THE QUEEN'S HOUNDS 



STAG-HUNTING EECOLLECTIONS 



INTKODUCTION 



^r EDWAED BUREOWS 

 Yixere fortes ante Agamemnonii 



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

 Eton ' wet-bob,' 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 Brocas 

 of Beaiirepaire and Roche Court, by Montagu Burrows, Captain R.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 jDOSsession. 



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