[224] She also had six serpentines and a stone gun in the main and mizen tops. In the fifteenth century darts were flung from the tops; now most large vessels carried guns in them.
[225] Letters and Papers, i, 5721.
[226] Ibid. and Chapt. House Bks., vol. xiii. Eighty-four guns according to the latter.
[227] Low Latin petra, stone shot; the name subsequently defined a particular weight or shape, and remained in use although iron shot were fired from what was still called a stone cannon.
[228] Add. MSS. 22047, and State Papers of Henry VIII, (ed. 1830), xvii, 736, (old numbering).
[229] Letters and Papers i, 4379. The soldiers, sailors, and gunners are from Letters and Papers i, 3977, of April 1513. The soldiers were obtained and forwarded by various persons responsible, e.g., the 350 of the Gabriel Royal were made up of 100, being the retinue or immediate followers of Sir Thomas Courtenay and Sir William Cornwall, her captains, 100 from the Bishop of Exeter, 100 from Lord Arundel, and 50 from Lord Stourton.
[230] To defend archers in the field. This is the only instance, so far as is yet known, in which ships carried them as part of their equipment, and here probably it was only in connection with the invasion of France.
[231] Armour.
[232] It should be noticed that when these schedules were drawn up, the Henry was not yet launched, the figures therefore were purely conjectural and not requisites shown by experience to be necessary.
[233] Letters and Papers, i, 5276; the Peter Pomegranate. Quarrels or quarreaux were used with crossbows.