138 THE HISTORY OF THE EOYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



Chamber came to an abrupt end. Nor are they again resumed 

 until the Restoration. Hence we lose sio-ht of all details 

 relating to this branch of the Royal Buckhounds for nearly 

 twenty-one years. Very little remains to be told of this 

 Master of the Buckhounds. He followed his unhappy 

 sovereign throughout the Civil War, and, to use his own 

 words, was in "daily" attendance upon him, from 16-40, until 

 the flight of Charles I. from Oxford, on the night of April 

 27, 1646, severed the intimacy which had prevailed for 

 many years between the King and this Master of the Buck- 

 hounds. Tyrwhitt remained in the besieged city for nearly 

 two months ; and when the royal garrison surrendered to the 

 Parliamentary forces, he obtained from General Sir Thomas 

 Fairfax a pass, dated June 22, 1646, to go forth with his 

 servants, horses, arms, and all other necessaries, and to repair, 

 without molestation, to London, or elsewhere, upon his 

 necessary occasions, and with protection to his person, goods, 

 and estate, and to have liberty at any time within six months 

 to go with his servants, etc., beyond the seas. However, we 

 find he remained at home, as on June 28 he presented " his 

 humble petition" to the Committee for Compounding with 

 Delinquents, at Goldsmith Hall, London, in which he describes 

 himself as one of His Majesty's Equerries and Master of the 

 Buckhounds. He stoutl}^ declared his loyalty to the King, 

 confessed that he attended on His Majesty's person " ever since 

 the begininge of theis troubles, but was never in armes or 

 had any martiall imployment whatsoever." Unlike many of 

 the cavaliers, he neither took the negative oath nor conformed 

 to the National Covenant ; and for his delinquencies he sub- 

 mitted to the Sequestrators his poor estate, which at the 

 time only consisted of a rent-charge of 200Z. per annum out of 

 the manors of Butters wick and Freeston, in the county of 

 Lincoln, and Kirkdighton, in the county of York. He adds 

 that he held, by letters patent, the oflice of Lieutenant of the 

 Forests of Alice Holt and Wolmer, in the county of Southamp- 

 ton, during the term of his life, the fees of which amounted 

 to Sll. lis. lOcl. From his statement of his income we may 



