EAEL OF CARDIGAN, THIRTY-FIFTH MASTER. 221 



Direct Authorize and Comand that out of such money as shall be 

 from time to time Imprested to j'ou for the service of Your Office 

 You pay or cause to be paid to the said George Earl of Cardigan or 

 his Assignes the s'^ Yearly sum of Two Thousand Three Hundred 

 forty-one pounds by Quarterly paym'^ from the said 28th day of June 



1712 During our pleasure as well for his Own Salary as for all other 

 Charges & Expences whatsoever any ways relating to the s'^ office 

 of Master of Our Buckhounds And this shall be as well to you for 

 Making the said paym*^ as to the Aud""" of Our Imprests for allow- 

 ing thereof from time to time Upon yo'' Accounts a Sufficient 

 Warrant given at Our Court at St. James's the 13th day of May 



1713 In the Twelfth year of Our Reign. 



By Her Ma""' Comand, 



Oxford. 

 To the Treasurer of Our 

 Chamber for the time 

 being. 



Ent" with both Aud"-^ IGtl^June 1713.* 



The Earl of Cardigan received the remuneration of the office 

 on the higher scale during the remainder of Queen Anne's reign, 

 and in like proportion down to July 11, 1715, when he resigned 

 in the first regnal year of the reign of George I. Some of the 

 latter payments were considerably in arrears, as appears by 

 the annexed summary of the Accounts of the Treasurer of the 

 Chamber of the Household : — 



To the Right Hon""^ S^ William Wyndham Bart, at M'C" ^ ann 

 from y** vij*'' June 1711 to y** xxv*'' of June 1712 in pursuance of her 

 late Ma*'^ Establishment commencing at Midsu'' 1709— M'Clvij" ix'^ vj'^ 

 ob. 



To the Right Hono^'" the Earl of Cardigan succeeding the said 

 S^ Wltm Wyndham at M'M'CCCxlj'^ ^ ann. from the xxviij*'^ of 

 June 1712 to the xxv*** of December following in pursuance of her 

 late Ma*' Warr* dated the xiij*'^ of May 1713— M^Clij" viij^ 



Total M'M'CCCix" xvij' vj'^ ob. 



To the Right Hon. Charles Earl of Cardigan, for his salary and in 

 lieu of all other charges whatsoever relating to the said Office at 



* Lord Chamberlain's Records, Sign Manual £ook, vol. f|f , fo. 75, dorso. 



