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THE MASTER-G-UNNERS OP ENGLAND. 
SUCCESSION LIST OF THE MASTER-GUNNERS OF ENGLAND. 
Reign. 
Date o 
Appt. 
Name. 
War Services, &c. 
James I. 
(Contd.) 
f appointing Captain Richard Leake to the 
| office, recapitulates the continuity of succes- 
| sion of his predecessors (since Statute oj 
J Monopolies) as Fenrutter, S. Bull, W. Bull, 
j Hammond, Reynolds, J. Weymes, and Capt. 
| Valentine Pyne. There is not any Royal 
j Warrant, nor other document, to be found 
which mentions John Wornn. 
Chas.. I. 
1625-1496 
Interregnum 
1688 
James 
Weymes 
(Royalist) 
("1645 Master 
\ Francis 
Furvin. 
\ (Parliamen¬ 
tarian.) 
i 
1649 Richard 
Woollaston. 
1635. Monntjoy, Earl of Newport, Master- 
General. (The Board of Ordnance still in 
commission). 
1689. The Master-Gunner of England 
took the field against the Scotch (pay at 6s. 8d). 
1642. In the Royalist Train of Artillery, 
at the battle of Edge Hill, the Deputy of the 
Master-Gunner of England was Wm. Betts. 
In this year the Master-General was styled 
i Governor and General of the Ordnance (Sir 
Timothy Tyrell), and the Earl of Peterborough 
was appointed General of Artillery. Shot 
picked up on the field (Edge Hill) are still in 
the possession of the tenant of the farm whose 
family have held the farm ever since 1642. 1 
1644. Pressed by the Parliamentarians in 
the battle of Compredy Bridge, the Master- 
Gunner of England , Jas. Weymes, was taken 
prisoner. At the Restoration (1660) he was 
^re-appointed to his office with rank of Colonel. 
Appointed Master-Gunner of the Field to 
Cromwell. 
1649. Richard Woollaston, as Master- 
Gunner of England , appointed by the Com¬ 
mittee for the National Safety, and in 1650 
Major-General Harrison, as Lieut.-General of 
j the Ordnance. 
J N.B.—Of the ordnance captured in Stirling 
' Castle by Cromwell’s Lieut.-General of the 
Ordnance (Colonel Moncke) 11 were leather 
guns. 
The honorable loyalty, tact, and quiet 
dignity of the Ordnance Officers in the Tower 
of London, during the distracting crisis be¬ 
tween the King and the Parliamentarians, are 
^finely depicted in the following petition which 
1 According to letter from C. J. Ribton Turner, Esquire, the historian of Warwickshire. 
