1 Master of the Ordnance. 1 Lieutenant of ditto. 1 Comptroller. 4 Gentlemen of the Ordnance. 1 Master-Gunner. 30 Gunners. 40 Matrosses. It will be seen that in Tables 2, 3, 4, and 5, the Artillery element is alone given. Nor are the proportions of the trains, and their constituent parts, such as to enable us to draw any fixed law from them. They are merely interesting—not very instructive. Table 1, on the other hand, is both interesting _and_ instructive. The appearance of medical officers in the train of 1618, and of matrosses—a species of assistant- gunner—in that of 1639, will not have escaped the reader's notice. In the next chapter we shall find that the presence of a man like Lord Dartmouth, and his predecessor, Sir William Compton, at the Ordnance, reveals itself in the greater method visible in the Artillery arrangements; and with the introduction of Continental artillerists, under William III., comes a greater experience of the value of Artillery, which nearly brought about, in 1698, that permanent establishment which was delayed by circumstances until 1716. ----- Footnote 2: This table is reproduced from the MSS. of the late Colonel Cleaveland. Footnote 3: Feurutter, according to Colonel Miller. Footnote 4: Fourutter, according to Colonel Cleaveland. CHAPTER III. THE RESTORATION, AND REVOLUTION OF 1688. THE first step, of course, on the restoration of Charles II., was to undo everything in the Ordnance, and remove every official bearing the mark of the Protectorate. Having filled the vacant places with his own nominees, he seemed to consider his duty done, and, with one exception, the official history of the Ordnance for the next few years was a blank. The exception was the Company of Gunners at the Tower, which from 52, in 1661, rose to 90 in the following year, 98 in 1664, and then the old normal number 100.