212 THE HISTOKY OF THE EOYAL BUCKHOUNDS. 



Pipe Roll of the county Surrey for the twelfth regnal year of 

 Charles II. (1660), in which his Lordship is described as the 

 holder of the Manor of Little Weldon, alias Hunter's Manor in 

 the county of Northampton, Master of the King's dogs, called 

 Buckhounds. His fee of 12r/. per day, 2/. for his livery, \d. 

 a day for the food of 30 hounds from Michaelmas to Mid- 

 summer, 7|r/. a day for his attendance when at Court, and the 

 wages and liveries of his huntsman and two other hunt-servants 

 are recited as formerly allowed. Edward Bradshaw was pro- 

 moted to the post of Huntsman with the usual wages of 'Zd. 

 per day, and Robert Brightmore and Robert Ridall now were 

 the two " varlets berners," with a salary of l^r/. a day 

 each, in succession to Robert Bowett and Richard Kilbourne, 

 who had filled those offices in the reign of the " Martyred 

 Monarch." From the 12th to the 25th year of the reign of 

 Charles II. Lord Rockingham received his annual stipend of 

 •50/. a year in full out of the issues of the county Surrey ; for 

 the 26th year he only received 23/. 126-. 9^. on account, but the 

 balance was paid, with other sums on account, to him in the 

 following year, and in the 28th year all overstanding arrears 

 were paid to him in full. In the 29th and .30th years he 

 was also paid his stipend in full, but in the 81st year he 

 only obtained 37/. 19s. Qd. on account. However, as he 

 received 62/. Os. Qd. in the next year, the balance due, with 

 the full salary for the current year, was consequently satisfied 

 down to date ; and from the 33rd to the 36th years of the 

 reign of Charles II. his stipend was paid promptly without 

 deduction. As the 87th year of the reign of Charles II. only 

 covered a few weeks (the King having died on February 5, 

 1685), the Pipe Rolls for that year are included in the 1st 

 year of the reign of James II., in which we find that Lord 

 Rockingham was paid 50/. out of the issues of the county 

 Sussex, by the hands of the Sheriff thereof, as appears by his 

 lordship's acquittance, dated June 7, 1687 ; he also received a 

 like sum out of the issues of the county Surrey for the 2nd 

 year of the reign of James II. (1686-7), but the amount was 

 not paid until July 4, 1688. We can find no payments to this 



