SIR LEWIS WATSON, FOURTEENTH MASTER. 211 



As to Lord Rockingham's career after these events had taken 

 place, little more remains to be told. By virtue of the terms 

 of the surrender of Oxford, he had either to leave the country 

 within .six months, or compound for his estate. He chose the 

 latter; and on August 15, 1046, presented his petition to the 

 Committee for Compounding. In this document he returns 

 his property in the counties of Northampton, Leicester, Hunt- 

 ingdon, and Lincoln as being, " before these troubles, worth 

 2,225^. 8s. lOd. per annum ; and that there was owing to him 

 1,802^. 4s. 9d." Upon this statement he was amerced in a fine 

 of 4,312^., which he paid on November 2, 1G46, "when he was 

 restored to his estate." However, the sequestrators were not 

 yet done with him. They found out that he undervalued his 

 estate ; ordered a survey of it to be made, which was completed 

 on November 7, 1650, when it appeared that it was worth more 

 by 653/. a year than stated in his former composition, where- 

 upon they imposed an additional fine of 1,430/. This amount 

 he paid off in three instalments — viz., November 20, 5001. ; 

 November 22, 430Z. ; and November 23, 500/. In the course 

 of these investigations it transpired, in connection with some 

 Church land which he transferred, that he signed the deeds 

 " Rockingham," instead of Lewis Watson. This could not " by 

 any means be allowed of," consequently he was ordered to 

 further sign and seal the said deeds " by the name of Sir 

 Lewis Watson, and not by the title of Rockingham." He did 

 not long survive this indignity, as he died on January 5, 

 1652-3. His lordship married, first, Catherine, daughter 

 of Peregrine Bertie, Lord Willoughby of Eresbury, but by 

 her had no surviving issue; and, secondly, Eleanor, daughter 

 of Sir George Manners, of Haddon, county Derby, and sister 

 to John, Earl of Rutland, by whom he had a son, Edward, 

 his successor, and three daughters. 



We hear nothing further of the " Hereditary " branch of the 

 Royal Buckhounds or of its Masters until the Restoration, 

 when the usual payments were resumed to Edward Watson, 

 second Lord Rockingham, the fifteenth Master. The first 

 payment to this Manorial or Hereditary Master occurs on the 



