The antiquities of England and Wales . ana hoc eft, minor machina Cange.—Interia groffor petraria, mittit ab intus affidue lapides, mangoncllufque minores. 7 Vbilip. De Mezeray, in his Trfeatife on Ancient Sieges, fays, the greateft range of a man-gonel did not exceed five ftadia, each ftadia confiftingof 125 geometrical paces of five feet, making inthe whole 1041 yards and i feet. He fuppofes mangona to be a generical word for an engine ufed forthrowing ftones or darts. (w) Matafunda. Machina bellica, qua lapides in hoftes ejaculabantur. Du Cange.—Jaciebantfi quidem
The antiquities of England and Wales . ana hoc eft, minor machina Cange.—Interia groffor petraria, mittit ab intus affidue lapides, mangoncllufque minores. 7 Vbilip. De Mezeray, in his Trfeatife on Ancient Sieges, fays, the greateft range of a man-gonel did not exceed five ftadia, each ftadia confiftingof 125 geometrical paces of five feet, making inthe whole 1041 yards and i feet. He fuppofes mangona to be a generical word for an engine ufed forthrowing ftones or darts. (w) Matafunda. Machina bellica, qua lapides in hoftes ejaculabantur. Du Cange.—Jaciebantfi quidem hoftes fuper noftros creberrimos lapides cum duobus trabuchetis, mangonello & pluribuimatafundi. Monachus Valis Sarnai in Hift. Albigenft, c 86.—Some derive its name from funda &maftare, fometimes written matare; i. e. a murdering fling. (x) Trebuchetum, trabuchetum. Catapultae fpecies, feu machina grandior ad projiciendoslapides, & concutiendos urbium obfefTarum muros. Du Cange. Per feptera trebucheta ordinata, qu». PREFACE. 17 throwing flones, and other great mafies, and probably of thefame mechanifm, but differently called, according to the magni-tude of the weights they projefled, as was the cafe in our ancientartillery, where, according to their caliber, the pieces were filled,cannon, demicannon, calverin, faker, robinet, falcon and efpringal (y) threw large darts, called muchetta^, fometimes,infread of feathers, winged with brafs. Of the vaft force of thefe machines, (z) furprifmg flories arerelated. No wall, however thick, was able to refift their ftroke jand in the field, they fwept away the deepeft files of armed them were thrown not only large millflones, but fometimesthe carcafes of dead horfes, and even living men. The formeraccording to Froiffart, (a) was pradlifed by John duk« of Nor- qu3e tarn de die, qviam de nofle, in caftrum capacii projicere non cedabant. Malt. Paris, an. 1146.———Dun tralukiet fit trabukier, mult grant partie d
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