286 THE MASTEB-GUNNERS OE ENGLAND. 
SUCCESSION LIST OF THE MASTEE-GUNNEES OF ENGLAND. 
Reign. 
Date of 
Appt. 
Name. 
War Services, See. 
Geo. I. 
1714-1727 
[Contd.) 
Geo. II. 
1727-1760 
''at Greenwich, 4th December, 1736. His 
obituary records that “ he behaved with great 
gallantry in King William and Queen Anne’s 
wars, both by sea and land. By sea anno 
1694, against Kilmore Castle, near London¬ 
derry; anno 1694 at the bombardment of 
Diepe, Havre de Grace, and at the expedition 
to Vigo. In Ireland at the battles of the 
Boyne, Agrim, Limerick, Galway and Drog¬ 
heda. At most of the sieges in Inlanders, and 
at the battles of Landen, Hochstet, Bamilies, 
Oudenarde, Ssc.” 
1716. In this year, when a spasmodic fit 
of retrenchment was being enacted, the Board 
of Ordnance suggested to the Duke of Marl¬ 
borough that the salaries attaching to some 
venerable offices might be estreated and 
applied towards the establishment of a 'per¬ 
manent Artillery Train—among these being 
that of the Master-Gunner of England —on 
the ground that (as in the case of the aged 
Captain Richard Leake) “ when there hath 
< been any extraordinary service required, this 
office (Board of Ordnance) hath been obliged 
to inlist other persons, and to make demand 
in Parliament for payment of the same.” It 
was then “ humbly proposed that as vacancys 
shall happen in the said establishments the 
salarys of them be applied to the forming of 
one or more companies of gunners. . . .” 
On this occasion this premier office of artillery 
was saved from the woodman’s axe, though 
in the mutilated form of being designated 
Master-Gunner of Whitehall and St. James’s 
Park (London), with reduced allowances of a 
Master-Gunner, i.e. 3s. per diem, and official 
residence in St. James’s Park ; and the three 
“ Mates ” or Deputies were retired, but not 
to be replaced at death. The Artillery Train 
remained permanent. In 1721 we find the 
calm narration of the fact that “ Colonel 
James Pendlebury is paid his allowance as 
Master-Guuner of England .” 
1725-1728. John, Duke of Argyle and 
Greenwich, appointed Master-General of the 
^Ordnance. 
