[6] See Captain C.R. Day, Descript. Catalogue (London, 1891), pp. 168-169, and pl. xi. fig. D.
[7] Barthol. Trevisa, De Propr. Rebus, xviii., xv., 1495, 774.
[8] King Alisaunder, 5112 and 5282.
[9] Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française du IXe an XVe siècle.
[10] De re militari, bk. iii. ch. v.
[11] See Catal. descriptif du musée instrumental du conservatoire de Bruxelles, vol. i. (Ghent, 1880), p. 331. There are, in the department of Greek and Roman antiquities at the British Museum, two bronze Etruscan cornua, No. 2734, resembling the hunting horns of the middle ages and bent in a semicircular shape. They measure from end to end respectively 2 ft. 1 in. and 2 ft. 2 in.
[12] Maj. J.H.L. Archer, The British Army Records (London, 1888), p. 402.
[13] For the use of the drum in the 16th century, see Sir John Smyth, Instructions and Observations for all Chieftaines, Captaines, &c. (London, 1595), pp. 158-159.
[14] See Richard Cannon, Historical Records of the regiment (London, 1848), p. 3.
[15] See H.G. Farmer, Memoirs of the Royal Artillery Band (London, 1904), p. 183.