30 
THE BROME-WALTON FAMILY. 
would fittingly form a bureau of the United Service Institution. The 
only approved stone wherewith to build the fane of regimental history 
is the muster-roll (and pay list); and with the utmost deference it is 
submitted that the destruction or abolition of a muster-roll or pay list 
inflicts an injury upon posterity. 
The ships of war of Henry VII., Henry VIII., and Elizabeth were 
of considerable size, manned with average of 700 men, viz. : marriners 
450, under the master or captain; gonners 50 (R.A.), and souldiers 
(infantry) 200, commanded by an officer of the Royal Artillery. 1 The 
marriners were armed with snaphaunce dagger-musquett, cutlass or 
short sword, and pole-axe; the souldiers were to “ attend upon ” the 
gonners, on board-—just as “men of the army ” were “appointed to 
^attend the Ordnance/'’ on land. 2 The dual command was unhappy, 
and w'as necessarily modified, from time to time, by the force of in¬ 
dividuality; but continued, for the Bomb-ships especially, until 1804, 
as exemplified in the subjoined collation from R.A. muster-rolls 
LIST OF ROYAL ARTILLERY ON BOARD H.M. BOMB VESSELS IN 1803-4. 
B 
◄ 
Commander. 
Name of Ship. 
c 
1 
'S 
"" 
tx 
o 
P. 
| 
a 
s 
1 
W 
St 
O 
m 
s 
M 
1903. 
Royal Artillery. 
July 
Aug. 
Lieut. A. C. Macartney. 
„ T. A. Brandreth. 
Sulphur. 
Zebra. 
1 
2 
5th 
Nov. 
a Son. H. Gardner. 
Discovery. 
— 
_ 
l 
10 
6th 
Oet. 
Capt.-Lieut. H. Fraser. 
Explosion. 
1 
_ 
_ 
9 
2, 5, 6th 
Nov. 
Lieut. Duncan Grant. 
Vesuvius. 
— 
1 
_ 
9"v 
Sept. 
,i J. Briseow. 
Tartarus. 
_ 
l 
10 I 
3rd 
f 
Cotint ess Cardigan 
r 
July 
n J. Adams. 
(Tender to [■ 
— 
_ 
l 
9 ) 
Where not other¬ 
( 
Vesuvius). ) 
wise specified, these 
„ 
„ J. F. Fead. 
Fury. 
1 
— 
— 
10 
4, 6th 
ships were on active 
Dee. 
u S. Rudvard. 
Volcano 
1 
_ 
l 
8 
4th 
service with Nel¬ 
July 
h J. Taj lor. 
Secla. 
— 
_ 
l 
1} 
son’s Fleet. 
E. Smyth. 
Terror. 
1 
— 
l 
3, 4th 
1804. 
June 
„ T. F. Fead. £ 
Lucifer ") 
(Downs). $ 
- 
- 
l 
8 \ 
3rd 
Apr. 
i H.Bowyer Lane. | 
Thunder \ 
(Spithead). j 
- 
- 
l 
9) 
Jan. 
„ W. D, Holcomb e | 
Perseus 
(Downs). J 
- 
i 
9 
1st; 
July 
* A. Thompson. | 
Meteor \ 
(Spithead). ) 
- 
- 
l 
9 
2nd 
Oct. 
„ T. Mackonochie. £ 
Acheron 
(Rose’s Bay), j 
- 
1 
- 
9 ) 
1st 
Dec. 
■ 1 
Acheron \ 
(Malta). j 
“ 
1 
— 
9; 
The Brome-Wal- j 
1702 
( Capt. Albrecht Bor gar d) 
( Matron Charles Brome j 
Furnace. 
Royal Warrant Book 1715. 
ton’s on y e Bombs. 1 
1757 
Lieut. Joseph Walton, 
Ibid. 
R.A. Muster-Roll. 
1797 
„ Joseph Brome, 2nd 
Judith. 
Ibid. Col. Congreve’s Report 
JSf.B .—Though indifferently termed “Bombs” in R.A. Rolls, some of these were gun-boats. 
Also, several of these had been at Louisbourg, 1758. 
i “Military Antiquities” (Grose), Vol. I., p. 125. See Marble Tablet, in Royal Chapel, Tower 
of London (reproduced in Succession List quoted below). 
^“Succession List of Master-Gunners of England,” anno 1461. The pole-axe was in use by 
Royal Navy at Louisbourg (“ Annals of War,” 1758, p. 280). 
