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THE MASTER-GUNNERS OR ENGLAND. 
SUCCESSION LIST OF THE MASTER-GUNNERS OF ENGLAND. 
Reign. 
Date of 
Appt. 
Name. 
War Services, &c. 
Interregnum 
(Contd.) 
- 
"in Parliament assembled, that the Officers of 
the Ordnance in the Tower of London shall 
forthwith, upon sight of this order, deliver 
the keys of the office of the ordnance, arms, 
ammunition, and stores there, to such as the 
committee for the defence of the kingdom 
shall appoint to receive them; or else that the 
doors of the said office shall be forthwith 
broken up, and the charge and keeping of the 
said arms shall be committed into the hands 
of such as the said committee shall think fit— 
who shall take inventories of the same, to the 
intent that a true account may be taken of 
the said arms to the use of his Majesty, the 
k Parliament, and the kingdom.” 1 
Chas. II. 
1660-1685 
1660 
Colonel 
James 
Weymes 
( re-appoin¬ 
ted ). 
At the Restoration, Sir William Compton 
was appointed Master-General of the Ordnance , 
with the celebrated Colonel Wm. Legge of the 
\ Artillery as his Lieutenant. 
The assigned grounds for re-appointment 
of Colonel Weymes as Master-Gunner of 
England were his services during the late 
^wars of Charles I. 
1666 
Captain 
Valentine 
Pyne. 
< 
" War services recorded on tablet subjoined. 
Had been appointed Master-Gunner (from 
Gunner) in 1668 ; appointed T)eputy-Master - 
Gunner of England in 1665 (probably owing 
to the great age of Colonel Weymes). The 
grounds for his appointment were also his 
services in the wars of Charles I. His 
brother, Richard Pyne i was appointed Master- 
Gunner of Gravesend on 31st October, 1673 : 
and his father was also an Officer of the 
Ordnance. Like his predecessor, William 
Hamond, Captain Pyne had amassed much 
wealth during his tenure of high office. 
The exceptional esteem, services, and 
reputation attaching to this ubiquitous repre¬ 
sentative of the Ubigue corps are marked on 
the magnificent marble tablet still existing on 
the north-east wall of the Royal Chapel in the 
Tower of London, erected to his memory alone 
^of the Master-Gunners of England. 2 
1 At this date Ordnance Officers were styled Officers of Thordinances, as appears in the book 
temporarily used for record of the issue of guns and warlike stores under orders from the Parlia¬ 
mentarian General. 
3 Prepared from a photograph taken in the Tower Chapel by Bombardier Andrews, of the R.A. 
Record Offiee, by special-permission of Lieut.-General Milinan, C.B. 
