12 STAG-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 



8. Sir Bernard Brocas (1363), oh. 1395, jure Mary de Borhunte. 



9. Sir Bernard Brocas, second of the name, executed 1400. 



10. William Brocas (1), oh. 1456. 



11. William Brocas (2), oh. 1484. 



12. John Brocas, oh. 1492. 



13. WiUiam Brocas (3), ob. 1506. 



14. John Brocas, 1508^1512.1 



15. George Warham and Ealph Pexall, joint Masters 1512- 



1514, jure Ann and Edith Brocas. 



16. Ealph Pexall (1514), oh. c. 1540, jure Edith Brocas. 



17. Sir Eichard Pexall, oh. 1571, son of Edith Brocas. 



18. Sir John Savage (till 1584), second husband of Lady 



Pexall, widow of Sir Eichard. 



19. Sir Pexall Brocas, oh. 1630. 



20. Thomas Brocas, who in 1633 sold Hunter's Manor and the 



office to Sir Lewis Watson, afterwards LordEockingham. 



From the list of hereditary Masters given above it v^^ill 

 be observed that one of the earliest notices of any regular 

 establishment for the Buckhounds is the grant of certain 

 lands in Little Weldon, a manor in Northamptonshire, near 

 Kockingham, to Hamon le Venour, in 1216. It is certain, 

 however, that the Lovels had held these lands at an earlier 

 date, for certain territories and the lordship of the Manor of 

 Little Weldon v^ere granted by Henry II. to his Chamberlain, 

 Osborne Lovel, from whom they descended to John Lovel, 

 w^ho died in 1316. AVhatever were the original relations of 

 ' Hunter's Manor in Little Weldon ' to the royal manor of 

 that name of which it formed a part, it assumed under the 

 Edwards a position so entirely independent of the larger 

 manor that it is styled in the Brocas deeds and ofhcial docu- 

 ments the ' Manor of Little Weldon,' with ' Hunter's Manor ' 

 sometimes prefixed as an alias. To this ' Hunter's Manor ' 

 was attached in Grand Serjeanty for many centuries the 

 Mastership of the Eoyal Buckhounds. For the ingenious at- 



' The tenure of this Master, omitted in the list given in The Family of Brocas, 

 has been correctly noted in the History of the Royal Buckhounds. 



