Note 42 — Chapter II · THE SMOOTH-BORE GUN

Sir Harry Nicolas, in his History of the Royal Navy, attributes the documents to the reign of Edward III: an error of more than seventy years. The mistake is exposed by a writer in Vol. XXVI of The English Historical Review, in an article on “Firearms in England in the Fourteenth Century.” The writer also gives the English records relating to the use of firearms at Cressy.