The Life Times And Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester
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2| ft. 10 17 24 Match Wheel Flint 62. A way for a Harquebufs, a Crock, or Ship-musquet, fix upon a Carri age, ihooting with fuch expedition, as 1 without danger one may charge, level, and difcharge 2 them fixty times in a minute of an hour, two or three together. 1 as that. 2 level and discharge omitted. [A way for a Harquebus, a Crock. ] Arquebuse, cor rupted to Harquebus a firearm requiring a forked rest placed in the ground, on which to steady the heavy barrel, which carried a ball of 2 ounc...es, or for fortresses 83- ounces. Arquebuse & croc a small piece of ordnance placed on a stock or club, fired by a match. We find among the records of the State Paper Office the following notice in the Calendars, viz. : John the Almain* writes * Almain engineers seem to have been in much repute. WITH NOTES. 4G7 to Walsyngham, recommending one of his countrymen, who had invented an harquebuse " that shall containe ten balls or pellets of lead, all the which shall goe off, one after another, having once given fire, so that with one harquebuse one may kill ten theeves or other enemies without recharging.
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