(35i ) 
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN “KANE’S LIST” 
AND 
CAPTAIN R. J. MACDONALD’S 
“ HISTORY OF THE DRESS OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY.” 
BY 
MAJOR A. J. ABDY, R.A. 
_ ■ At of; 
[The writer requested that his name might be withheld in publication, but the Committee feel sure that 
members would -wish it to be associated with this interesting andjvaluable paper, especia’ly when it is 
remembered ihat Major Abdy has worked so hard and so successfully for the Institution of late years.— 
Secretary R.A. T.] 
TVT OW that the “ History of the Dress of the Royal Artillery ” is 
published the following paper may prove of interest as showing 
the men who may have worn the various dresses therein depicted. 
The numbers in brackets after a name are those of the officer in 
“Kane’s List.” 
The first two or three plates treat of a period anterior to the date 
when Kane commences. We may regard the dress of Plate I as that 
in which a party paraded in Hyde Park on 23 rd May, 1676 in ac¬ 
cordance with an order from the Duke of Monmouth directing Sir 
Thomas Chichelay, The Master General of His Majesty’s Ordnance 
‘ to cause eight field pieces . . . attended with a competent num- 
‘ ber of gunners, fifty pioneers, with their respective officers in their 
‘ best equipage to attend the exercise of the said forces . . . ’. 
The campaigns which occurred in the long period covered by Plate I. 
include those of Tangier, of the Spanish Netherlands, of Monmouth’s 
rebellion, of 1689-91 in Ireland, of Holland and Flanders; for ser¬ 
vice in each of these campaigns trains of artllery were formed ; and 
the more noted Artillerymen serving in these trains were Sir William 
Compton, Master General of the Ordnance, Colonel William Legg, 
Lieutenant of the Ordnance, Colonel James Weymes (Wemyss), 
Master-Gunner of England in 1660 and George Legg, the son of 
William, who in reward for political and naval services was made as¬ 
sistant in the Board of Ordnance in 1682 and raised to the peerage 
as Lord Dartmouth the same year. 
8. VOL XXVI. 
■ 4 ‘ 
