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In this paper the author has endeavoured to place before his readers every 
trustworthy piece of information which it was in his power to obtain; and 
has omitted those numerous statements, which, after careful investigation, he 
has been unable to trace back to an authentic and reliable contemporary 
source. In the next paper on the subject he hopes to bring down the 
history of cannon to the close of the 14<th century, before which epoch great 
changes had occurred in these weapons. 
