EDWARD, LORD EOCKINGHAM, FIFTEENTH MASTER. 213 



Manorial or Hereditary Master of the Backhounds on the Pipe 

 Rolls of Surrey or Sussex for the 3rd or 4th years of the 

 reign of James II. Probably the impending Revolution may 

 have had something to do with the nonpayment of this 

 Master's stipend in the 3rd and the 4th (and last) year 

 of James II.'s reign, which terminated on December 11, 1688- 

 And, as Lord Rockingham was a Whig, it is very likely the 

 King or his ministers refused to pass the Privy Seal, and 

 without the production of that writ the Sheriffs of Surrey 

 and Sussex were not warranted to pay the Master or his staif 

 the tax imposed upon those counties towards the support of 

 this branch of the Royal Buckhounds. Compared with the 

 Household portion of the pack, this Hereditaiy Master and his 

 hunt-servants were much more fortunate in receiving their 

 wages and allowances, which were paid from 1G60 to 1637 

 without any arrears having been encountered, save in the few 

 temporary instances above mentioned. This Edward Watson, 

 second Baron Rockingham, Manorial or Hereditary Master of 

 the Buckhounds, temps. Charles II., James II., and William 

 and Mary, from 1653 to 1689, married Lady Anne Wentworth, 

 daughter of Thomas, first Earl of Strafford, by whom he had 

 four sons and four daughters. He died in 1689, and was 

 succeeded by his eldest son, Lewis Watson, third Baron and 

 first Earl of Rockingham, sixteenth and last jManorial or 

 Hereditary blaster of the Royal Buckhounds. He nominally 

 officiated in the first year of the reign of William and Mary, 

 and was paid oOZ. by the Sheriff" of the county Surrey for that 

 year only, as appears by his acquittance, dated July 10, 1691. 

 We can find no further payments recorded to him on the 

 Pipe Rolls of Surrey or Sussex again until the 2nd, 3rd, 

 and 4th years of the reign of Queen Anne, when he received 

 three several sums of 50/. out of the issues of the county 

 SuiTcy for each of those years, as exhibited by his acquittances 

 to the Sheriff's of that county, dated July 25, 1705, May 13, 

 1705, and May 13, 1707 ; the last being the final payment made 

 to any Hereditary Master of the Royal Buckhounds by right 

 of holding the Manor of Little Weldon, county Northampton, 



