360 HISTORY OF THE EOYAL BUCKHOUNDS AND ASCOT EACES. 



On Saturday, the 14th, the 50^. Give-and-Take Plate, 14 

 hands, weight 9st. 71b., allowing 71bs. for every year under 7? 

 resulted as follows : — 



IstHt. 2ndHt. 3rdnt. 



Mr. White's brown horse Gamester, aged .41 1 



Hon. Mr. Howe's bay horse Spotless, 5 years 

 old 



Sh- E. Grosvenor's bay horse Dragon, aged 



Mr. Watt's Chestnut horse Crispin, aged . 



Mr. Fisher's bay mare .... 



It appears the Duke of Cumberland, the Duke and Duchess 

 of Ancaster, and a large assemblage of the nobility and gentry 

 attended this meeting. 



Now we must hark back here and say "a few words " about 

 the four Masters of the Royal Buckhounds, who flourished and 

 filled this office successively, after Colonel Negus, during the 

 reign of George II. 



Charles Bennet, second Earl of Tankerville, was sworn 

 into the office of Master of the Boyal Buckhounds on 

 June 21, 1733. His stipend was 2,341^. per annum, out 

 of which he had to defray all the ordinary expenses of the 

 pack. He bore the official insignia of the pack for only a 

 brief term, his Lordship having resigned it in June 1736. 

 During those three years the Prime Minister, Sir Robert 

 Walpole, invariably acted as Field Master, and, of course, 

 when he was in the saddle the actual master was more or less 

 left in the shade. Charles, second Earl of Tankerville, thirty- 

 seventh Master of the Royal Buckhounds, from June 21, 1733, 

 to June 1736, the eldest son of Charles, first Earl of Tankerville, 

 by his wife, Lady Mary Grey, only daughter of Ford, Viscount 

 Grey of Glendale, succeeded to the family honours and estates 

 on the death of his father. May 21, 1722. He was born in 

 1696, educated at Eton, was a colonel in the army, a Lord of the 

 Bedchamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales, from 1729 to 1733, 

 and was appointed to a similar office in the Household of 

 George II. in 1737. He was made Lord-Lieutenant of the 



