228 HISTORY OF THE ROYAL BUCKHOUNDS AND ASCOT RACES. 



Catherina, daughter of Sir Hatton Freeman, Knight, was born 

 in 1659. He became the tirst Master of the Household and 

 Hereditary packs of the Royal Buckhounds, which were united 

 during his tenure of office under one Master and staff; hence 

 we place him here as the thirty-second Master, in succession of 

 the two branches, from the time of Sir Bernard Brocas. Sir 

 Charles was High Sheriff for Warwickshire in 1687, and elected 

 M.P. for that county in the Parliaments of 1698-1700, 1701, 

 1701-2, 1702 to April 1705, and from May 16, 1705, to the day 

 of his death, September 2nd in this year. He married, first, 

 Catherine, daughter of Sir Hugh Stukeley, Bart., of Hinton, by 

 whom he had issue, John his successor, and two daughters ; and 

 secondly, Diana, daughter of Richard, third Lord Willoughby 

 de Broke, by whom he had three sons and five daughters. 

 Under the circumstances already related we are unable to give 

 any reliable information concerning his administration as 

 Master of the Buckhounds, an appointment he seems to have 

 held from June 6, 1703,* to September 2, 1705, However, 

 we may venture to say he did full justice to the ofiice ; and 

 judging from the following incident it would appear he was in 

 constant attendance on the Court during the hunting season. 

 On the morning of August 28, 1705, the Queen, accompanied 

 by the Prince Consort and the royal entourage, set out from 

 Windsor to pay her first regnal visit to the ancient city of 

 Winchester. Her suite comprised many of the high officers of 

 State, including the Master of the Buckhounds. On the borders 

 of the county the Royal party were met by the High Sheriff 

 of Hampshire with ninety javelin men in armour, and others 

 of his retinue in liveries, by whom the royal visitors were 

 conducted to the Downs, where the Duke of Bolton, Lord- 



* " Windsor, Juue 6, 8ir Charles Shuckburgh and Sir S. Payton kis'd the 

 Queen's Hand, being made Masters of the Stag and Buck Hounds." ^The Post 

 Man, London, Jime |, 1703. As will be here seen, the chronicler is rather 

 obscure. There is no doubt, however, that Sir Charles was the Master of the 

 Buckhounds and Sir Swester Peyton the Master of the Staghounds. The latter 

 died in 1717. Luttrell says : " Sir Charles Shuckburgh, M.P. for Warwickshire, 

 and Master of the Bnclthnind.^ to the Queen, is dead of an apoplexy at Win- 

 chester " (Diary c Sept. 4, 1705). 



