LOED BATEMAN, FOKTY-FIRST MASTER. 371 



a year, for one year ended October 10, 1758, 2,341^." . His 

 Lordship received the annual stipend of this post down to the 

 year 1782 (when the office of the Treasurer of the Chamber 

 was abolished by Act of Parliament), when what appears to be 

 the last payment, in that series of official documents, runs as 

 follows : " To William (sic) Lord Viscount Bateman and the 

 Earl of Jersey successively Master of the Buck Hounds at 

 2,341L per annum for three-quarters of a year ended July 5, 

 1782, 1,755^. 15.S." 



In plodding through these accounts, we find, down to 

 the end of the reign of George XL (17G0), that the then 

 Master is designated therein as " John, Lord Bateman " ; but 

 in the Account for the first year of the reign of George III. 

 (1761) he is designated "William Viscount Bateman." From 

 this year onward to 1782 — when this series of documents 

 terminated by the abolition of the Department — the Master is 

 styled William Viscount Bateman ; but whether he altered his 

 Christian name from John to William, or whether the scribe 

 altered it for him, we are not allowed to ascertain. If you 

 please, gentle reader, the official dog-in-the-manger objects to 

 having this momentous State Secret divulged, as to whether 

 the Christian name of the forty-first Master of the Hoyal 

 Buckhounds, at this time, was John or William. Faugh ! 



