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Subject: Gunpowder industry

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England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). By the King a proclamation prohibiting the importation of forraine gun-powder, and that His Maiesties subiects may be constantly supplied out of His Maiesties store-houses

Creator
England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
Date
1636
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
FILM Acc. 626; For access, follow the Linked Resources hyperlink
Caption
Early English books, 1475-1640
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). By the King, a proclamation for the maintenance and encrease of the mines of saltpeter, and the true making of gunpowder, and reforming abuses concerning the same

Creator
England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
Date
M. DC. XXV [1625]
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
FILM Acc. 626; For access, follow the Linked Resources hyperlink
Caption
Early English books, 1475-1640
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). By the King. A proclamation for the maintaining and increase of the mines of saltpeter, and the true making and working of saltpeter and gunpowder, and reforming of all abuses concerning the same

Creator
England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
Date
M. DC. XXVII. [1627]
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
STC 8863
Caption
Imprinted at London : By Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, printers to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, M. DC. XXVII. [1627]
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Stubbe, Henry. Legends no histories: or, A specimen of some animadversions upon the History of the Royal Society. : Wherein, besides the several errors against common literature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-powder are detected, and rectified: whereunto are added two discourses, one of Pietro Sardi, and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that subject. Translated out of Italian. With a brief account of those passages of the authors life, which the virtuosi intended most to censure, and expatiate upon: written to save them the trouble of doing any thing besides defending themselves. Together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c. By Henry Stubbe, physician at Warwick

Creator
Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676
Date
1670
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
S6053
Caption
Printed at London : And are to be sold by the book-sellers there, 1670
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Boillot, Joseph. Modelles artifices de feu et diuers instrume[n]s de guerre : auec les moye[n]s de s'en preualoir pour assieger battre surprendre et deffendre toutes places : vtiles et necessaires a tous ceux qui font profession des armes

Creator
Boillot, Joseph, approximately 1560-approximately 1603
Date
MDXCVIII [1598]
Media Format
Printed text
Location
Chaumont (Haute-Marne) A Chaumont en Bassig
Reference ID
224- 273q
Caption
A Chaumo[n]t en Bassig : Chez Quèntin Mareschal imprimeur et libraire, MDXCVIII [1598]
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Nye, Nathaniel. The art of gunnery. : Wherein is described the true way to make all sorts of gunpowder, gun-match, the art of shooting in great and small ordnance: excellent ways to take heights, depths, distances, accessible, or inaccessible, either single or divers distances at one operation: to draw the map or plot of any city, town, castle, or other fortified place. To make divers sorts of artificiall fire-works, both for war and recreation; also to cure all such wounds that are curable, which may chance to happen by gunpowder or fire-works. This treatise is composed for the help of all such gunners and others, that have charge of artillery, and are not well versed in arithmetic and geometry: all the rules and directions in this book, being framed both with and without the help of arithmetick. By Nathanael Nye mathematician, master-gunner of the city of Worcester

Creator
Nye, Nathaniel, 1624-
Date
1670
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
144- 183q
Caption
London : Printed for William Leak, at the sign of the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple Gates, 1670
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