of the Hunting Stables. — Hunting with the Pack during the 

 Commonwealth. — Poaching. — Destruction of the Deer. — Fate of the Royal 

 Hunt-Servants. 



1624-25. — The first Account of the Treasurer of the Chamber 

 of the Household, in the reign of Charles I., from September 

 29, 1624, to September 29, 1625, includes the expenses of 

 the "Privy," or Household branch of the Royal Buckhounds 

 for the last half year (plus two days) of the reign of 

 James I. (who died on March 27, 1625), and for the half 

 year of the first regnal year of Charles I. (minus two days), 

 ended on September 29, 1625. In this audit we there- 

 fore ascertain the cost and the 'personnel of this pack as it 

 was on the establishment down to the death of James I., 

 and as it was reorganised during the first half year of the 

 reign of Charles I. It will serve our purpose here to briefly 

 mention that no material change had taken place in the state 

 of its afiairs down to the death of James I. ; but on the 

 accession of Charles I. many changes supervened, as we shall 

 have occasion presently to notice. However, as this account of 



