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removed on the death of Prince George, the Queen's Consort, 

 in the autumn of 1708, and during the following year 

 the reconstructed pack resumed hunting under the most 

 favourable auspices. 



The Accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber of the 

 Household contain no payments relating to the Royal Buck- 

 hounds from the accession of Queen Anne (March 8, 1702) 

 until the quarter of the year ended at Michaelmas 1709. 

 This lapse was probably caused through the department of 

 the Royal Hunt having been transferred to the establishment 

 of George, Prince of Denmark, the Queen's husband, in 1702, 

 to which establishment it appertained till the death of his 

 Royal Highness. Unfortunately we have been unable to 

 find the Establishment Books of the Prince of Denmark, 

 consequently we are unable to give any official information 

 of the Buckhounds, the Masters, the hunt-servant, or the 

 cost of the pack during this period. But from other sources 

 we learn that in June 1703 Sir Charles Shuckburgh and 

 Sir Sewester Peyton were "made Masters of the Stag and 

 Buckhounds to the Queen." We presume the two Masters 

 above mentioned held the office directly from and under 

 Prince George, as Walter Chetwynd, Esq., is the first Master 

 of Buckhounds officially recorded in the reign of Queen Anne. 

 According to Luttrell, Walter Chetwynd, Esq., M.P. for 

 Stafford, was, on about October 4, 1705, " made Master 

 of the Buckhounds, in room of Sir Charles Shuckburgh, 

 deceased." We can find no official data relating to any of 

 these gentlemen as having been appointed to or filling this 

 office before June 13, 1709, when Mr. Chetwynd was 

 nominated to the office and sworn on to it on the 24th of 

 that month by the Lord Chamberlain. His salary was at 

 the rate of 1,100/. a year, which he received in full down 

 to June 7, 1711, when he resigned. He was succeeded 

 by Sir William Wyndham, who was sworn into the post 

 on June 8, 1711.* Sir William officiated for little over a 

 year, as he was succeeded in the Mastership by the Earl of 



* Lord Chamberlain's Records, Warrants for Sercaiits, p. 269. 



