A MASTER-GUNNER OF ENGLAND. 
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While one gunner takes aim, another can load two 
pieces. Three horses will draw all, with ammunition for 
120 shot. 
(4.) Pieces to carry 3 lbs. shot, 2 of which, with 4 others of 
1 lb., can be mounted on one carriage, weighing altogether 
4 cwt. Four of these 3-pounders to be mounted on one 
carriage to weigh 5 cwt. with three men to manage either 
carriage. 
(5.) ec Sakers of 4 or 5 cwt. and demi-culverins of 6 cwt., like 
brass drakes and doing as much execution, lasting as 
long and able to be discharged as often; and each with 
four 1-pounders on the same carriage. . . . Their 
price not more than brass ordnance. 
(6.) tc An invention to put a ship in such defence that she cannot 
be taken by force, by assault, or boarding, so long as 
she has 30 men for her defence, unless his engines are 
dismounted and broken by cbance shot. 
(7.) “ An invention whereby a ship may be built with two whole 
decks, half and quarter decks of the dimensions of the 
Naseby frigate, especially in length; to carry, besides 
her lower tier of brass or iron, 100 of the aforesaid 3 
and 6-pounders, 100 men being sufficient to manage 
them. 
“ If those appointed to ply them on the upper deck are forced 
to quit them, the enemy cannot in half an hour cause 
one piece to bear on any part of the ship, whereby to 
force a surrender. In less than a quarter of that time 
the deck shall be cleared, though hundreds were upon 
it, without endangering the ship. Those of less burden 
to carry a proportionate number; those already built 
and fitted with ordnance may, with small charge, be made 
to carry half as many more.” 1 2 
This petition was read in Council, 3 but it had no further result. 
Cromwell passed away a few months later and his successor, that 
affable nonentity, Richard Cromwell, had no taste for the a engines of 
war.” The Restoration brought about a better state of things for 
Wemyss. He was restored to his post of Master-Gunner of England not¬ 
withstanding the protest of Thomas Taylor, Master-Gunner of the ship 
Sovereign, who applied for Wemyss* post, pointing out that the Colonel 
had borne arms for the Parliament. 3 Wemyss was also re-appointed 
General of Artillery in Scotland and, on 1 March, 1661, a new Act was 
passed in his favour by the Scottish Parliament, granting him the 
privilege of making, selling, and exporting to friendly countries, 
leather ordnance for three terms of nineteen years from the date of the 
1 8.P. Dow.—27 Maj, 1668. 
2 Ibid. 
3 J&ieZ.—’June,1660. 
