Ordnance Office, State of the Small Armes in His Majestie's Stores of Small Gunns, manuscript, 1695-97

ORDNANCE OFFICE

State of the Small Armes in His Majestie's Stores of Small Gunns within the Office of the Ordnance beginning the 1st February 1694/5

manuscript in English, with monthly records of stores of various types of match-lock muskets, snaphance muskets, carbines, pistols, other firearms, holsters, bandoliers, cartouche boxes, girdles, carbine belts, waist belts, broad shoulder belts, bayonets, miscellaneous items including historic firearms (e.g. a pistol, carbine, and fowling-piece "said to bee King Henry the 8th"), "Arms seized upon Examenacion of the Conspiracy in 1683 [i.e. the Rye House plot]", and "Armes Lodged by my Lord Dartmouth", recording the numbers of serviceable, repairable, and unserviceable weapons, 67 pages, folio (450 x 295mm.), February 1695 to September 1697, vellum boards with gilt stamp centrepiece of the royal arms of William and Mary, final leaf nearly detached and lacking c.2 leaves at the end, damp staining, binding stained 

A RECORD OF THE ARMS HELD IN THE TOWER OF LONDON IN THE REIGN OF WILLIAM AND MARY. The Ordnance stored more than 37,000 outdated snaphance muskets with walnut and ash stock by the summer of 1697; the next most common firearm was the round-lock pistol, of which over 2700 were stored in the same period.