EAEL OF CAKDIGAN, THIRTY-FIFTH MASTER. 237 



doing this shall be your Warrant. Given at Our Court at Kensing- 

 ton the Eight and Twentieth day of June 1712, in the Eleventh Year 

 of Our Reigue. 



By Her Ma'^^ Command, 



Darthmouth. 

 To Our Eight Trusty and Right 

 entirely beloved Cousin and 

 Councellor Charles Duke of 

 Shrewsbury Our Chamberlain of 

 Our Household.* 



As set forth in the Sign ^lanual above cited his allowance 

 as Master of the Buckhounds was increased from the sum 

 of 1,100/. a year to 2,341/. per annum; and he received this 

 remuneration in full until he resigned office, soon after the 

 accession of George I. 



The Earl of Cardigan seems to have been as great a favourite 

 with Queen Anne as the Earl of Leicester was with Queen 

 Elizabeth. In another respect there was a similarity between 

 these two Masters of the Buckhounds — viz., that of being the 

 youngest amongst those who filled the office. Lord Cardigan 

 was only in his twenty-fifth year when the official insignia of 

 the Royal pack was confided to his charge. During the two 

 years he officiated under Queen Anne everything was couleur 

 de rose ; but in his third and last year of office, under 

 George I., he encountered so many checks that they drove 

 him to resign. 



George, third Earl of Cardigan, eldest son of Lord Francis 

 Brudenell and Frances, daughter of James Saville (last). Earl of 

 Sussex, was born in the year 1687. His father pre-deceased 

 him during his minority. His father, and his uncle also, were 

 most improvident, and through their dissipation almost im- 

 poverished the second Earl, of whom the following curious story, 

 which is characteristic of the times, is told. During the 

 dreadful hurricane of February 7, 1G99, while Robert, second 

 Earl of Cardigan, was at prayers in his chamber in Cardigan 

 House, Portugal Row, Lincoln's Inn Fields, a large stack of 

 * Home Office Records, Warrant Book, No. 12, p. 223, 



