10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HAILSHOT»
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1
The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War Through ...
The Mary Rose carried the only four known hailshot pieces (figure 5.36), while
twenty are listed. These guns have been identified by their size within the iron
ordnance listing, and by the presence of iron dice (listed as "iron dice for hailshot"
in ...
Brett D. Steele, Tamera Dorland, 2005
2
To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right
Hailshot, forbidden since 1549 to all but a few licenced persons, figured
prominently in crimes against persons. Thus a yeoman from Nottinghamshire
was charged with shooting a man in the foot with hailshot, and a farmer of that
county was ...
3
The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Seven ...
For the places of the same body are always equal. But that wheat, sand, hailshot,
or loose stones should make a firm arch, is not credible. CH AP. VIII. 'fie—d Of
gravity and gravitation. A. The DECAMERON PHYSIOLOGICUM.' 141.
Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer, 1845
Edward VI. decreed that no one under the degree of a baron should shoot with a
handgun in any city or town, at any fowl or with any hailshot, in pain of a fine of
101. and three months' imprisonment, with the exception of those persons ...
Eneas Sweetland Dallas, 1862
5
Tudor Sea Power: The Foundation of Greatness
Crew numbers varied from sixty in the larger pinnaces to just thirty in little Hare,
which was armed with one saker, twelve iron bases, four hailshot pieces and six
handguns, indicating that her task was to support a larger ship by enfillade fire ...
6
Naval guns: 500 years of ship and coastal artillery
Dutch hailshot gun. (Koninklijk Nederlands Legeren Wapenmuseum Delft. Inv.
No. KNLWM 013334) Dutch hailshot gun, cl480 This chamber piece, known as a
hailshot gun, is typical of the armament of ships in the 15th and 16th centuries, ...
7
Greene's Arcadia; Or, Menaphon: Camilla's Alarum to Slumber ...
Look not in my face, but level at my heart by this that thou seest :” and therewith
he let drive at him with such pebble-stones as he had in his hat, insomuch that
RoMANIo was driven to his heels, to shun this sudden hailshot, and
EURILoCHUs ...
8
Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons
Then Drake himself taking the gun, which Oliver had so unsuccessfully attempted
to make use of, discharged it at the Indian that first began the fray and had killed
the gunner, aiming it so happily, that the hailshot, with which it was loaded, tore ...
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby, 1825
9
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and ...
them, and I being on land, one of them came downe the hill right against me: my
piece was charged with hailshot and a bullet: I discharged my piece and shot him
in the necke; he roared a litle, and tooke the water straight, making small ...
10
Vollständiges Wörterbuch Der Englischen Sprache Für Die ...
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Bag; also a Sack with rough - geon nd 01* bruised Barley or Piece-MeaLaGrdats-
Sack. Schmthohrer, ber, an Anger with a Hook at the End, anAuger for Kennels ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HAILSHOT»
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A historic year for Ballina Cup
The winner was a horse called Poor Tom carrying the weight of seven stone 11 pounds (49.5kg) with Hailshot second and Woodburn third. «Northern Star, Jun 14»