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requested to stay further proceedings until the next term, 

 when he would be prepared to show cause that the said order 

 should not stand. Before the next term came round the 

 Roundheads gave the King and the cavaliers other work to 

 do, and in the troubles that ensued billets of another sort put 

 the 2d. billets of the Master of the Buckhounds quite out of 

 court, consequently the final issue of this curious legal tempest 

 in a teacup is lost to posterity. 



In following the windings of these monopolies we have got 

 somewhat ahead of other and more important incidents in the 

 course of Bobert T3'rwhitt's eventful life. In May 1632 he 

 obtained a gi-ant of the manor and park of Hendley, couatj^ 

 Surrey, at an annual rent of 10^. and a fine of 850/. to the 

 Exchequer. In December 1634 he had licence to travel beyond 

 the seas with three servants, 50/. in money, and all his necessary 

 carriages. On April 12, 1636, a despatch was sent by the 

 King to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, with a petition enclosed 

 in favour of Robert Tyrwhitt, Esq., " His Majesty's servant." 

 This is the last time he is so styled in the contemporary State 

 papers. Afterwards he appears as the Master of the Buck- 

 hounds, having been appointed to that post, in succession to 

 Sir Thomas Tyringham, by patent, dated at Westminster, 

 May 4, 1637. * This document is substantially the same 

 (mutatis mutandis) as that granted to his predecessor by 

 James I. in 1603, except that the new Master's salary was 

 payable quarterly instead of half yearly, as in the previous 

 cases. Practically his tenure of office must have been a brief 

 and sorrowful one. The times were sadly out of joint. 

 Hunting, racing, and all our national field sports were almost 

 abandoned during this appalling interval. As we have seen, 

 Robert Tyrwhitt received his annual salary of 33/. 6s. 8d. 

 down to the year ended at Michaelmas 1640, and the last 

 payment to him was for half a year ended at Michaelmas 

 1642. With that year the accounts of the Treasurer of the 



* He was appointed Master of the Buckhounds by writ of Privy Seal, dated 

 April 16, 1637, but the patent was not enrolled until May 4, 1637, which probably 

 accounts for the difference in the dates of the two documents. 



