Excerpt from The Lancashire Lieutenancy Under the Tudors and Stuarts, Vol. 2: The Civil and Military Government of the County, as Illustrated by a Series of Royal and Other Letters, Orders of the Privy Council, the Lord Lieutenant, and Other Authorities, &C., &C V 300 gunners artillery men) is a very large levy upon a single county. In the reigns of the earlier Tudors all the ordnance was purchased abroad, and both Henry VII. And Henry VIII. Had Flemish gunners to teach the art. Notwithstanding this, Gross states that in the sixteenth century the ordnance rarely made more than one discharge, the enemy's cavalry being able to charge the gunners before they could load them again. Aliens were employed in I 54 3 in casting great brass ordnance, though an English or Welsh man named John Owen was said to have cast ordnance in I 5 z I For a notice of the ordnance temp. Elisabeth see the Introduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.