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achment one master gunner at 5s. and

> mates at 3s., &c. (ibid., p. 55). The in to proceed with the Channel fleet on

summer expedition in 1692 included

> master gunner of England at 13s. 4td. I ninety -two gunners at 2s. (ibid., p. 57) Cdward French was serving as master xner at Tynemouth Castle in 1688 ; and >mas Holman, who was appointed a iner, April 30, 1680, was sent with an illery detachment to the relief of London- ry, with the rank of master gunner, in y, 1689 (Dalton's ' Army Lists,' vol. v.

2, p. 11). In Chamberlayne's 'Present te of Great Britain,' 1716, mention is ie of Thomas Cornelius, master gunner
 * he Tower of London at 361. 10s. a year,

h four other gunners (73Z.) ; and it also 3 there was a master gunner at Berwick, lisle, Chester, Cockham Wood, Calsted tie, Guernsey and Castle Cornet, Hurst tie, Kingston-upon-Hull, Languard Fort,

Mawes, Pendennis Castle, Portsmouth, erness, Sandham Castle (I.W.), Yarmouth tie (I.W.), and Cowes Castle (I.W.) >ectively, each at 36Z. 10s. a year ; while mouth, Tilbury Fort, Tinmouth Castle,

Upton Castle had two master gunners i. Under them were, two, three, four,

or seven other gunners, according to the

or importance of the garrison, the chief 3 having : Plymouth 18, Portsmouth 23, erness 13, and Tilbury Fort 10 other ners, all at 181. 5s. each. The War ce Papers in the Record Office further - e give the names of several other isons where gunners were stationed, ng them being Gillingham. These local ners were occasionally removed to other ions, and some of them were promoted naster gunners, all appointments being Le by warrant of the Board of Ordnance. >seph Brome, who was a drummer in

company of the Royal Regiment of llery in the Island of Minorca in April, >, died master gunner of England, il 24, 1796. I think the late General lulph was the last (honorary) master aer of St. James's Park.

W. R. WILLIAMS.

tie King's Regulations of 1912, amended iug. I/ 1914, par. 1767, shows that a ber gunner, 1st class, in the army ranks . a naval carpenter and a naval artificers' neer, but the naval men are the seniors.

presume that there are still master lers in the Royal Artillery I have ing here to verify this. I know, however,

such a rank existed, as in the past I

knew many of them. I do not think that the rank of master gunner could have been used in the navy for a long time past, as I presume the naval rank of chief gunner which ranks with a second lieutenant in the army gives to the holder duties similar to those of a master gunner in the armv : unless the gunner in the navy does the work this I do not know, having no knowledge of naval duties. HERBERT SOUTHAM.

Although this word is marked " obsolete " in the ' N.E.D.,' it appears to be still in use in India. By a curious coincidence within a few days after reading MR. MORIARTY'S note (ante, p. 153), I received from a friend at Simla a copy of The Statesman of April 29, 1919, published at Calcutta, con- taining inter alia an account of a riot p^t Kasur, between Ferozepore and Lahore. In a report of the circumstance by a railway official the following sentence occurs :

"The two warrant officers to whom it was reported we owed our preservation were not the two who helped us. They, Conductor Selby and Master Gunner Malatt, went on to the station in the train which was after a few minutes taken into Kasur Station. It was on the platform that these two unfortunate men were killed."

J. E. HARTING.

There is a functionary so called in Shakespeare's ' 1 Henry VI.,' i. 4.

ST. SWITHIN.

LITERATURE AND ICONOGRAPHY OF LON- DON PEACE CELEBRATIONS (12 S. v. 175). In providing a brief supplement to this note I am able to revise my last contribution. In the fourth line from end for "doyen " read " foyer." An exhibition of relics of the Armada was arranged in the foyer during the production of the spectacular drama so named, to commemorate the tercentenary of the great naval victory.

To complete my note I should add references to earlier examples of such pageants, but as a victory triumph it is apparently the first of its kind. To the civic boating episodes we need not refer. The Maria Wood is sufficiently known and the famous trip to Oxford was indiscreetly described by the mayor's chaplain, but of state pageants or river progresses I believe the earliest illustrated was Lord Sandwich's return with Catherine of Braganza. Of this rare print an example is in the Pepysian collection ; the description informs us it shows " the reception of her majesty and the King, on the River coming