Explosives . s supposed that they introduced guns into England. In the following yearsthere are several references in the accounts of the Wardrobe of Edward III ofpayments on account of saltpetre. Thus Thomas de Roldeston. Clerk of theKings Private Wardrobe in the Tower of London, gives an account for fortyshillings for making powder and repairing various arms in the period 1344 to1347 : Eidem Thoma? super facturam pulveris per ingeniis et emendationediversarum armaturam XL sol/7 And an account was discovered by Gutt-manii delivered by John Cok. Clerk of the Kings Great Wardrobe for the date 1
Explosives . s supposed that they introduced guns into England. In the following yearsthere are several references in the accounts of the Wardrobe of Edward III ofpayments on account of saltpetre. Thus Thomas de Roldeston. Clerk of theKings Private Wardrobe in the Tower of London, gives an account for fortyshillings for making powder and repairing various arms in the period 1344 to1347 : Eidem Thoma? super facturam pulveris per ingeniis et emendationediversarum armaturam XL sol/7 And an account was discovered by Gutt-manii delivered by John Cok. Clerk of the Kings Great Wardrobe for the date 1 Guttmann, Manufacture of Explosives, 1895, vol. i., pp. 10-11. 2 O. Guttmann. Monumenta Pulveris Pyrii. s Libris, Histoire des Sciences mathematiqucs en Italic, vol. iv , p. -1ST ; P. et vol*vii., p. 33. 4 P. et S., vol. vii. p. 34. 5 See Guttmann. Monumenta Pulveris Pyrii. 1906.« Utescher, 8. S„ 1914, p. 101. 7 Guttmann. Manufacture of Explosives, vol. i., p. 13; Hunter, Archceologia, 1847YOl,
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