128 THE HISTOKY OF THE ROYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



Anthony Dodsworth, the Sergeant, received 200/. " for his 

 fee and wages due and payable as before " ; and apart from, 

 and not included under this head, 50/. additional in the form 

 of an annuity or pension " for an increase of allowance towards 

 the feeding and keeping of new hounds, payable quarterly and 

 due to him for the aforesaid time," amounting altogether to 

 250/. per annum. 



The following yeomen prickers were paid at the under- 

 mentioned rates — viz., Robert Hancock, wages 4.s. 2^h^d. a 

 day and 40.S'. per annum for livery; Anthony Holland, 4s. 

 a day wages and 20.s. per annum for livery ; Robert Walker, 

 3s. 8d. a day wages and 40s. per annum for livery ; W. Cocker, 

 W. Reading, J. Hake (" waggoner "), J. Cocker, H. Dodsworth, 

 J. Crockford, and W. Pitman ("yeomen"), each at 20(?. a day 

 wages and 20s. each per annum for livery ; E. Staunton, W. 

 Wetherall, and W. Ledman, " yeomen prickers," 2s. a day each 

 wages and 20s. each per annum for livery ; Francis Dodsworth, 

 "another yeoman pricker," at 2s. lid. a day wages and 40s. 

 per annum for livery ; Thomas White, yeoman pricker, at 

 8s. l^d. a day wages and 40s. per annum for livery; James 

 Kipling, at 22c/. a day wages (" as yeoman pricker ") and no 

 livery; W. Basse, " yeoman," 18d. a day wages and 20s. per 

 annum for livery. 



The following grooms are specifically mentioned — viz., R. Ray, 

 W. Goodwin, and George Fryer ("waggoner "), at 26/. 13s. 4d. 

 a year each wages and 20s. each per annum for livery ; 

 G. Fowler, W. Hopkins, and T. Ockley, at ISd. a day each 

 wages, and 20s. per annum each for livery ; W. Gwilliams, 

 J. Metcalfe, and T. Fowkles, 20/. a year each wages and 20s. 

 per annum each for livery. '' And to Ralph Read one of the 

 grooms of the said Buckhounds for his wages at ISd. a day 

 and 20s. per annum for his livery (the wages payable quarterly 

 and the livery at Christmas) and due to him for one quarter 

 and sixteen days in part of this year, 6/. 18s. S^d., and to 

 Bartholomew Dixon, succeeding him in the said place, by vertue 

 of H.M. letters under the signet, dated the 10th of March, anno 

 regis Caroli pred. 15*^", the first payment to begin from the 



