THE MASTER-GUNNERS OF ENGLAND. 
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SUCCESSION LIST OF THE MASTER-GUNNERS OF ENGLAND. 
Reign. 
Date of 
Appt. 
Name. 
War Services, &c. 
Anne. 
(Contd.J 
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To the M.G. of E. ; and Master-Gunner of 
England in April 1702, vice Colonel Browne, 
for good services by land and sea. 
Captain Silver died in 1710, and lies buried 
in Shafwich Church, Somersetshire. The late 
Lieut.-Colonol A. Warry, when D.-A.-A.-G., 
discovered this, and kindly communicated it 
to me. 
12th May, 1702. Earl of Marlborough 
^appointed Master-General of the Ordnance . 
Geo. I. 
1714-1727 
1710 
Colonel 
James 
Pendlebury. 
* 
f Col. Pendlebury’s appointment as Master- 
Gunner of England at 2s. per diem, and 
allowances, is dated 29th November. His 
services had been exceptionally distinguished 
with Marlborough’s army. Col. Pendlebury 
was Comptroller of the first permanent Train 
of Artillery on 1st May, 1698 (of which Lieut.- 
Colonel George Browne was Colonel, and 
Captain Albrecht Borgard, Adjutant), and 
was then styled “ Mr.,” third in point of 
seniority in the Train. He embarked for 
Holland in 1702, as Comptroller ; in 1706 
was appointed “ Chief Firemaster in 1708, 
Second Colonel and Comptroller in Holland ; 
November, 1709, Master-Gunner of England ; 
December, 1709, Colonel of Royal Artillery 
in the Low Countries; 1711, Second Colonel 
and Comptroller in Flanders ; and in 1715 
was placed on half-pay at £1 12s. 6d. per 
diem. 
1712. Richard, Earl of Rivers, appointed 
Master-Generat; 1712, succeeded by James, 
Duke of Hamilton. 
1714. Duke of Marlborough re-appointed 
Master-General. 
1715. Major Bousfield, “Mate,” or 
Deputy, to the Master- Gunner of England to 
have the care and command of the two com¬ 
panies of gunners and matrosses quartered at 
Deptford and Woolwich; and that every 
Saturday at three o’clock in the afternoon, 
“ they be mustered and paid at the gun sliedd 
on Blackheath.” 
Major Wm. Bousfield was the last survi¬ 
vor of the three “ Mates ” or Deputies of 
J;he Master-Gunner of England. He died 
