206 THE HISTOKY OF THE ROYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



in this deed, do not correspond with those mentioned in the 

 settlement effected between Sir John Savage and the Earl 

 of Rutland and others in the reign of Elizabeth, which we 

 reproduced in Chapter IV. In both of these deeds the term 

 " Master " is not used, but there is little doubt it was implied ; 

 and it is distinctly employed in the Pipe Rolls in the pay- 

 ments made to the holders of this manor in respect to the 

 office appertaining to the tenure from the time of Henry IV. 

 onward. It should likewise be noted here that the amount 

 of the fine above mentioned does not necessarily represent 

 the actual purchase money; in many cases the sums inserted 

 in those fines were merely a deposit on account to bind the 

 deal.* 



Now, as to Sir Lewis Watson, in his capacity as Manorial 

 or Hereditary Master of the Buckhounds, we find in the very 

 year after he acquired this office, as holder of the manor of 

 Little Weldon, he was paid the usual stipend of 501. out of the 

 issues of the county of Sussex. At this time (the 8th year 

 of the reign of Charles I., 1634) his huntsman was Edward 

 Remington, and the other two hunt-servants under him were 

 Thomas Chaddock and John Morrall, Thus the Master and 

 his men at this time were in receipt of the fees, allowances, 

 and liveries as in the palmy days of the feudal ages. These 

 payments continued to be derived from the same source in 

 the two following years; but we can find no payment to 

 Sir Lewis on the Pipe Rolls of the 11th of Charles I. How- 

 ever, in the ensuing one (12 Charles I., 1638), the payment 

 to him was again resumed, and it continued to be ]iaid 

 annually, without deduction, to the 15th year of Charles I. — 

 i.e., 1641. Instead of being paid, out of the issues of the 

 county of Sussex, as in the preceding instance, the funds 

 came out of the issues of the county of Surrey from the year 



* According to an I.P.M. taken at Winchester on January 9, 25 Elizabeth 

 (1583), the fourth part of the Manor of Little Weldon was valued at il. 6s. 8d. 

 per annum, and the bailiwick of the custody of the " canes venaticos Regis in 

 Anglice vocat the King's Buckhounds," with the fee of 501. for the keeping of 

 the same payable annually by the hands of the Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex. — 

 Harl. MS. 759. 56. 



