Ordnance Office, or Board of Ordnance, an office which was kept within the Tower of London, and which superintended and disposed of all the arms, instruments, and utensils of war, both by sea and land, in all the magazines, garrisons, and forts of Great Britain. It was divided into two distinct branches, the civil and the military, by 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 24; but by 18 & 19 Vict. c. 117, the powers, etc., of the Board were transferred to the Secretary of State for War.
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