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[2] Vopiscus, Carus, Numerianus et Carinus, ch. xix.
[3] Claudianus, De consulatu Manlii Theodori, 325-330.
[4] Vanuzzio Biringuccio, Pyrotechnia.
[5] Strutts, Sports and Pastimes of the English People.
[6] De Frezier, Traité des feux d’artifice (1707 and 1747).
[7] Notes and Queries, series 5, vol. ix. p. 140, and series 8, vol. ii. pp. 145 and 254.
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[9] Hall’s Chronicles.