JAMES DE GASTIGNY, FOURTEENTH MASTEE. 185 



Lord High Chamberlain, James de Gastigny, Esq., is given as 

 " Master of the Harthounds and Buckhounds " with a salary of 

 1,036^. a year. In the margin the date of his appointment is 

 entered, " September 9, 1689"; and in a later Establishment 

 Book of this Lord Chamberlain the following entry occurs : 

 " Richard Vincent, Baron d'Hompeche, Master of y*^ Harthounds 

 and Buckhounds upon y*^ surrender of James de Gastigny, 

 Esq." This entry is repeated in the Establishment Book of 

 the Earl of Jersey, Lord High Chamberlain, circa 1700, with a 

 supplementary inscription showing that John Branch was 

 re-appointed Sergeant of the Royal Buckhounds on February 

 13, 1691-2, with a salary of 200/. a year, "payable out of the 

 Treasury Chamber " (vol. 485, fo. 25). We can find no pay- 

 ments to the ofiicers of this branch of the pack in the Accounts 

 of the Treasurer of the Chamber from the time of their resump- 

 tion in 1694 to 1701, except in a special one, which exclusively 

 deals with arrears of salaries due on the Establishment from 

 1698 to Midsummer 1701, in which the following entry 

 occurs : — 



" James de Gastigny * (and Richard Vincent Baron de Hompesch 

 succeeding him), in the place of Master of the Buckhounds at 

 m'm'cccxlj'^ "^ ann. for themselves and servants and other charges, 

 and due for ifoure yeares & a quarter, ended at Midsumer, 1701, 

 ix'"Vx',xlix" v^" 



From this it appears that, from the year 1698 to 1701, those 

 Masters were entitled to the sum of 2,341/. a year for defraying 

 all the cost incident to the pack ; but as to whether they 

 received the amount prior to the year 1698, or after the year 

 ended at Midsummer 1701, we are unable to say; at any rate, 

 there is no entry of such save the one above mentioned. Ap- 

 parently, the Lords of the Treasury evinced reluctance to pay 

 the cost of the pack in those days, probably because they had 

 no money to spare ; perhaps they never saw those Masters, and 



* In John Chamberlain's Anglie Notitia for 1691 we find the following jjara- 

 graph : " James de Gastigny, Esq''., Master of the Hart and Buckhounds for 

 himself and the Huntsmen is allowed 2,341/. per annum."— Pp. 140, 164. 



