JOHN CAEY, ESQ., TWELFTH MASTER. 151 



fee of 20/, a year and a pension of 100/. per annum. We 

 can find no patent or lenrolment of this appointment; the 

 office must have been a nominal one during those days of 

 civil strife, and from 1641 to 1660 it was necessarily in total 

 abeyance. We cannot find any payments to Mr. Gary by 

 right of this office, nor to the hunt-servants under him ; but 

 those officials asserted their respective claims after the P.,esto- 

 ration, and had their claims allowed, as we find they were 

 promoted to somewhat similar posts in the regal pack, when 

 the Royal Buckhounds were re-established in 1660-61. 



As we have already mentioned in the preceding chapter, 

 according to the terms of the capitulation of Oxford, Mr. Gary 

 had the option of quitting the country, or to compound for 

 his estates within six months. He adopted the latter course, 

 apparently with great reluctance, having delayed to avail 

 himself of the period of grace allowed to delinquents until 

 the last moment. This conduct excited the suspicions of the 

 Parliamentarians, by whom he was accused of infringing the 

 terms of the treaty of Oxford; and although he escaped at 

 the time, the charge was subsequently renewed, which in- 

 volved him in serious consequences. By order of both Houses 

 of Parliament he obtained licence, on December 12, 1646, to 

 continue within the cities of Westminster and London, or 

 elsewhere within the lines of communication, or within twenty 

 miles distant of the said lines, for the purpose of proceed- 

 ing with the composition of his estate. This proved a tedious 

 affair, as his petition to the Committee for Gompounding 

 was not presented until April 20, 1649. In this document 

 he describes himself as " John Gary, of Maribone Park, in 

 the county of Middlesex, Esq.," and he sets forth that, 

 being a sworn servant in ordinary to the late King, he did 

 by His Majesty's command attend his person at Oxford, 

 and other garrisons held against the Parliament, and did 

 adhere to the King, but never was in arms.* He then 



* It seems, nevertheless, he took an active part in the affairs of the King, and 

 transacted, under cover, some delicate correspondence with the Loyalists out- 

 side of Oxford, as appears from Baillie's Letters and Correspondence. 



