[382] “The Book of Archery,” London, 1840, Pl. xvii., No. 5.
[383] “The Cross-bow,” 1903, fig. 84, p. 129.
[384] Rupert’s Diary, in Warburton, “Prince Rupert,” iii. 163.
[386] Ὀστράκινα σκεύη—earthenware vessels. J. Cameniata, p. 527.
[387] Reinaud and Favé, in _Jour. Asiatique_, 1849.
[388] Froissart’s “Chronicles,” ed. Bouchon; ii., ch. 181, p. 235.
[390] According to Sir Walter Scott, the Scotch in the beginning of the last century still called crow’s-feet _calthrops_, a word which goes back to “Piers Plowman,” cir. 1393:—“The Rev. Dr. Heavysterne from the Low Countries sustained much injury by sitting down suddenly and incautiously on three ancient calthrops” (“Antiquary,” ch. iii.).
[391] “Fictili globo incendiarii pulveris.”—P. Jovii, _Hist. sui Temp._, i., c. 18.
[392] _Mém. de Castelnau_, ed. Bouchon; xiii., p. 154.
[393] _Mém. de Messire du Bellay_, ed. Bouchon, vii., p. 632.
[394] Fol. 41. These brazen grenades of Whitehorne’s correspond to the “Kobber-Granater” shown in the books of the Copenhagen Arsenal at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Blom’s _Kristian d. IV.’s Artilleri_, pp. 268-69.
[396] _Danduli Chronicon_, Muratori, xii. 448, in Elliot, vi. 469.
[399] In the war of Chiozza. During the attack on the Torre della Bebbe, “furono tirate molte rochette.”—Muratori, xv. 769.
[400] “Ecce quidam adolescens ... quid Græcus ignis potest experiri vellet ... fusum sulphure ignitum ... ad quamdam domum, stipula et stramine coopertam, maximo impetu traxit. Iterum, alium et alium transjecit. Acriori incendio edes accense concremantur.”—_Œuvres de R. Blondel_, pub. by “Soc. de l’Hist. de Normandie,” ii. 74. Little is known of Blondel’s life, but he was alive in the year 1460. I believe _fusus_ to be the _fusée de feu_ of the _Livre de Canonerie_, Paris, 1561 (Reinaud and Favé, p. 140), and this incendiary was not a rocket.
[401] “Hist. of Tipu Sultan,” by Husain Kirmani, trans. by Col. Miles, p. 145.
[402] “Hist, of Tipu Sultan,” by Husain Kirmani, p. 109.
[403] “Narrative of the Conquest of Mysore,” Hull, 1804, p. 50.
[404] “Narrative of the Campaign with Tippoo Sultan,” London, 1793, p. 209.
[405] “Narrative of the Conquest of Mysore,” p. 52. Their charge was 1 lb. of powder, and their range about 1000 yards. “Description of Indian and Oriental Armour,” by Lord Egerton of Tatton, 1896, p. 32.