THE MASTER-GUNNERS OF ENGLAND. 
£23 
SUCCESSION LIST OF THE MASTER-GUNNERS OF ENGLAND, 
Reign. 
Date of 
Appt. 
Name. 
War Services, &c. 
Hen. VIII. 
( Contd .) 
1523 
Christopher 
Morris 
(Knighted in 
1537.) 
1 
I 
''C. Morris, Kniglit, Master of the Ordnance, 
Anthony Knevot, and Peter Mawtes, Gentle¬ 
men of the Privy Chamber, Overseers of the 
fraternity or guild of St. George, granting 
licence to them to be overseers of the science 
of Artillery, viz., for long bows, cross-bows, 
and hand guns ; and the said Sir C. Morris, 
Comelys Johnson, Anthony Anthony, and 
Henry Johnson, to be masters and rulers of 
the said science of artillery during their 
lives, &c. 
1544. The Earl of Hertford, with an army, 
and artillery commanded by Sir C. Morris, 
embarked for Scotland—landing near Leith, 
which they immediately captured. The army 
then marched towards Edinburgh, when Sir 
C. Morris, with his gunners and ordnance, 
beat the Scots from their ordnance and opened 
the Canongate with the shot of their great 
ordnance. 
The King, with an army, passed over to 
Boulogne, in this year, where Sir C. Morris 
with his great artillery and mortar pieces so 
battered the walls, from three several places, 
that there were very few houses left; the 
breaches being practicable, the assault was 
made by the Lord Admiral Dudley, under the 
protection of the artillery, which kept up a 
continual fire on the breach during the ad¬ 
vance. After a severe conflict the assailants 
were recalled, shortly after which the Governor 
capitulated. Sir C. Morris was wounded at 
the siege, and appears to have died shortly 
afterwards—as Sir Thomas Wiat or Wyatt 
was appointed Lieutenant of the Ordnance in 
1546. With this expedition two companies 
of the artillery train (100 gunners each) 
embarked, each commanded by a Master- 
Gunner (Burmadyne de Vallowayes and John 
JBasset, each at 4s. per diem, or double pay). 
Edward VI. 
1547-1553 
1546 
or 1547 
Christopher 
Cowld (or 
Gould.) 
< 
! 
^ Named in the Royal Warrant of Queen 
Elizabeth (given in full in “ Proceedings ” 
R.A. Institution, Vol. XIV., No. 3). His pay 
is therein prescribed as 2s. per diem, with 
allowances, &c.—not Is. as stated in the 
Cleaveland MSS., p. 14. (This was the rate 
^of pay enjoyed by Members of Parliament at 
