Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and Progress

by H. W. L. Hime

[505] "Romaunt of the Rose," 4196, attributed to Chaucer.

[506] Original Parchemin parmi les titres scellés de Clairambault, xxv. fol. 1825; Bib. Nat., Paris (in Brackenbury, iv. 291).

[507] Estimated by Sir H. Brackenbury.

[508] Reinaud and Favé, p. 168.

[509] “Calendar, State Papers,” Dom. Ser., 1581-90, March 30, 1588.

[510] “Acts of the Privy Council,” New Ser., xvi. 25.

[511] Napoleon III., iii. 96.

[512] Wright and Halliwell’s Reliquiæ Antiquæ, London, 1841.

[513] Muratori, Rer. Ital. Script., xv., col. 182.

[514] Rymer’s Fœdera, vii. 187.