WITH NOTES. 469 



In the Bodleian Library there is a folio volume of the 

 MS. papers of General Mountagu, or the Earl of Sand 

 wich, lettered on the back &quot; Carte Papers, 1604-1684. 

 Letters to Earl of Sandwich, &c. 74,&quot; in which is the 

 following : &quot; Invention for Cannon to doe extraordinary 

 execution. (No. 123.) Canon that shall shute more then 

 400 paces, a bulett of four fadem longe to destroy the 

 Eiggings of any ship, the which bulett must necessarily 

 goe a twart, and cannot come perpendicularly, as other 

 chayne buletts, and other such like, who by that means 

 may misse the intended effect and passe through the 

 cordage or Eiggings. 7 



Among the Sloane MSS. in the British Museum is one, 

 No. 2497, with rude drawings of cannon, &c. viz.: a 

 fauconet ; a faucon 5 a minnion 5 a saker 5 a demi-culve- 

 ringe ; a culvering ; a demi-cannon ; a cannon ; a 

 cannon-peuterer ; a cannon-rial ; each with its proper 

 ball, ramrods, &c. 



Eobert Norton, Engineer and Gunner in &quot; The gun 

 ners dialogue with the art of great Artillery, &quot; a black 

 letter quarto, accompanying &quot; The Arte of shooting in 

 great ordnance,&quot; by William Bourne, 1643, gives the 

 names, &c. of ordnance, thus : 



Cannon of 8 . weighing 8,000 Ibs. 



___ of 7 . . . . 7,000 



Demi-Cannon .... 6,000 



Culvering .... 4,500 



Demi-Culvering . . . 2,500 



Saker 1,500 



Minion . . . . . 1,200 



Among other inquiries in the course of the dialogue 

 occur the following: &quot; If you were to make a shot in 

 the night, at a mark showed you in the day, how would 

 you prepare for it?&quot; And : &quot; How would you make a 



