178 THE HISTORY OF THE EOYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



Mastership can be found after that granted to John Gary in 

 1C61, and that relating to the reversion of his office in 1675 

 (which became null and void by the death of Charles II., in 

 1685); and from henceforward the Masters were appointed 

 by the sovereigns during their pleasure, and so continued 

 until the appointment subsequently became a quasi-political 

 office, changing with a change of ministers. Thus the first 

 payment recorded in the Accounts of the Treasurer of the 

 Chamber of the Household, on the accession of James II., is 

 as follows : " To James Grahme, Esq., Master of His Majesty's 

 Buckhounds, for the wages of himself, the serjeant, and hunts- 

 men of the said Buckhounds, according to the establishment, 

 at 1,320/. per annum, pa3^able quarterly, to continue during 

 his Majesty's pleasure, by warrant under the Signet dated the 

 1st of September, 1685, and here allowed for the first quarter 

 of a year ending at Midsummer, 1685, 330/." This Master's 

 annual allowance on the Civil List was paid at full for the 

 years ended at Midsummer 1686 and 1687, and for the year 

 ended at Michaelmas 1688, when he ceased to hold the office : 

 James II. having been deposed, and William of Orange elected 

 by the Parliament to fill the vacant throne. 



Before closing these Accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber, 

 we may mention that 100/. was paid in 1686 to Thomas Frazer, 

 " His Majesty's chirurgeon, to ride with him a-hunting." This 

 " hunting chirurgeon to his Majesty " was sworn into his office 

 by the Lord High Chamberlain on May 8, 1685 ; he was pro- 

 moted to the office of Surgeon to the Household (with a salary 

 of 280/. a year, to begin at Christmas 1686), when Francis 

 Beaulieu was sworn as his successor " to attend his Majesty 

 in hunting." So far as we are aware, James never required 

 their services in the hunting field ; but William III. certainly 

 did, as we shall have occasion to record presently. 



Colonel James Graham, M.P., thirteenth Master of the 

 Household branch of the Royal Buckhounds, temp. James II. — 

 from March 25, 1685, to September 29, 1688 — was the second 

 son of Sir George Graham, Bart., of Esk (Netherby), county 

 Cumberland, and Lady Mary Johnstone, his wife, eldest 



