278 HISTORY OF THE EOYAL BUCKHOUNDS AND ASCOT EACES. 



June 1727 and the 14th day of October now last past 1730, which 

 Acco* is hereupon Indorsed ; And there by it appears that there is 

 due and payable unto the said Under Keep''^ whose names are speci- 

 fied in the said Acco* the Sum of 286", as followeth : — For 131 

 Staggs at 40^ each, 262^. ; 22 Hinds at 20^ each, 22Z. ; and 4 Bucks 

 at 10^ each, %. Total, 286^. 



Our W[ill] & Pt[easure] is and We do hereby Authorize Direct 

 and Requii-e you, out of any Monies coming to your hands for the 

 Extra'^y Expense of Our Stables, to pay, unto the s'' Under Keep"" 

 the said Sum of 286?. in full of the s** Fees, and of all Claims and 

 Demands what so ever on Account thereof, from Our Accession to 

 the Throne to the s*^ 14th day of Octob"" last past. And Our further 

 WUl and Pleasure is that, out of the like Mo[neys] from time to 

 time being and remaining in your hands; you pay unto the Under 

 Keep''^ of the Walks within Our Forests yearly and every year, or 

 at the end of every hunting Season in each year, so much as the 

 same Fees of 40'*'' for each Stagg — 20**^ for each Hind — and 10^'' for 

 each Buck shall amount unto for each Species happening to be Killed 

 by our Stagg-Hounds m every such year or Hunting Season upon 

 Certificates of the Numbers Killed, and the Names of the Under 

 Keep''^, with their Walks, to whom the same are or shall become 

 payable, to be Signed from time to time by the Ma'' of Our Buck 

 Hounds for the time being or otherwise attested to your Satisfaction. 

 And for so doing this with proper Acquittances for the Sums which 

 shall now and from time to time be paid, pursuant to Our pleasure 

 afore declared, shall be as well to you for paym' as to Ovir Aud"^** for 

 Allow^ thereof from time to time upon your Acco*^, a sufficient 

 Warr*. Given at Our Court at St, James's this 14th day of March 

 1730 [-31] in the 4th year of Our Reign. 



By his Majesty's Command 



B. Walpole. 



G. DODINGTON. 

 G. OXENDEN. 



[Lords Commissioners of the Treasury^ 



To the Earl of Scarborough, 

 Ma'' of the Horse. 



Appending : — " An Account of the Staggs, Hinds, and Bucks 



