Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- A Selective Chronology of the Civil Wars
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 Of Guns and Gunners
- 2 ‘England's Vulcan’: Artillery Supply under the Early Stuarts
- 3 A Scramble for Arms: The War of Ordnance Logistics
- 4 Artillery Fortifications
- 5 Artillery and Sieges
- 6 Battle
- Conclusions
- Appendix I: Ordnance Types 1634–1665
- Appendix II: Shot Finds
- Appendix III: The Parliamentarian Artillery Train of 1642 details extracted from PRO WO 528/131/2, PRO WO 55/387, and the ‘Catalogue of the Names’, BL E 83 (9)
- Appendix IV: The Establishment of the King's ‘Trayne of Artillery’ (Oxford Army), June 1643 extracted from Rawlinson Ms D 395 ff 208-9
- Appendix V: The Equipment and Personnel for One Gun and One Mortar, and Infantry Munitions, dispatched from Oxford in May 1643: PRO WO 55/458.65, ff 7–8
- Appendix VI: Guns captured by the King's army at Bristol, July 1643 as Listed in Rawlinson Ms D 395 ff 138–139, ‘Survey’ by Samuel Fawcett
- Appendix VII: The Artillery and Officers of the New Model Army Details extracted from PRO WO 47/1, ff 108–118; CSPD DIII, 1644, pp 499, 500, 517; House of Lords Journal, 10, p 71, and J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva, London, 1647, pp 329–330
- Appendix VIII: The Ideal Artillery Train according to BL Harleian Ms 6844, ‘A Short Treatise Concerning All Things Needfull in an Armye According to Modern Use’, c. 1660
- Appendix IX: The Masters and Officers of the Ordnance c. 1610–1660 extracted from Ordnance Quarter Books, DNB and State Papers
- Appendix X: Typical Firing Sequence for a Small to Medium Sized Gun using a crew of three: reconstructed from passages in various sections of William Eldred's Gunner's Glasse, London, 1646, and other manuals of the period 1620–1650
- Glossary
- Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix III: The Parliamentarian Artillery Train of 1642 details extracted from PRO WO 528/131/2, PRO WO 55/387, and the ‘Catalogue of the Names’, BL E 83 (9)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- A Selective Chronology of the Civil Wars
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 Of Guns and Gunners
- 2 ‘England's Vulcan’: Artillery Supply under the Early Stuarts
- 3 A Scramble for Arms: The War of Ordnance Logistics
- 4 Artillery Fortifications
- 5 Artillery and Sieges
- 6 Battle
- Conclusions
- Appendix I: Ordnance Types 1634–1665
- Appendix II: Shot Finds
- Appendix III: The Parliamentarian Artillery Train of 1642 details extracted from PRO WO 528/131/2, PRO WO 55/387, and the ‘Catalogue of the Names’, BL E 83 (9)
- Appendix IV: The Establishment of the King's ‘Trayne of Artillery’ (Oxford Army), June 1643 extracted from Rawlinson Ms D 395 ff 208-9
- Appendix V: The Equipment and Personnel for One Gun and One Mortar, and Infantry Munitions, dispatched from Oxford in May 1643: PRO WO 55/458.65, ff 7–8
- Appendix VI: Guns captured by the King's army at Bristol, July 1643 as Listed in Rawlinson Ms D 395 ff 138–139, ‘Survey’ by Samuel Fawcett
- Appendix VII: The Artillery and Officers of the New Model Army Details extracted from PRO WO 47/1, ff 108–118; CSPD DIII, 1644, pp 499, 500, 517; House of Lords Journal, 10, p 71, and J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva, London, 1647, pp 329–330
- Appendix VIII: The Ideal Artillery Train according to BL Harleian Ms 6844, ‘A Short Treatise Concerning All Things Needfull in an Armye According to Modern Use’, c. 1660
- Appendix IX: The Masters and Officers of the Ordnance c. 1610–1660 extracted from Ordnance Quarter Books, DNB and State Papers
- Appendix X: Typical Firing Sequence for a Small to Medium Sized Gun using a crew of three: reconstructed from passages in various sections of William Eldred's Gunner's Glasse, London, 1646, and other manuals of the period 1620–1650
- Glossary
- Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
‘An Account of Divers Necessary Provisions Materials and Instruments of War Bought of Several Persons for the Traine of Artillerye Under the Command of his Excellency the Earle of Essex Lord Generall of the Armies Imployed for the Defence of the Protestant Religion the safetie of his Majesty's Person and of the Parliament the Preservation of the Laws Liberties & Peece of the Kingdom and Protection of his Majesty's subjects from Violence and Oppression.’
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- `The Furie of the Ordnance'Artillery in the English Civil Wars, pp. 178 - 180Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2008