519 
EOYAL TEOPHY GTJJNS AT WINDSOE. 
(report by majoe e. h. Murdoch, assistant superintendent e.a. records.) 
COMMUNICATED BY ORDER OP 
THE DEPUTY-ADJUTANT-GENERAL, R.A. 
Amongst the trophy guns at Windsor Castle are several 4-prs. and 6-prs., 
of which nothing was known, locally, beyond the tradition of some 
of these having been connected with the army that fought at Culloden 
in 1746—a great part of the forces having been encamped on Thistle 
Lawn, near Virginia Water, on return of the army from Scotland under 
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. 
The Deputy-Adjutant-General, R.A. therefore gave directions to have 
the Royal Artillery records searched; and the following particulars 
were collected by Major Murdoch. 
“ The guns at Windsor particularly described are— 
a 
§ 
if 
Description. 
By whom 
cast. 
Dates of castings. 
o 
31 
3i 
4-prs. 
C Brass or Bronze (heavy) 
f 12 cwt. 
Schalch 
Bowen 
C 1720, 1729, 1730, 1731, 1734, 1736, 1738, 
i 1742, 1743, 1745, 1747, 1749, 1773. 
10 
3f 
6-prs. ( 
Ibid, (light) 6 cwt.^ 
King 
Kinman 
11794, 1795, 1796, 1799, 1801. 
All these guns are of bronze—formerly termed brass; 1 all are of 
English manufacture—Schalch, Bowen, King, and Kinman having 
been the Royal and licensed gunfounders of the periods. 
JST.B.—The subjoined, foot notes ivere not in the official report: 
“ Eoyal Brass Foundry, 
8th January, 1824. 
Sir, —I beg leave to report that the proportion of tin to copper in brass ordnance formerly 
cast at this foundry was 10 lbs. of tin to 112 lbs. of copper; but about the year 1794 it was found 
necessary, to prevent the ordnance from bulging or dinting on proof, to make the metal a trifle 
harder by increasing the tin to 11 lbs. The quantity of tin was further augmented by the late 
founders, in 1805 and 1806, to 12^ lbs., which proportion is still used, as near as possible, in cast¬ 
ing the new pattern howitzers.—I am, &c. 
(Signed) William North, Foreman.” 
The Inspector, 
Eoyal Brass Foundry. 
(Thus, there was not any brass in the so-called “Brass Ordnance.” “Bronze” is a term of 
very recent application to such ordnance). 
10. vol. xx. 
i Composi- 
tion of 
‘brass” i.e. t 
“bronze” 
ordnance. 
