THE MASTER-GUNNERS OP ENGLAND. 
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SUCCESSION LIST OF THE MASTER-GUNNERS OF ENGLAND. 
Reign. 
Date of 
Appt. 
Name. 
War Services, &c. 
1347. Siege of Calais. “The Master- 
Gunner who led the English at Calais ” (a 
Fleming) was subsequently (1386) found on 
board one of the French ships of war, which 
had also great quantities of gunpowder, guns, 
and engines. 
Ed. III. 
1327-1377 
( Contd.J 
John Parv 
or Parry. 
1 
At Siege of Calais. 
Staff of the Master-Gunner of England. 
Gunners. vj at 6d 
Artillers. vj per 
Ingyners ...lvij diem. 
Accordiding to original 
Ordinance of Ed. III., 
1344. 
'’Masons. 
Carpenters 
Smiths at Is. 
314^ Engineers lOd. 
Tent-makers 6d. & 
Miners 3d. 
^Gunners 
According to Rapin'a and 
Grafton’s chronicles. 
Rich. II. 
1377-1399 
Not traced. 
1398. His Majesty, with a great power 
and artillery, embarked for Ireland and brought 
the greater part of that realm into good order. 
Hen. IY. 
1399-1413 
("1400. His Majesty, with a great provision 
j of men, munition, and artillery, marched into 
Wales and drove the French out of that 
country. 
1402. Rattle of Homildon. 1403. Battle 
j of Shrewsbury. 
1 1405. His Majesty marched with his army 
into the North, and with his artillery besieged 
Berwick. The first shot overthrew part of 
j one of the towers, Avhich caused the surrender, 
j The army afterwards proceeded to Wales. 
(_ 1408. Battle of Bramham Moor. 
Hen. Y. 
1413-1422 
1414 
Nichol.Mer- 
burg (or de 
Merburg.) 
" Magister Vibrelicit: —(not Master of the 
Ordnance , as rendered in Rymer’s Feeder a). 
1415. Siege of Harfleur, which the artil¬ 
lery so successfully breached as to cause 
capitulation. Four Flemish “Master-Gunners” 
were also of the expedition, viz., Gerald Yan 
Willighen, Haynes Joye, Walter Stotmaker, 
Drovanskesall Coykyer. Battle of Agincourt, 
at which the above were engaged. The 
original (parchment) muster rolls of the army 
embarked this year {Monstracio hominum ad 
arma armatorum et saggittarioruni . . ). 1 
give the names of counts {comes), knights, 
^esquires, and of some 20,000 men; but are 
1 In extended form—the original being in contractions. 
