Excerpt from The Pall Mall Magazine, Vol. 12: May to August, 1897

The present Battery was renovated by the first Earl when Port Admiral, and remounted with twenty-one guns, taken out of a French frigate. On these guns may still be seen an anchor, surmounted by the cap of liberty, and R. F. An Ruelle. Their base voices have constantly been called into requisition, as appears from a curious manuscript book containing a register of salutes fired. Every guest received salutes on landing and going off, and the number of guns was regulated by their rank. A prince received twenty-one guns, a dukeor archbishop nineteen, a bishop or earl fifteen, while a foreign nobleman is credited with fifteen, and an esquire with eleven. Fifteen guns regularly commemorated the anniversary of the Popish Conspiracy, and forty-two that of the King's accession. The entries for one year (1767) record the discharge of no less than 345 rounds!

This noisy hospitality has ceased, but the old guns still testify to their owner's loyalty on Her Majesty's birthday or the landing of any royal personage.

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