[714] State Papers, Dom., cvi, 14.

[715] Ibid., cclxxv, 40.

[716] Ibid., cclvii, 108.

[717] Lansd. MSS., 65, f. 94.

[718] State Papers, Dom., ccxliv, 116.

[719] Ibid., xcv, 22, 69.

[720] Acts of the Privy Council, 19th June 1574.

[721] State Papers, Dom., xxi, 56. Corn, or large grain, powder was used for small arms; serpentine for the heavy guns, but the latter was going out of use at sea.

[722] State Papers, Dom., ccxviii, 35.

[723] Ibid., lxxiv, 3.