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CHAPTER VII. 



HOUSEHOLD BRANCH— CHARLES IL, 1660-1G85. 



John Gary, Esq., Twelfth Master : July 7, 1661 to February 5, 1685.— The Hunt- 

 Servants. — Their Salaries, Fees, and Emoluments. — The Cost and Affairs of 

 the Pack during the Reign of Charles II. — Deer. 



John Gary, Esq., Twelfth Master of the Household branch 

 of the Royal Buckhounds, temp. Charles II. — from July 7, 

 1661, to February 5, 168.5 — was the son and heir of Sir 

 Philip Cary, of Chaddington, county Herts. Who his mother 

 was we are unable to say, as she is not even mentioned in 

 any of the family pedigrees in print or in MS. available 

 for reference, neither is her son, the subject of this memoir, 

 whose life and career is a blank in biographical literature. 

 His father was knighted by James I. at Greenwich, on 

 March 2.S, 1605 ; he died in June 1631. Sir Philip Cary's 

 eldest brother, Sir Henry Cary, first Viscount Falkland, was 

 killed in Theobald's Park in September 1633, through the 

 collapse of a stand upon which he was viewing some hunting 

 or racing match. As to his Lordship's nephew, the Master of 

 the Buckhounds to whom we are now referring, the earliest 

 occurrence of his name in the State Papers of this period is 

 in reference to the appointment, conferred upon him by 

 James I., to the Custody of Marylebone Park, in the county 

 of Middlesex — an office that had been held by his ancestors 

 from the timo of Queen Elizabeth. In his patent to this 

 ofiice (which is dated at Westminster Palace, February 7, 

 1622), he, or his sufficient deputy, or deputies, obtained a 

 grant (of the custody) of the whole of Marylebone Park for 



