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pleasure is and Wee doe hereby comand that noe other p'sons 

 Whatsoever during the said tyme doe p'sume to transport and convey 

 any Doggs of what kinde soever without a passe from vs or the 

 lycense of the said John Gary or his Deputies first had and obtained 

 in that behalf And these our ires Patents shalbe as well vnto the 

 said Gary as to all others whome it shall or may concerne sufficient 

 Warrant and discharge in this behalfe. In witnes &'' Witnes our selfe 

 att Westm the five and twentieth day of July, '^ipsa Eegem. — 

 Patent Roll, 12 Gar. II., part 17, m. 12. 



About the same time he was appointed, conjointly with Lord 

 Ogleby and others, to receive all moneys formerly collected in 

 the county York, the Bishopric of Durham, the counties North- 

 umberland and Westmoreland remaining unpaid to the King, 

 the receivers to have a moiety of all sums so collected. On 

 November 30 he was authorised to dispose, as he thought fit, 

 of several herds of deer, to be provided both at home and 

 abroad, for stocking the royal parks and forests. In December 

 1663 he received a warrant on the Exchequer for -500/., "His 

 Majesty's free gift and princely bounty." On October 28, 

 1669, he was appointed to the office of Ranger, called the 

 Riding Forester, in the New Forest, with the fee of Qd. a day 

 during His Majesty's pleasure. About this time he obtained 

 a grant of the benefit of a covenant between the king and 

 Sir Francis Crane for keeping 300 deer, and convenient browse 

 and shade for the same, in Stoke Bruerne Park, co. North- 

 ampton, with power to sue in case of breach of the said 

 covenants, and to take the benefit thereof for his own use. 



It would appear by the subjoined Royal Letter that about 

 this time the Master of the Buckhounds had to observe and 

 report when any damage was done to the vert within the 

 precincts of the Royal Forests to the prejudice of the deer: — 



L*^ TreaQr. ^ Right Trusty &!^'^ Whereas Wee have been giuen 



Mr. Gary of ye to und'^stand That WiUiam Browne of Framby in 



Buckhoundes [Our County of Surrey is about grubbing some parts 



desire. j of a Cops called Merishwood in the Baly wicke of 



Sui-rey belonging to Our Castle of Windsor, the same being Our 



Demesne, & grubbing being contrary to law, Wee haue thought good 



