154 THE HISTOKT OF THE KOYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



ship for the natural term of his life, with the wages and fee of 

 83/. 6s. Hd. per annum, payable quarterly out of the Exchequer, 

 at the usual feasts, and to hold the office in as full and ample 

 manner as his predecessor, Robert Tyrwhitt, Esq., " aut aliquis 

 al' offic'm ill' antehac." About a month prior to the date of 

 this patent we find the following royal warrant bearing the 

 King's signature was issued in Mr. Gary's behalf: — 



" Charles E.. 



" Our will and pleasure is That you prepare a Bill for our Eoyall 

 Signature conteyning a Privy Seale to Warrant & authorise Our 

 high Treasurer and vnder Treasurer of Our Exchequer for the time 

 being, out of such treasure as shall from time to time bee & remaine 

 in Our Receipt of Exchequer to issue and pay vnto Our Seruant 

 John Carey Esq'' Master of Our Buckhounds the Sum' of fewer 

 hundred pounds a yeare upon Accompt for the keeping of Our said 

 Buckhounds and all other the charges incident and belonging to y® 

 keeping of them excepting only the feeding for w'^^ there is an 

 allowance of one hundred pounds a yeare formerly given vnto 

 Francis Dodsworth by Lres Patents from Our Late Father of 

 glorious memory. The said Summe of fower hundred pounds to be 

 paid vnto the said John Carey or his sufficient Deputie or Deputies 

 quarterly by euen & equall Por'cions ; the first payment to begin 

 from the Feast of S*^ Michael last past, and to continue during Our 

 pleasure. For wh^*' this shalbee yo"" Warrant. Giuen at Our Court 

 at Whitehall the day of June 1661. 



By his Ma'® Command, 



Edw. Nicholas. 



To the Clerck of 



Our Signet attending." 



There are some conflicting circumstances in these two docu- 

 ments not easy to reconcile. The Master's salary, according to 

 his patent, is only 33/. 6s. 8d. a year, and he was only paid at 

 that rate" for one quarter of a year ended at Michaelmas 1G60, 

 viz., 8/. 6s. 8(/." B}^ the royal warrant his stipend is increased 

 to 400/. a year. But on the ensuing August 24 his salary on the 

 Civil List Establishment was further increased to 500/. a year 



