Sources and Further Reading

Bailey, S. B., 1991, Information relating to the operation of the early cast-iron gun industry from a manuscript account book in the collection of the Royal Armouries, Journal of the Ordnance Society, vol. 3, 11-23

Biringuccio, Vannoccio, 1540, The Pirotechnia, trans. from De la Pirotechnia Libri X,  Roffinello per Curzio Navo, Venezia

Blackmore, H.L., 1976, The Armouries of the Tower of London, vol.I, HMSO, London

Bound, M., 1998, British sea power: ships, armament, strategy and tactics, in Excavating Ships of War, (ed. M. Bound), International Maritime Archaeology Series, vol. 2, 8-30

Bourne, W., 1587, The Art of Shooting in Great Ordnance, London

Caruana, A. B., 1994, The History of English Sea Ordnance, 1523-1875, Jean Boudriot Publications

Cleere, H. and Crossley, D., 1985, The Iron Industry of the Weald, Leicester

Douglas, H., 1820, A Treatise on Naval Gunnery 1855, London, repub. 1982 Conway Maritime Press, London

Eldred, W., 1646, The Gunner’s Glass, London

Ffoulkes, C., 1969, The Gun-founders of England, Arms and Armour Press, London

Fontana, Niccolo, 1588, The Colloquies of Tartaglia, London, with commentary from the Italian by Cyprian Lucar.

Kennard, A. N., 1986, Gunfounding and Gunfounders, Arms and Armour Press, London

Loades, D., 1992, The Tudor Navy, An administrative, political and military history, Sholar Press, Aldershot.

Mattingly, G., I959, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Jonathan Cape, London

Norton, R., 1628, The Gunner

Norton, R., 1643, The Gunner’s Dialogue, London

Rimer, G., Bound, M. and Chapman, D., 2001, in A Ship Cast Away About Alderney, (J. Monaghan and M. Bound eds.), Guernsey, 47 – 59. Some of the information contained in this section can now be considered flawed, particularly the contents of page 47.

Padfield, P., 1973, Guns at Sea, London