`The Furie of the Ordnance': Artillery in the English Civil Wars

Stephen Bull

doi:10.1017/9781846156410

`The Furie of the Ordnance'

Artillery in the English Civil Wars

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Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: March 2023
Print publication year:: 2008
Online ISBN:: 9781846156410
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781846156410

Series:: Armour and Weapons
Subjects:: History, Regional History after 1500

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Shows how new developments in guns and artillery played a decisive role in the English Civil War.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Illustrations
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Abbreviations
pp xi-xii

A Selective Chronology of the Civil Wars
pp xiii-xvi

Maps
pp xvii-xviii

Introduction
pp xix-xxiv

1 - Of Guns and Gunners
pp 1-37

2 - ‘England's Vulcan’: Artillery Supply under the Early Stuarts
pp 38-53

3 - A Scramble for Arms: The War of Ordnance Logistics
pp 54-80

4 - Artillery Fortifications
pp 81-99

5 - Artillery and Sieges
pp 100-136

6 - Battle
pp 137-160

Conclusions
pp 161-172

Appendix I: Ordnance Types 1634–1665
pp 173-174

Appendix II: Shot Finds
pp 175-177

Appendix III: The Parliamentarian Artillery Train of 1642 details extracted from PRO WO 528/131/2, PRO WO 55/387, and the ‘Catalogue of the Names’, BL E 83 (9)
pp 178-180

Appendix IV: The Establishment of the King's ‘Trayne of Artillery’ (Oxford Army), June 1643 extracted from Rawlinson Ms D 395 ff 208-9
pp 181-182

Appendix V: The Equipment and Personnel for One Gun and One Mortar, and Infantry Munitions, dispatched from Oxford in May 1643: PRO WO 55/458.65, ff 7–8
pp 183-184

Appendix VI: Guns captured by the King's army at Bristol, July 1643 as Listed in Rawlinson Ms D 395 ff 138–139, ‘Survey’ by Samuel Fawcett
pp 185-185

Appendix VII: The Artillery and Officers of the New Model Army Details extracted from PRO WO 47/1, ff 108–118; CSPD DIII, 1644, pp 499, 500, 517; House of Lords Journal, 10, p 71, and J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva, London, 1647, pp 329–330
pp 186-187

Appendix VIII: The Ideal Artillery Train according to BL Harleian Ms 6844, ‘A Short Treatise Concerning All Things Needfull in an Armye According to Modern Use’, c. 1660
pp 188-188

Appendix IX: The Masters and Officers of the Ordnance c. 1610–1660 extracted from Ordnance Quarter Books, DNB and State Papers
pp 189-191

Appendix X: Typical Firing Sequence for a Small to Medium Sized Gun using a crew of three: reconstructed from passages in various sections of William Eldred's Gunner's Glasse, London, 1646, and other manuals of the period 1620–1650
pp 192-194

Glossary
pp 195-200

Illustrations
pp 201-224

Bibliography
pp 225-244

Index
pp 245-247

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