WITH NOTES. 4G7 



to Walsyngham, recommending one of his countrymen, 

 who had invented an harquebuse &quot; 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.&quot; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 

 Series, 1547-1580. Edited by E. Lemon, F.S.A., 8vo. 

 1856, p. 696. No. 45. 



A fixth way, 3 moft excellent for 

 Sakers, differing from the other, yet 

 as fwift. 



8 way omitted. 



[For Sakers and Minyons.~\ Sakers were cannon, 5 

 to 8 pounders ; and Minion, long 4 pounders, or short 

 3 pounders. 



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A feventh, tried and approved 

 before the late King (of ever blefled 

 memory) and an hundred Lords 

 and Commons, in a Cannon of 8. 

 inches half quarter, 4 to flioot Bullets 

 of 64. pounds weight, and 2 4. pounds 

 of pouder, twenty times in fix mi 

 nutes ; fo clear from danger, that 

 after all were difcharged, a Pound of 

 Butter did not melt being laid upon 

 the Cannon-britch, nor the green 



* a quarter. P. 



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