140 THE HISTORY OF THE ROYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



he compounds vpon a perticuler deliuered vnder his hand by 



which he doth submit to such Fine &c. and by which it doth 



appeare, 

 That he is seized of an Annuity or rent charge duringe tearme 



of I his life issueinge out of tlie manno'"* of Butterwicke and 



Freeston in the County of Lincoln, and Kirkdighton in the 



County of Yorke of the yeerely value of 200^\ 

 Whereof there is foure yeers arreare, for which he also desires to 



compound. 

 That he is Leiutenant by Ires Patents of the Forrests of Alice Holt 



and Wolmer in the County of Southampton dui'ingo tearme of 



his life, the fee thereof is 311. lis. lOd. 

 19 December 1646. 



Fine 200/. 



His occupation gone, his estate sequestrated, and without 

 hope for the future, Robert Tyrwhitt lingered unmolested at 

 Hampton Court for a few years. He died on January G, 

 1651, aged sixty-one, and was buried in Hampton Church, 

 where a monument is erected to his memory. 



Now, in bringing this chapter to a conclusion, and in taking 

 a retrospective view of the affairs of the Royal Buckhounds 

 during the reigns of the first and second sovereigns of the 

 House of Stuart, one is naturally struck by the absence of 

 any full and reliable account of the " runs " with the pack, 

 particularly as ample and authentic details abound relating 

 to the annual expenses and the entire staff from 1603 to 

 1640. Unfortunately we have no means to enable us to 

 supply an omission so important and so interesting. It is the 

 old story, and one that shall endure in these pages until we 

 approach the reign of George II., when the chroniclers of that 

 time devoted some attention in recording some of the passing 

 events of the " Sport of Kings." There is, notwithstanding, 

 no lack of inferential evidence by which we can, to some 

 extent, picture to ourselves the pleasures of the chase as it 

 was then enjoyed by the followers of the Royal Buckhounds. 

 But no scribe or " intellenwer " of that era ever dreamt that 



