In examining the individual, apart from the collective, duties of the principal officers of the Ordnance, we find that the Lieutenant-General had the supervision of the military branch, and acted as a sort of Adjutant to the Master, who looked to him for all information connected with the various trains of artillery at the Tower and elsewhere. These he was bound always to have fit and ready to march: he had to direct and superintend the practice of the Master-Gunner of England, Firemaster and his mates, Fireworkers and Gunners, and acquaint the Master with their proficiencies; and also to see that all officials connected with the Department did their several duties. The other four principal officers of the Ordnance were the Surveyor- General, the Clerk of the Ordnance, the Storekeeper, and the Clerk of the Deliveries, any three of whom formed a quorum. At the beginning of the present century the salaries of these officials were respectively 1225_l._, 825_l._, 725_l._, and 1000_l._ with a further annual sum of 200_l._ to the Clerk of the Deliveries during war. The whole of the principal officers were allowed 25_l._ a year for stationery, besides certain patent fees varying from 54_l._ 15_s._ in the case of the principal Storekeeper, to 18_l._ 5_s._ in that of the Clerk of the Deliveries. The departmental expenses were swollen by an army of public and private secretaries, clerks, and attendants. As the work of the Lieutenant-General lay with the _personnel_, so that of the Surveyor-General lay with the _matériel_. On him lay the responsibility of superintending all stores, taking remains, and noting all issues and receipts. The Clerk of the Ordnance had, in addition to the ordinary correspondence of the department, to look after salaries, debts, debentures, and bills falling due, and generally to perform, on a large scale, the duties of a modern book-keeper. If we may judge by the correspondence on financial matters which is to be found among the Ordnance Records, there must have been many a Clerk of the Ordnance whose days and nights were haunted by visions of bills falling due which could not be paid. During the times of the Stuarts, the poverty of the office was sometimes as terrible as the shifts to which the Board had recourse were pitiable.