292 
MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OF 
“ using like Powder, Shott, and having like temper and accidents, he shall 
always make thereby the like shot.” The following results of practice carried 
on are from Eldred :— 
Guns. 
Elevation. 
Range. 
Under. 
Over. 
Wide. 
Hits. 
Basilisk. 
2° 
yds. 
1200 
yds. 
yds. 
yds. 
Thro’.* 
// . 
4f 
2000 
400 
— 
— 
— 
"Whole Culvering. 
5° 
1480 
— 
20 
— 
— 
ii a . 
8° 
2280 
— 
160 
— 
— 
Demy Culvering. 
" 3|° 
1060 
— 
20 
— 
— 
// // 
8*° 
1050 
— 
10 
— 
— 
/, i 
_A 
CO 
% 
1050 
— 
10 
— 
— 
1) D . 
. 3i° 
1040 
— 
— 
— 
Thro’. 
- 
C 3F 
1110 
10 
— 
— 
— 
ft ft . 
l 3^° 
1120 
— 
— 
— 
Throb f 
Saker. 
904 
10 
— 
— 
— 
» . 
[ 3° 
920 
— 
6 
— 
if .... .... 
r 5° 
i 
1270 
10 
— 
— 
». 
\ 
1270 
10 
— 
— 
— 
fr ... 
l 5° 
1300 
— 
20 
— 
! 
The “ wides ” were evidently not measured. The groups of shots 
bracketed together were fired at Dover from the same platform and the 
same gun. The “ under ” and “ over ** do not refer in all cases to the 
ranges given in p. 290, but give the first graze of the shot with regard to 
the target fired at. The discrepancy with regard to range which may be 
observed between this record of practice and the range table, p. 290, is 
apparent, not real, as the latter was intended for guns firing on a horizontal 
plane, and the former gives the results of practice carried on with guns 
placed on platforms which were all, more or less, elevated above the mark 
fired at. On the "whole the vice of the guns of the 17th century, in regard 
to accuracy, seems to have been, not so much the absolute inaccuracy of 
any individual gun, as the great difference of range that existed between 
any two guns of the same length, weight, and calibre, fired under the same 
* Eldred speaks with great exultation of this shot. “ It did just hit the mark, to my great 
credit and reputation,” in the presence of Sir R. Bret, Lieutenant of the Castle of Dover, 
15th Aug. 1613. 
f Fired from a platform considerably elevated above the target fired at. I have represented 
Eldred’s phrase “ a little long,” “ a little short,” by 10 yds., as the case may be. 
