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ARTILLERY IN MANUSCRIPT. 
The book in question evidently first belonged to (No. 205) Lieut. 
Fireworker Samuel Glegg, who became a Cadet on 1st April, 1755 
(according to Kane). His name appears, without any date, in the top 
corner of the fly-leaf at the end of the book, which has been used for 
the purpose of entering in the Regimental List, etc., of which I here 
give copies. This officer was commissioned as Lieut.-Fireworker on 
24th April, 1755 and thus was only three weeks a Cadet, and on 12th 
May, 1756 was made a Second Lieutenant. As he made these lists 
whilst in the rank of Lieut.-Fireworker, they must therefore have been 
written before May, 1756, and after April, 1755, so that I do not think 
we can be far wrong in assigning 1755, as the date of the lists. 
In the list headed “List of Artillery officers in 1753-54,” I notice 
that the date was originally put down as 1755, and was subsequently 
altered by someone to 1753-54. As Glegg's name appears as the 
junior officer in this list amongst the Lieut. Fireworkers, it is evident 
that the list could not have been made earlier than 1755, and that this 
date, originally inserted, was the correct one—always assuming that 
the notes were written by him. Glegg died iu 1760, and the book 
presumably then passed into the hands of a brother officer, as we find 
on the fly-leaf at the beginning of the book the name (in more recent 
writing) “Captain-Lieutenant Thomas Jones, Belle-Isle, 1760-1;” 
this officer was a contemporary of Glegg as a Cadet (his number in 
Kane is 225). He was a Cadet of 8th March, 1755, and appears to 
have been passed over by Glegg, as he did not get his commission 
until 27th December, 1755; he became Capt.-Lieutenant on 23rd 
October, 1761, a year after the date of Glegg's death. Unfortunately 
Kane does not tell us where Glegg died. 
Capt.-Lieutenant Thomas Jones was apparently stationed in Belle- 
Isle about 1760-1 ; he evidently served in various parts of the con¬ 
tinent of America, and was in or about Quebec in 1760 and 1776, for 
we have in the book in Jones' handwritiug some notes on “ Fire Ball 
Composition made at Quebec 1760-A.W. and 1776 by Captain Jones.” 
Jones was killed in 1777 at the disastrous affair of Saratoga. His 
name does not figure in any of these lists which is in itself a proof that 
they were written before the end of 1755 when Jones was commissioned. 
If Glegg was abroad when he wrote the lists, as I think very probable, 
he would not be likely to have the names of those commissioned after 
him for some considerable time, as information did not permeate as 
rapidly in those days as now. 
As regards the professional contents of this book there is nothing 
especially noteworthy about them, the usual data are given as to 
dimensions of all kinds of Ordnance and their properties, also every 
detail as to ammunition and the way it was made up and prepared; 
gunpowder and incendiary compositions, proportions of stores for 
bomb vessels, gunnery problems, details of carriages, practice tables 
with guns, howitzers and rockets, stores for fire-ships, etc., etc. 
