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MINUTES OF PBOCEEDINGS OF 
Again, 
“ pro eisdem et aliis rebus infrascriptis ducendis usque Caleis ad Begem provisas, 
et eciam portagio x, gunn’ cum telar’, ix coffrarum cum armaturis, vj peciarum 
plumbi, v. barellorum pulveris, et c. magnorum pelot’ plumbi pro eisdem gunn’ 
. &c. &c. 
Again, 
“ per breve Begis de privato sigillo datum primo die Septembris predicto anno 
xx°. per quod Bex mandavit eidem custodi quod omnia ingenia etgunn’ cum eorum 
apparatu in Turri Begis predicta et alia diversa,.pellot’, barellos, et salpetre, 
et pulver’, et omnimodas res alia et ingenia et gunn’ illis spectantes eskippari. 
&c. &c.” 
Again, “ Ingenia et Instrumenta Fabrorum et Balistariorum.^ 
“ Idem reddit compotum de ij ingeniis cum apparatu, x. gunnis cum telar’ undeij 
gross’, v. parvis barellis cum salpetre, sulphure vivo et alio pulvere pro dictis 
gunnis, lxxiij. pellot’ plumbi grossis, xxxj. parvis pellot’, vj peciis plumbi.Et 
missis Begi usque Calesiam, inter alias armaturas et res Begis ibidem missas per 
Clementem Atte Merke valettum camere sue, ij ingeniis cum apparatu, x. gunnu 
cum telar’, quorum ij gross’, v. parvis barellis cum salpetre et sulphure vivo, 
lxxiij pellot’ plumbi grossis, xxxj. parvis pellot’, et vj. peciis plumbi pro gunnis 
predictis, per duo brevia Begis, quorum j. datum primo die Septembris, et aliud. 
secundo die Septembris, anno xx°,” See. Sec. 
We will sum up briefly and in chronological order the facts contained in 
the above extracts :— 
“ By the King’s writ, dated 
1345, 1st Feb. Guns with arrows and shot repaired and shipped for 
passage. 
1346, 4th March. Guns with shot and powder for the same guns to be 
repaired and shipped. 
„ 4th March. 10 guns with telar* t six pieces of lead, 5 barrels of 
powder, 100 large leaden shot for the same guns. 
„ 10th May. 912 lb. saltpetre, 8861b. sulphur, purchased. 
„ 1st Sept. All engines and guns in the tower to be shipped: shot, 
barrels, saltpetre and powder, and guns. 
„ 1st and 2nd Sept. 10 guns with telar’, two of which are large; 5 
barrels with saltpetre and sulphur and other powder for the said 
guns; 73 large leaden shot; 31 small shot; 6 pieces of lead for 
the same guns, were sent to Calais. 
„ 25th Nov. 750 lb. saltpetre, 3101b. sulphur, purchased. 
1347, 15th Sept. 2021 lb. saltpetre, 466 lb. sulphur, purchased. 
Erom this we may conjecture that the orders of the 4th March and 1st 
February 1346, were preliminary to the equipment to the expedition to France, 
when 10 guns were shipped, with 10 large leaden shot and half a barrel of 
powder for each gun, and 6 pieces of lead to make extra shot with. Now, 
if these pieces of lead would each make only sixteen shot, we might have 
altogether 20 shot for each gun, and there were probably, as we gather from 
the writ of 1st February, arrows also for the guns; how small then must 
