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at court. Saturday another hunting. This day sen'night his high- 

 ness goes to Newmarket, and comes back to town for the birthday ; 

 aftei- which the duke of Grafton will entertain him, as is said, for 

 some days at Euston, and sir Robert Walpole at Houghton." 



It seems that the hunters used by the Duke of Lorraine were 

 provided by the Master of the Horse at the King's expense.* 



According to the official certificate of Colonel Negus 57 stags, 

 20 hinds, and 7 bucks, were provided to give sport with the 

 pack, between October 14 and November 5, 1731, for which 

 the several underkeepers received the usual fees, amounting 

 to 138^. 10s. 



During this year George 11. completed the purchase, and 

 thereby acquired, by payment of 2,688^. 16s., to the trustees 

 of the late Richard Earl of Ranelagh, Cranborne Lodge in 

 Windsor Forest, " together with all fees and profits thereunto 

 belonging, and the pictures, furniture, and household stuff in 

 the said Lodge or in any outhouses or offices belonging thereto." 

 His Majesty, about the same time, also bought for 3,161^. 18s. 6d., 

 forty-five acres of woodland adjoining Richmond Park, from 

 the executors of Nathaniel Halhed, deceased. Both of these 

 places were associated before, at, and in after times with the 

 Royal Hunt. 



1732. — For some time prior to the beginning of the Buck- 

 hunting season the King was away in Hanover, and on 

 July 10 it was publicly announced that the Queen Regent 

 and the Royal Family designed to hunt twice a week during 

 the ensuing season. On July 20 several of the Royal grooms 

 arrived at the New Park, Richmond, with the hunters, etc. ; 

 and on the following day Colonel Negus arrived there from 



* Jasper Smith stud-groom, for his own and several other grooms, horse-hire 

 and travelling charges in attending upon the Duke of Lorraine on hmiting into 

 Norfolk, and in fetching up from Falmouth to Hampton Court two Barbary 

 horses which came from Tripoli, 511. 12s. . . . Richard Powell for travelling 

 charges and expenses of himself, two grooms and two helpers in conducting 

 seven horses of the Duke of Lorraine to Calais, and for their expenses back 

 5il. lis. 6d.— Vide Accounts of Eichard Earl of Scarborough, Master of the 

 Horse, July 1731 to June 30, 1732 (Roll 39). For 4 saddle horses bought 

 in the year 1731, for a present to the Duke of Lorraine, 181 Z. 5s. (Roll 40). 



