Catalogue description THE PRACTICE OF GUNNERY

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Details of MSS 280
Reference: MSS 280
Title: THE PRACTICE OF GUNNERY
Description:

Accounts of experiments and calculations for the practice of gunnery, 1597-1601. The author, who appears to have resided at Rainham, Kent, or Rainham, Essex may be Edmund Parker (d. 1602), whom Sir George Carew, lieutenant-general and subsequently master-general of the ordnance, described as 'the best cannonier that served her Majesty' (MS.624, f.153).

 

Old vellum covers.

 

101 ff.
Date: n.d
Held by: Lambeth Palace Library, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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