EALPH JENISON, ESQ., FOKTIETH MASTEK. 365 



to him in consideration of the Extraordinaiy Charge he was at in 

 furnishing himself with Horses and other necessaiy Equipage as 

 Master of Our Buckhounds in and for the Year 1747. And for 

 so doing this shall be Your Warrant. Given at our Court at 

 St. James's the 28"" day of October 1747 in the 2P* year of Our 

 Reign 



By His Majesty's Command 



H. Pelpham. 



G. Lyttelton. 



J. Campbell. 

 To the Comm^^ of 

 Our Treasviry, 

 War* signed thereupon 

 29*^ Ocf 1747. Do. Lords. 



— Treasury Records, K. W. B., vol. xxxvii., pp. 151-537. 



At any rate, we know for a positive fact that during this, 

 his second term of office, Mr. Jenison received his stipend 

 yearly from 1746 down to the quarter of a year ended 

 January 5, 1757, at the rate of 2,.341L per annum. He retired 

 from this office, which he had filled altogether for seventeen 

 years, on February 5, 1757, and on relinquishing the golden 

 couples was accorded a pension of 2,000^. a year, which is the 

 only instance (so far as we are aware) of a pension .having 

 been granted to any Master of the Buckhounds under similar 

 circumstances. It does not appear, however, that this re- 

 tiring allowance, or any part of it, had ever been received by 

 him, his heirs, or executors. 



Mr. Jenison was a prominent patron of the turf, and one of 

 the original members of the Jockey Club. He owned and 

 bred some fairly fine horses, amongst which his bony black 

 mare Faustina (foaled in 1725), by Hartley's blind horse out 

 of Blossom — Pulleine's chestnut Arabian — old Vintner mare, 

 won (in those days of little prizes and large sport) a Plate 

 of 40 guineas at Barnard Castle in September 1729, carrying 

 9 stone, 3 miles ; at Morpeth, September 1730, a Plate of 20^., 

 carrying 10 stone, in two heats, beating four others, 4 miles ; 

 at Preston, July 1732, a Purse of 40 guineas, 10 stone, 4 



