Practical Manual of Artillery

Primarily, for the salary of the Lord of the Horses, 30 crowns of pay are paid per month.
For two Halberdiers of his guard, 4 crowns per month for each one as pay.
For one Interpreter, 10 crowns per month.
For one Quartermaster, 10 crowns of pay per month.
For an official of this Quartermaster, 4 crowns per month.
For one Barigello police official, 12 crowns per month.
For a Lieutenant of this one, 5 crowns per month.
For one Wagoner, who repairs those wagons which are given to the Lord of the Horses to conduct the victuals for all the other wagons, 8 crowns of pay per month.
For two boys of this one, with 3 crowns per month for each.
All the offices and officials aforementioned, which are paid to the Lord of the Horses, pertain to the provision of this master himself.

On the offices and officials that the King or the Prince puts over the state of the Artillery.

Chap. V.

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After we have treated in the preceding chapters of the persons of rank and service who pertain to the provision of the General of the Artillery and the Lord of the Horses who serve in the enterprise, in the present chapter we treat of those persons or ministers that the King or Prince, Lord of the army, assigns and puts over the state of the artillery. And first of the Monitionieri Munition-masters or Stewards, whose number will be two or three, and more or less, according to how large the army is. Among whom all the munitions and apparatus of the artillery must be distributed in the form written below, that is, that one of them must have the oversight and charge of all the mounted artillery, and render account and reason for it, with the cannon balls and gunpowder only. And the other should have charge of the ammunition of arquebus powder, and the cord or match to light it, lead, pikes, lances, and other shafts, corslets, morions, trumpets, and other fireworks, and finally of all arms, both offensive and defensive. The other two have the care of the rest of the munitions, that is, copper sheets, ladles, risuladori tools for clearing debris from the bore, hay-removers, slanate tools for cleaning artillery, saltpeter, sulfur, coals—both for blacksmithing and for the forge—nail-making materials of every sort, iron and ironwork for the artillery, steel, balls, saws, pikes, spikes, hoes and pickaxes, axes, pruning hooks and hatchets, cables, irons and nails for shoeing horses, bellows, small tubs, large and small anvils, large lanterns, tallow, wax, oakum, glue for gluing, candles, torches, boards, a great quantity of small baskets or scorbelletti wicker containers, hemp rope both thick and thin, twine, boats to form bridges, ladders—both those of rope and others—chains, machines to mount the artillery, to pull it, and conduct it, such as winches with their pulleys, flat-wagons, small carts, sledges, the derrick, jacks, small ladders, benches made with a ridge like a donkey's back, which the Spanish artillerymen call burro literally 'donkey', a trestle or support, the large bench, and infinite other instruments. Which Stewards each had 20 crowns of pay per month.

The King or Prince also puts over the state of the artillery three other personages, that is, an Accountant, a Paymaster, and a General Inspector. Among which officials and the Chancellor, whom the General of the Artillery puts, the accounting for all expenses made must be found, both of money and of munitions, and all other things that will be dispensed regarding the state of it during the war. Which officials are of the greatest utility to the Prince, because with their assistance and faith, and by the vouchers given by the General himself, it is confirmed (as has been said) the truth of everything, both in extracting money from the Treasurers and munitions from the Stewards. And it is known for what effect, and in what manner and time, the aforementioned monies and munitions were dispensed for the use and benefit of the army.