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395 



obscurity. It must be exhumed, and before its translation to a 

 worthy sepulchre we shall see what we shall see. 



As to the Treasury Records relating to the affairs of the Royal 

 Buckhounds from the reign of George III. onward to the present 

 time, the Lords Commissioners of that department graciously per- 

 mitted the Compiler to consult their archives down to the year 

 1793, but in reply to his application, dated April 2, 1887, their 

 Lordships were not prepared to extend the permission which they 

 had already granted to him. In so doing that department was 

 quite within their rights, but at the same time there is certain 

 information preserved in those papers which cannot be obtained 

 from any other source. Take, for instance, the svibjects which 

 transpire in the subjoined note,* and then draw an inference of 



Dan' Pai-ker Esq'' rasps' CS", 



a letter from Lord) "Opon reading to fhe Lords C'omm" of His Maj'ty's 

 Hichingbrook Master of j Try., a letter from Lord Hichiugbroke Master of the 

 the Buck Hounds. j^Buck Hounds stating that he is of opinion that it may 



be proper to make an Addition of £25 W Aiiii. to the salary of Will'" Kennedy 

 the Master Huntsman, and that the additional allowance of £25 ^ Anii., which 

 their Lordships have directed to be made to each of the Six Yeomen Prickers of his- 

 Majesty's Hunt, should be paid into the Hands of the Master of the Buck Hounds 

 to be by him paid to such Yeomen Prickers who are in possession of two horses 

 lit to do the duty ; I am commanded by their Lordships to desire that you will 

 move the Duke of Montagu to insert on the Establishment of tlie Master of the 

 Horse the sum of £25 W Aiiii. to the Master Huntsman to commence from the 

 S'** Ap' 1783. And I am further commanded to desire that you will move His 

 Grace to insert on the said Establishment the Sum of £150 ^ Aiin. to the 

 Master of the Buck Hounds (in addition to his former Allowances), to commence 

 from the said 5"' Ap' 1783, to be by him applied for the purposes aforesaid, in 

 lieu of the additional allowance of £25 W Aiiii. directed to be made to the Six 

 Yeomen Prickers from the lO"' Oct' 1783, by Mr, Sheridan's letter of the 

 .3"! December last. 



I am, &c., 12"' May 1784, 



George Kose. 



— Vide Treasury Records : Letter Book, ?^" 1784, vol. xxx., p. 205. 



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