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July 6th. On occasion of the death of the late Master-General the Duke 
of Montagu, the King sign'd a comission constituting and apointing 
General Sir John Legonier then lieut.-general of the ordnance to be colonel 
en second of the Koyal Kegiment of Artillery and captain of the company 
of Gentlemen Cadets. 
1750 The regimentals of the non-commissioned officers and men 
underwent an alteration. The serjeants coats were laced round the 
button holes with gold looping; the corporals, bombardiers, and rank and file 
had yellow worsted looping in the same manner. The corporals and 
bombardiers had gold and worsted shoulder knots, the surtouts were laid 
aside and complete suits of clothing were deliver'd yearly. 
1751 In March this year, Lieut.-General Borgard died, who was the 
first colonel of the regiment of artillery in Britain; he form'd and 
founded the corps as well as the science of artillery in the British dominions, 
he was succeeded by Colonel Belford. 
The 30th of April this year, the King was pleased to issue a declaration 
and order under his sign manual, ascertaining the rank of the officers of His 
Koyal Kegiment of Artillery, to be the same as that of the other officers of 
his army of the same rank, notwithstanding their commissions having been 
hitherto sign'd by the Master-General, the lieut.-general or principal officers 
of the ordnance, which had been the practice hitherto—and from this period all 
commissions of officers in His Koyal Kegiment of Artillery, have been sign'd 
by his Majesty and countersign'd by the Master-General of the Ordnance. 
Hitherto all non-commissioned officers, privates and even drummers had 
warrants, sign'd by the Master-General and countersign'd by his secretary, 
appointing such a one, a serjeant, bombardier, gunner, mattross or 
drummer in the Koyal Kegiment of Artillery; for which a serjeant paid * a 
mattross or drummer and the other stations in proportion; a custom 
that with great propriety was now abolish'd, as no one purpose appears to 
have been answer'd by it. 
[February. The majority of the officers of the regiment enter'd into an 
agreement for the establishing a fund for the benefit of the widows of the 
corps, no sort of provision having been hitherto made for the widows of the 
officers in the Koyal Kegiment of Artillery. 
1753 *Pn the death of Colonel Thomas Pattison, who had retired from 
the regiment as noticed in 1748 on his lieuts.-colonel pay; the lieut. 
fireworkers presented a memorial to the King supported by the Duke of 
Cumberland and Sir John Legonier then lieut.-general of the ordnance, 
requesting that his pay might be applied to the making up theirs equal to 
that of an ensign at three shillings and eightpence per day; this was granted, 
and took place in March this year, their subsistence being now two shillings 
and ninepence per diem, and elevenpence per diem arrears, instead of two 
shillings and threepence per day, and ninepence arrears which they had 
hitherto. 
June 13th. The King review'd in the Green Park five companies of the 
regiment then at Woolwich and the cadet company—the detail of their 
* Not stated in MSS. 
