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A08347	The gunner shevving the vvhole practise of artillerie: vvith all the appurtenances therevnto belonging. Together with the making of extra-ordinary artificiall fireworkes, as well for pleasure and triumphes, as for warre and seruice. VVritten by Robert Norton, one of his Maiesties gunners and enginiers.	Norton, Robert, d. 1635.; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, engraver.	1628 (1628)	STC 18673; ESTC S115254	149,353	214

with the materialls of Powder and Ordnance Others affirme that a Monke of Germany named Barthold Sheuuart otherwise called the Blacke Vpon a cettatne time not thinking vpon Powder or Ordnance in the yeere of our Lord 1300 hauing in his Morter a mixture of Sulpher and Niter for another vse by chance a cole of fire falling into the same caused it so to rarifie and blow it selfe away that hee beeing therewith astonished searched into the cause therof vpon further tryalls he found that the hot and dry qualities of the Sulpher being with coale and moysture combined and wrought together with the cold and moyst qualities of the Nyter was apt by force to be sodainly vnlosed with great rarefaction wherby by little and little he brought that vnhappy inuention of Gun-powder and Gunnes to perfection to make vse thereof in Warres which he reuealing in short space made it common Beraldus saith that at the first inuention of Ordnance they were all called by the name of Bombards a word compounded of the verbes Bombe which signifieth to Sound and of Ardco to burne and they that vsed them they called Bombardiers which name is yet partly retained After which as Bertholdus saith they were called Turacio and Turrafragi of the breaking downe of Towers and Wals and by Iohn de monte Regio they were called Tormenti their Shot Sphara tormentaria and the Gunners Magistri tormentorum But now Ordnance are eyther named at the will of the inuentors either according to his own name as the Canon was or by the names of birds and beasts of prey for their swiftnes or their cruelty as the Faulconet Faulcon Saker and Culuering c. for swiftnesse of flying as the Basiliske Serpentine Aspike Dragon Syrene c. for cruelty whoseswiftnes report and terriblenes is properly and wittily expressed by the Latin Poet Forcastorius as followeth Continue cana terrificis horentia bombis Aera flamifferum tormenta imitantia fulmen Corripiunt Vulcane tum dum Theutonas armas Inventum dum tela Iouis mortalibus afers Nec Mora Signantes certam sibi quisque volucrens Inclusum salucrum cineres sulphurque nitrumque Materiam accendunt Seruatain veste fauilla Fomite correpta diffusa repente furit vis Ignea circumsepta Simulque cita obice rupto Intrusam impellit glander volat illaper auras Stridula et exanimes passim per Prata iacebunt Deiectae volucres magno micat ignibus Aer Cum Tonitru quo Silua omnes Ripaque recurua Et percussa imo sonuerunt aequora fundo Imitated by the Author in English thus What Horrid roares proceed from Bombards soules By ayre made fire Torments of lightning flashes From earth exhald with vapours Vulcan howles For that now on earth men can make thunder dashes Ingenious Art now Aping Natures worke Giues also name of birds and beasts of pray To Gunnes wherein maine cruelty doth lurke When powdred Peter Coles and Napths assay To force the Sphaericke shot t'outflye Report And by Report to make the Welkin roare And Siluan cauernes Echoes lowd retort Batter Sinke Kill yet ayming mischiefes more For mercilesse they 'l spare nor high nor low Poore fatherlesse nor widdowes will they know The deuills birds I thinke were fitter names To call them by that spit such cruell flames CHAP. III. Where Ordnance were first vsed in these parts PAulus Interianus the Ligurian Historiographer a graue and authentick Author writeth that in the yeare of our Lord 1366. when the Warres were hot betweene the Venetians and the Genoweses certaine Germaines presented two Peeces of Iron Ordnance wrought by hand vnto the Seignory of Venice with some prouision of Powder and Leaden Shot who receiued them very thankfully especially seeing how that diabollicall vnknowne furie had not onely exceedingly feared but also slaine so many of their Enemies that thereby they preuailed and obtained a wished victory against their aduersaries and accordingly got their owne deseignes And Paulus Iouius in his third booke reporteth that the first Field Ordnance that were vsed in Italy were in the Warres betweene the Bannitoes of Florence and the house of Medices brought by Bartholmeo Coglioni and that the Prince of Ferrara hauing receiued a hurt in his foote by a Shott from one of those small Peeces mounted vpon wheeles as hee noteth The Prince earnestly complained that Coglioni had behaued himselfe that day very maliciously against him by vsing supernaturall Barbarisme in making such horrible and vnaccustomed Tempests to beat and spoyle his Men with who had none other Weapons to defend themselues but onely Swords and Speares Laonicus Chalon in his fifth booke reporteth that Mahomet the great Turke at the Siege of Constantinople in the yeare of our Lord 1419 planted against it one peece of Ordnance that he discharged seuen times in one day which conueyed a bullet of 300 pound waight and made the ground tremble a furlong round about it at the discharge with the report thereof And he further affirmeth that the Grecians answered him againe with Peeces that shot bullets of 150 pound waight Pollider Virgill in his fifth booke of the English History writeth that in the yeere of our Lord 1425 in the beginning of the reigne of the French King Charles the seauenth the English hauing besiedged the Towne of Mantz so battered the walles thereof that they soone fell to the ground And Munster in his second Volume writeth that the Duke de Barre 1431 was defeated by the Count de Vademont by meanes of the Ordnance that he vsed both Canon and Culuering which was a matter then so new and rare that the Count himselfe at the shooting them off fell alwayes on his face to the ground for feare Ordnance were also vsed by the Almaines about the Coast of Denmarke in the yeare 1434. Paulus Iouius and Guichardine relate that Charles the eighth of France hauing vndertaken the Conquest of Naples vsed Ordnance both in the Planes and vpon the tops of high mountaines And the Italians that descrbed his returne said that with his souldiers he drew them vp ouer the tops of the Appenyne Mountaines and so from place to place with admirable courage where by reason of the steepnesse and roughnesse of the place horses and cattell could not bee imployed to draw them but his horsemen did then carry the Shot other Munitions to them Pierrier Steinhuchsen Cap. 3. Abatte mur. Maurbrecher Cap. 4. Pierrier ou Bombarde Steinbuchse Eschelle a mire Qiel leittern Cap. 5. Tract 2. Cap. 6. Tract de l'espaulle auec ses troniers et explanades Figur der schutren mitt ihren zangen vnd britschen belonging each of them alittle Camello Vitelli is said to haue inuented the Pistols and small Hand-gunues for horsemen whereby Ferdinand of Aragon discomfited the French and Almaines Muskets were inuented for footemen and first vsed at the Siege of Rhege in 1521 since which time their inuentions haue been so infinitely varied as no man can fully expresse which now shall suffice me and I hope