Office of ORDNANCE

Office of ORDNANCE, an office kept within the tower of London, which superintends and disposes of all the arms, instruments, and utensils of war, both by sea and land.

Plate CXL

A. Bell. 6.

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Plate CXLI.

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A. Bell. Sc.

in all the magazines, garrisons, and forts, in Great Britain.
ORDONNANCE, in architecture, is the composition of a building, and the disposition of its parts, both with regard to the whole and to one another; or, as Mr. Evelyn expresses it, determining the measure of what is assigned to the several apartments.