6 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. 



of Zutphen, where Sir Philip Sidney was killed, and he 

 himself died at Flushing soon after, a handsome monument 

 being erected in Broeklesby Church to his memory. 



Sir William's eldest son William was educated at New 

 College, Oxford, and at the universities of Strasburg, 

 Heidelberg, Wittenberg, Leipsic, and Paris ; he became 

 M.P. in 1597, and was knighted by James I. He was an 

 accomplished scholar, and spoke French, German, Latin, 

 and Greek fluently; and he saw considerable service abroad, 

 and was several times wounded, before settling down at 

 Broeklesby, where he was very popular, as witness an entry 

 in the Grimsby Corporation Book of 1618, the Town 

 Council sending him a rundlet of sack, " in token of the 

 respect and affection which they bear to his person and 

 character." 



He married Anne, daughter of Lord Willoughby of 

 Parham, and was the father of twenty children, of which 

 ten survived him. His son, the third Sir William of 

 Broeklesby, matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 

 1607, and entered Lincoln's Inn two years later. He was 

 knighted by the king at Newmarket, and married Frances, 

 daughter of Lord Conway, of Conway Castle. During his 

 earher years he served abroad under his father, and he 

 afterwards held several ofHces under the Crown. In 1623 

 there was great distress in Lincolnshire, and in a letter to 

 his brother-in-law, Sir Edward Conway, he says, " There 

 are many thousands in these parts who have sold all they 

 have, even to their bed-straw, and cannot get work to earn 

 any money. Dog's flesh is a dainty dish, and found upon 

 search in many houses, also such horse-flesh as hath lain 

 long in a dyke for hounds ; and the other day one stole a 

 sheep, who for mere hunger tore a leg out and did eat it 

 raw." The reference to " doar's flesh " and the horse-flesh 

 for " hounds " pretty clearly indicates that there were 

 hounds kept for the purpose of hunting in 1623. 



When the Civil War broke out, Sir William Pelham 

 raised a regiment of cavalry and one of infantry in the 

 county, and Broeklesby, in common with the homes of 



