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Apprenticed to Thomas Hollis, 1640, Free of Blacksmiths Co., 1655, Made free of Gunmakers Co., 1661, Elected Assistant, 1664, Master, 1673, Gunmaker, St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross, 1660-75,
Appointed Gunsmith without Fee-in-Ordinary to Charles II, 1668, Contractor to Ordnance, 1661-80, Gun viewer to Hudson Bay Co., 1681-3.
Quoted from the diary of Samuel Pepys, March 29, 1667: "One Truelocke the famous gunsmith, that is a mighty ingenious man and he did take my gun in pieces and made me understand the secrets thereof." |
