[385] Napoleon III., iii. 261.
[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.
[389] St. 65, ed. Robson.
[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.