136 THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



further term of twenty -one years, by virtue of which he 

 obtained a monopoly to transport beyond the seas into any 

 kingdom or country in amity with the King three thousand 

 two hundred barrels of butter yearly to be bought in the 

 counties of Norfolk, Lincoln, and York, and other counties 

 north of the county of York ; he paying to the King 2s. 6d. 

 for every barrel of butter so transported, in lieu of all customs 

 and duties for the same. He was not to buy any butter 

 to be sent to any places where the price thereof exceeded 

 4c?. per lb. The grant was to be void in case the Lord High 

 Treasurer, or the Lords of the Privy Council, for the time 

 beinsf, declared it to be inconvenient. Remonstrances and 

 protests having been afterwards made relating to the hard- 

 ships and inconveniences arising therefrom, the grantee got 

 over the difficulty by paying a further rent of lOOl. to the 

 King, and so the matter rested in May 1631. In the meantime 

 this gallant cavalier obtained a grant for issuing billets upon 

 all suits commenced in His Majesty's Courts of Justice in 

 Wales, and the marshes of the same, with a fee of 2d. for every 

 billet so issued. The Lord President, the Chief Justice, and 

 justices within the Principality of Wales were commanded to 

 take notice thereof ; but the principal notice they took of this 

 new-fangled monopoly was to protest against it left and right ; 

 and the Attorney-General went so far as to draft a document 

 declaring the grant illegal. The King, however, was true to 

 his trusty servant, and quashed the Attorney-General's pro- 

 ceeding, consequently the grant remained in force. Subse- 

 quently a new difficulty arose between the grantee and his 

 deputy, who, in 1640, obtained an order in Chancery to fill 

 the office and perform the duties of it during his life. There- 

 upon the Master of the Buckhounds presented a formal 

 petition to the King, in which he set forth that " his daily 

 attendance on His Majesty " in various parts of the country 

 prevented him opposing the motion made by his deputy in 

 the Court of Chancery; that he had not time to instruct 

 counsel, and that as he dare not trust the management of 

 his cause to a solicitor, he prayed that the Lord Keeper be 



