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and two curtails, all of brafs ; with two culverins, fourteen demi- cuherins, four fakers, and one mynion, all of caft-iron." Curtails are not dcfcribed by Sir William Monfon, but are men- tioned in Lodge's Illustrations of Britim Hiftory ut fupra [b] " Curtowes of metall, with all their apparell. I." " 6. The Antelope, of four cuhcr'ms, five demi- culver ins, (outfakerr, one falcon, two portpeece-halls[c, four portpeece chambers, two fowler- halls, four fowler-chambers, all of brafs ; w r ith eight demi-cuherims and fourjakers of caft-iron." Portpieces are not defcribed by Sir William Monfon, but are mentioned in Mr. Topham's Historical Defcription of a Second Antient Picture in Windfor Caftle. Archaeologia, Vol. VI. p. 190. (( Porte pieces of Irone" with " Shotte for porte pieces'* Alfo Ibid. p. 316, as Furniture of the Harry Grace de Dieu. For the meaning of the word " Chambers[d' ufed here, fee Mr. King's [&] In an original MS. account of Ordnance, &c. I Ed. VI. in the Archives of this Society, in the account of Calis, is the following article: " Shott of yrone for|-r^f Curtowes two hundred ; as are the fubfequent in the account of Hurft Caftle, " Curtail Cannon of brafle oone." " Curtail Cannon Shot ofjTx ynches and a quarter thirty-five.'* The following, Ibid, is in the account of Weft Cowes Caftle ; " Cur toll Cannon of brajfe furnyfhed, oone. The fame entry occurs in the account of Yarmouth Gallic.. In the account of Eaft Tilbury Bulwark, Eflex, we read of " Curtail Sacres ofyron mounted uppon cariage with fhodde vvheks." [c] In an original MS. containing an account of Ordnance, &c. i Ed. VI. in the Ar- chives of this Society, in the account of thofe in-Wark Caftle,. in Northumberland, is. the following article : " Halls of aporte pece difmounted, oone.'* [d~ In " England's Elizabeth by Heywood, 1632," p. 186. is the following paf- .fage, wherein the word " Chambers" {lands alone for a piece of ordnance.