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. 
Queen 
Elizabeth 
( Contd.) 
1578 
Stephen Bull 
Had served as a Gunner and Master-Gunner 
under Henry VIII., Mary, and Edward VI., 
by sea and land, which services, together with 
his inventions in gunnery and fireworks, are 
the grounds assigned for his preferment as 
Master-Gunner of England for life, with 
reversion to his sons, entail. 
The “Bull ” family appear to have degener¬ 
ated into manufacturers and supervisors of 
artillery drill, and as Master-Gunners of 
England did not take the field. 
A Colonel of Artillery (Christopher Blount) 
first appointed in 1597. 
1589 
Stephen Bull 
(junr.) 
Joint Master-Gunner of England with his 
father since 1578. Had served as a Gunner 
and Master-Gunner since 1561. 
Appointment of Master-General of the 
Ordnance put into commission until 1596. 
In 1596 there were—Master-General of the 
Ordnance, Earl of Essex ; Lieut.-General of 
\ the Ordnance, Sir Robert Constable; Lieut, of 
the Ordnance, Sir George Carew ; Colonel of 
the Artillery, Sir Christopher Blount. 
1598. Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, 
Jno. Davis (Knighted in 1599). 
1603. Charles Blount, Earl of Devon, 
appointed Master-General, vice Earl of Essex 
^(who had been suspended) since 1600. 
James I. 
1603-1625 
1611 
William 
Hammond. 
f 1608. Lord Carew (afterwards Earl of 
<! Totness) appointed Master-General. 
1618. A General of Artillery first named. 
PRIVY COUNCIL. 
At Whitehall, 4th July, 1620. 
“ Whereas the Tower of London being his 
Majesty’s royal castle, one of the principal 
and most eminent forts of this kingdom, a 
great strength and ornament to the city, the 
chief storehouse and magazine of warlike pro¬ 
visions of this kingdom, hath antiently been 
fortified, not only within the walls, ditches 
and wharfs of the same, but also such care 
taken in the minorits (the minories) and other 
neighboring places, as well for the lodging and 
receipt of the principal officers of the Ord¬ 
nance, as likewise for artificers, gunmakers } 
