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THE PRACTICE OF GUNNERY
Catalogue reference: MSS 280
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- MSS 280
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- THE PRACTICE OF GUNNERY
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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.
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- Lambeth Palace Library
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- English
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THE PRACTICE OF GUNNERY