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THE MASTER-GUNNERS OF ENGLAND. 
SUCCESSION LIST OF THE MASTER-GUNNERS OF ENGLAND. 
Reign. 
Date of 
Appt. 
Name. 
War Services, &c. 
Hen. VIII. 
1509-1547 
(Contd.J 
1511 
Thomas 
Harte (or 
Hart.) 
- 
r 1511. Sir Edward Poinyngs, Kt., with 
1500 archers, and artillery commanded by 
Thomas Hart, Governor or Chief Gunner, 
embarked on an expedition to Flanders to 
assist the Lady Margaret, Duchess of Savoy. 
They besieged and won the Castle of Brion- 
noist, and took possession of the town of 
Aiske. 
1512. Thomas Grey, Marquis of Dorset, 
embarked with an army and artillery for Spain. 
1513. Sir Sampson Norton, Master of the 
Ordnance. King Henry, with an army, and the 
Master of the Ordnance, with the King’s 
artillery, as fauchons, slings, bombardes, 
carts with powder, stones, bowes, arrows, &c. 
the whole No. of carriages 1300, the leaders 
and drivers of the same 1900 men, marched 
from Calais for the siege of Tourenne. On 
the march, by the negligence of the carters, a 
great curtail (called the John Evangelist) was 
overthrown into a great pond of water, also a 
bombarde of iron (called the Red G-un) over¬ 
thrown into a lane. The first gun was 
captured bv the French and carried into 
Boulogne; the other was recovered by the 
Lord Barnes, captain of the pioneers and 
laborers, protected by the Earl of Essex and 
his company. On the 14th August his 
majesty arrived before Tourenne, enclosing 
his camp with artillery, as fauchons, serpen¬ 
tines, cart hackbushes, and tried harrows, &c., 
and with his great ordnance did sore beat the 
walls ; and Sir Alex. Buinara, a captain of 
miners, caused a mine to be enterprised to 
enter the town. Battle of Spurs —On the 
1 6th of August, the Master of the Ordnance 
threw 5 bridges across the river, over which 
the army and great ordnance passed, and 
attacked with success the French army when 
the English artillery (culverins) came into 
play. The batteries having breached the walls 
in several places, Tourenne surrendered on the 
18th. The walls and fortifications were razed, 
the town burned, and the ordnance sent to 
Aire for the King’s use. On the 23rd Aug., 
his Majesty marched to invest Tournay : the 
siege commenced on 23rd, with 21 pieces of 
great artillery, and the town surrendered on 
k the 29th. 
