. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . SlIIIMiALD,{IkiUehni Libmry, ). AM) {DoiUeki/t Library, Ox/onl.) ,248 THE BLACK DEATH, AND AFTEBWABDS. 11348 that Sir John Cliandos was nccustdiriril to take aboutcannons and spriugalds witli liis liost, which implies thatthe usage had come liahitnal, I!nt these were, as before,for siege work; it is not till the tifteenth eentury that wefind them emplojed in the field ; we b
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . SlIIIMiALD,{IkiUehni Libmry, ). AM) {DoiUeki/t Library, Ox/onl.) ,248 THE BLACK DEATH, AND AFTEBWABDS. 11348 that Sir John Cliandos was nccustdiriril to take aboutcannons and spriugalds witli liis liost, which implies thatthe usage had come liahitnal, I!nt these were, as before,for siege work; it is not till the tifteenth eentury that wefind them emplojed in the field ; we believe that we are notwrung in stating that Northamptnn was the first English battlewhere the}- were so used by native generals, and Formigny thefirst where they were used against us. In all the chief fightsof that century—Aginoourt, ^erne^il. Cravant, Patay, St. Albans,Towton, we find none. At Chatillon and Foimigny the Frenchused them to some effect; in the Wars of the Hoses the}^ werebriiught into use at Northampton—where their discharge wasentirely frustrated by the rain—Barnet and Tewkesburj^but hada decisive effect on none of these battles. The only one amongthose which we have cited where they reall)- influen
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