THE QUEEN'S HOUNDS 



STAG-HUNTING EECOLLECTIONS 



INTKODUCTION 



BY EBWABD BUBBOWS 

 Yixere fortes ante Agamemnona 



Few of those who share with the writer the memories of an 



Eton ' wet-hob,' to whom ' The Brocas,' ' ' Brocas Chimp,' 



' Brocas Meadow,' and ' Brocas Lane ' are ' famihar in their 



mouths as household words,' know the origin of the strange 



un-Enghsh name which thus hngers on the Eton bank of 



the Thames just above Windsor Bridge, but has died out on 



the opposite side where lay the manor, styled, at least until 



the beginning of the sixteenth century, 'Brocas in Clewer,' 



or ' Clewer-Brocas,' and where the position of the Brocas 



Chantry, founded by that notable knight Sir Bernard Brocas, 



may still be traced in Clewer Church. 



Few of those who ride with her Majesty's Buckhounds are 



aware that the hereditary Mastership was held by the family 



' Materials for this Introduction are taken from The Family of Brocaa 

 of Beaiirepaire and Roche Court, by Montagu Burrows, Captain E.N., M.A,,, 

 F.S.A., Chichele Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford 

 a work founded on the collection of original Brocas documents now in the 

 writer's possession. 



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