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The details and names of the stores in this list vary somewhat from those 
in the inventory of 1381. There are here bombardce, canones, and sclopi; 
the first being the larger, and the two latter the smaller pieces. Of the 
bombards, thirty-seven are described as a secchia , 1 2 or cum secchis , that is to 
say, with chambers like pails or pots; three others in good condition, two of 
which have cippi; nine with teleria , two of which are for stone shot; two 
small bombards, one having a broken handle, and the other having a cippus; 
and finally, in the crossbow chamber, one bombard weighing 2731b. 
Of the sclopi there were four small in one telerium; again two small in 
one telerium; thirty-five with cippi; one with and seven without teleria; 
eight others of iron, three of which were for the hand; and one small sclopus 
a cavalito et sine cavalito, i.e. to be mounted on a stand ( chevalet ), but 
without its stand. The sclopi were small guns, but wherein they differed 
from the bombards we have at present no means of judging. 
There were but three canones, two of which were in one telerium, and one 
was like a bombard without a telerium . These cannon were evidently used 
independently of the bombards; and the word secchice seems to have taken 
the place of canones as chambers for bombards. 
These items explain almost beyond the possibility of farther doubt both 
the cippum and the telerium. In an item of eight large bombards there is 
missing one large cippum of wood; and the very next item is, one cippum 
for a bombard with binders ( corigie ) of iron. Both bombardm and sclopi 
are furnished with cippi, or with teleria, but in no single instance do they 
both occur together. They were evidently both wooden supports, stocks, or 
beds, for the guns, but there was some technical difference between them, 
which we are unable to discover. One item here, viz.: four small sclopi in 
one telerium, ought to set at rest for ever any doubt on the subject of the 
telerium; for how could four guns be in uno telerio, if the telerium were 
the handle or tail of a gun ? What the handle was called we see in the 
“ bombarda cum manico fracto. - ” 
The corigie, or iron bands, passing over the bombard, and holding it down 
on its bed, again occur in this inventory; and we meet with iron caviclce and 
bletce. The caviclce are no doubt pins or bolts to fasten down the corigie, 
and correspond to the chevilles, so often already met with in Trench documents. 
The bletce we have been unable to trace. They were probably some small 
iron nails, pins, or washers, but the word is not to be met with in any 
glossary. 
The stores include “ salvavinelli ” 3 for filling the bombards. These were 
small measures or cups, and served the same purpose as the cazola z of iron 
for loading the bombards; probably to take the powder from the barrels or 
bags, or to pour it into the gun when the tassatoria were not used. 
• Secchio, a pail, pot, &c. The word pot is reproduced in various languages. At Rouen in 1338, 
we met with a “pot de fer in an English inventory (1372—4) occur guns with pootz or pots. 
Indeed, hearing this in mind, it is a matter for consideration whether we must refer the word 
cannon to canna a reed, when we have the English can , Fr. canne, Flem. Icann , Germ, kanne , each 
signifying a pot or measure to hold liquor, and when we compare the remarkable similarity of form, 
between a drinking mug, and the chamber with a handle of some of the early cannon. 
2 Salvia, a measure of wine. Ducange, Salvare vinnm. 
3 Cazola, cassola, a measure. Ducange,. 
