POSTSCEIPT 



A SERIES of articles, condensed from the subject matter in this 

 work, entitled " The Royal Buckhounds and their Masters," was 

 contributed to and published in Bailys Monthly Magazine of Sports 

 and Pastimes, from July 1886 to June 1887. Want of space 

 necessarily excluded all the interesting details relating to the 

 personnel and to the maintenance of the Pack which now appear in 

 this volume, from the time when the Royal Buckhounds were insti- 

 tuted in the i-eign of Edward III. to soon after the accession of 

 George III. Within that period of four hundred years all the official 

 records relating to the subject are open to the pubHc for consultation 

 without reserve. But from the reign of George III. onwards to the 

 present time the official records cannot be consulted without per- 

 mission of the departments to which the sevei-al sets of documents 

 respectively appertain. 



In order to continue the subject on the same lines as had hitherto 

 been followed, and to carry it on from the reign of George III. down 

 to date, it became necessary at this chronological epoch to apply 

 to the administrators of the different departments for permission to 

 consult their archives, so far as they might contain informa- 

 tion relating to the work in hand. Accordingly, on February 28, 

 1887, the Compiler wi-ote to the Secretary of State for the Home 

 Department to inquu-e if he would accord him (the Compiler) 

 permission to consult the State papers of his department from 

 the year 1760 to (say) 1860, relating to the Royal Buckhounds, 

 which were deposited in the Public Record Office, for the purpose 

 of continuing and bringing this work to a conclusion. In this and 

 a subsequent letter (March 8, 1887), the Compiler referred to the 

 circumstance that when the office of the Treasurer of the Chamber 

 had been abolished, on July 5, 1782, pursuant to the Act of the 

 22 George III. c. 82, the duties which had been administered by 



