from Appendices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2020
Purchased in diverse locations in England and France by command of the king for his aforesaid war within the time of the accounts (1430–2):
• Three large guns of iron, of which one called Henry, one called Hampton and one called Crown
• Sixteen guns of iron called fowlers, with thirty-three moveable chambers, not fixed or stocked
• Four guns of bronze called fowlers, with eight moveable chambers, not fixed or stocked
• 2,128lbs of iron worked
• 6,000lbs of iron not worked
• Twenty chaulders of sea coal
• Four large carts of iron and wood for moving guns, large guns and other things, each with one pair of wheels called trokels
• Four long carts of iron and wood made for use in the country of Picardy
• 1,550 gunstones
• Fifty chains
• Forty staples
• Forty pairs of hooks
• Forty plates of iron for moving oxen
• Eighty collars
• Twenty-five double oxbows containing 300 pieces
• 100 ‘pykeys’
• Fifty axes
• 200 shovels
• 200 spades
• Forty-two ‘scoops’
• Twelve ‘crowes’ of iron
• One axle beam of iron
• Seven weights of lead
• 996 hammers of lead
• Seven big pieces of lead weighing 3,525lbs
• One pair of bellows for smiths
• 800 shafts called spear shafts
• 710 lance heads
• 391 chests for arrows and bows
• 1,204lbs of gunpowder
• 5,164lbs of saltpetre liquid not dry or pestled in powder
• 5,200lbs of sulphur rough not dry in powder
• 280lbs of charcoal
• One stock to hold saltpetre, sulphur and charcoal
• 100 long pavises
• Five short pavises
• Three cords of hemp called hankers
• Eighteen stocks of wood and iron not bound for guns called fowlers
• Forty-two empty vessels
• Eight hogsheads
• Fourteen barrels
• Six ‘wassell’ of metal
• Three saddles called ‘lymour’ saddles
• Three cruppers for ‘lymour’ saddles
• Three backs (dosers) for the same
• Two collars of rope for cart horses
• Four ‘crebis of crunbz’ for great ordnance
£2,072 4s. 8½d.
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