[644] “Cutting the Rigging,” Proposition iii.
[645] MS. in Royal Library, Berlin, q. in Romocki, i. 347.
[646] Cap. 48.
[647] See his Patent, No. 3032, 11th April 1807.
[648] We are told by Mr. Greener that “all the gunsmiths in England” laid claim to the invention of the cap: “The Gun and its Development,” 3rd ed., 1859, p. 110. How many of them, if any, established their claim I do not know; but it is absolutely certain that the notion of a copper cap struck Colonel Hawker in 1818. He gave a sketch of what he wanted to the celebrated Joe Manton, who made him some caps and adapted a gun for their use. “Instructions to Young Sportsmen,” by Col. Peter Hawker, 11th ed., 1859, p. 76.
[649] The concussion fuze was set in action by the shock of discharge; the percussion fuze by the shock of impact with the target.
[650] Reinaud and Favé, p. 180.
[651] Marcus Græcus, recipe 33.
[652] Hassan er-Rammah in Reinaud and Favé, p. 24.
[653] 1, 2, and 3 oz. rockets in Nye, p. 82.