1872.] Mediaval and Modern Ordnance. 345 
Having thus briefly glanced at the ordnance of Medizeval 
times, and followed its characteristics as far as the time of 
the Tudors, we may here notice that ever since that period 
the architecture of artillery has been almost at a stand 
still; and the accompanying table of the time of Charles I. 
will give a good idea of the size of British Service Ordnance 
and Ammunition in use during the seventeenth century; 
and we know that those of the eighteenth century were not 
far different until 1779-80, the period when systematic 
improvements commenced in the manufacture of car- 
ronades, followed by General Blomefield’s long naval pat- 
tern guns, Congreves, Dickson’s, Millar’s, Monk’s, and 
Dundas’s, the latest guns cast in the service. 
Extracted by Colonel Clark, R.A., F.R.S., from ‘The Complete Souldier.” 
Audore Thomas Smith, 1628. 
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Cannon SQ os) G+ 8 7 64 250 32 8000 12 
Cannon Serpentine .. 7 74 52 23% 26 7000 IIf 
French Cannon.. .. 74 Gl 403 Pp wey 6500 17) 
Demi-Cannon eldest.. 63 64 368 21-8, 20 6000 II} 
Demi-Cannon ordinary 64 64 32 203 18 5600 104 
Demi-Cannon .. .. 6 52 244 18$ 16 5000 II 
Giivering! a.) sh. ss 53 54 19 ie 15 4600 13} 
Ordinary Culvering .. 54 5 164 16} 12} 4300 12 
Demi-Culvering Ao 4 44 11g 14} 9 3000 II 
», something less. 4} 4 9 gy 3 2300 10 
Saker ordinary .. .. 32 3h 6 ree 5 1900 94 
Sakeret or Minion .. 34 3 42 1033; 343 1100 8 
Falcon Soho Yeh acs 23 2% 24 852, 24 750 5] 
Palconet =... <2 <=. 2} 2 1} as 14 400 6 
Notwithstanding, the science of the theory of gunnery 
regarding the flight of projectiles through the air were not 
thought unworthy the careful notice of such illustrious 
philosophers as Leonardo da Vinci in 1452, followed by Tar- 
taglia (time of Henry VIII.), and Galileo, in his dialogues 
on motion, published 1646. Later, the names Sir Isaac 
Newton, Robins, 1742, Hutton, and Sir J. Herschel, bring 
us down to our own times. But although modifications 
had been occasionally made in the manufacture of ordnance, 
the general principles of construction remained unaltered. 
Captain Stoney tells us, that ‘“ Anyone who examines 
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