. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . X. PISTOL SHIELDS {V, 43). circular in form, of wood, faced with steel and painted dull red, brown andblack, and have pistols projecting through the centre and small gratings abovefor sighting. They are lined with cloth. The pistol is breech-loading,with a metal chamber, which is secured by a box-like arrangement,hinged to secure it when loaded. It is discharged by a match fixedin a holder, which is depressed by the hand on to the pan. These are theonly existing examples of matchlock pistols. Hentzner mentions suchpistols, with f
. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . X. PISTOL SHIELDS {V, 43). circular in form, of wood, faced with steel and painted dull red, brown andblack, and have pistols projecting through the centre and small gratings abovefor sighting. They are lined with cloth. The pistol is breech-loading,with a metal chamber, which is secured by a box-like arrangement,hinged to secure it when loaded. It is discharged by a match fixedin a holder, which is depressed by the hand on to the pan. These are theonly existing examples of matchlock pistols. Hentzner mentions suchpistols, with four chambers, in his account of the Tower (Page 65 of thepresent work). Diameter, lylin. In the Inventory of 1547 there were forty of these targets in store, ofwhich one is described as with xxti little gonnes and one wt iiijgonnes. 1542. Item a targette of Steele wt. a gonne lacking, part oj the Steele fringedwith grene silke and lyned with grene velat. 1547. Targettes steiled wt gonnes xxxv. 1676. Old Targettes of Iron with Pistolls 66Shield of Wood wth Pistoll
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