THE MASTER-GUNNERS OP ENGLAND. 
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SUCCESSION LIST OF THE MASTER-GUNNERS OF ENGLAND. 
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'"they presented to Parliament while prisoners 
for having refused to issue to the Parlia¬ 
mentarians ordnance and equipments entrusted 
to them under their oath of fealty to the 
King:— 
“The humble petition of Captain Francis 
Conningsby, Richard March, and Edward 
Sherburne, Officers of his Majesty’s ordnance, 
shewing,—That whereas your Lordships’ 
petitioners have been divers days under re¬ 
straint by your Lordships’ command for not 
giving Consent to the issuing of some munition 
in their custody, the petitioners humbly pray 
that your Lordships will be pleased to take 
into consideration:— 
(1) That they are strictly bound, by the 
duty of their place, not to dispose of the 
munition in their custody contrary to his 
Majesty’s pleasure. 
(2) That before the petitioners received any 
commands from the right honorable the Earl 
of Essex, his excellency, for the delivery of 
the munition in the warrant expressed, the 
, petitioners received strict command, under 
^ his Majesty’s sign manual, not to issue out 
any munition without express warrant from 
his Majesty. 
(3) That the petitioners have, these four 
years and-a-half, been unpaid the fees and 
allowances belonging to their places. 
Therefore, their humble suit is that, in re¬ 
gard to the giving of their consent to your 
Lordships’ commands in this particular, would 
not only be a great breach of trust in them, 
but tend to their undoing; that your Lord- 
ships would be honorably pleased to accept of 
their willingness and cheerfulness to obey 
your Lordships’ commands, so far as may 
stand with their own integrity and safety, 
and that your Lordship would be pleased to 
release them from their present restraint 
whereby they are put to great charge and 
suffer much in their own private occasions. 
And your petitioners shall ever pray for your 
Lordships. 
(Signed) Francis Conningsby. 
( „ ) Richard March. 
( ,, ) Edward Sherburne. 
It is ordered, by the Lords and Commons 
