[534] See p. 185.
[535] The early gunners suffered terribly from the bursting of their guns. James II. of Scotland was killed in 1460 by the bursting of a gun, and a bombard burst near Paris in 1479, killing fourteen men, and wounding fifteen or sixteen. Libre de Faits, Jean de Troyes, ed. Bouchon, p. 340. The Emperor Babar tells us of a gun that burst in India in 1527-8, killing eight men. Elliott’s “Hist. of India,” iv. 272. And so on.
[536] Brackenbury, v. 30.
[537] Muratori, Rer. Ital. Script., xvii., col. 558.
[538] R. Norton, “The Gunner,” &c., London, 1628, p. 158.
[539] Entwickelung des Kriegswesens, Breslau, 1886, iii. 266.
[540] Quellen zur Geschichte des Feuerwaffen, 1872, A, viii., xix.
[541] Ducas, Hist. Byzant., Bonn, 1831, p. 211.
[542] Sabellicus, Hist. Venet., Dec. iii., lib. 10 (Jähns).
[543] Clarendon’s “Hist. of the Great Rebellion,” p. 522. Boillot calls orgues “barriquades,” Modelles Artifices de feu, &c., Chaumont, 1598, p. 189.