The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 146
a. Although the matchlock arquebus, which was made lighter, and wasthen called mousquet, continued to be the usual arm of infantry until thetime of Louis XIII., many serious objections to the use of the serpentincontinued. It compelled the soldier always to have a lighted match, orsome means of… … Fig. 69.—Arquebus with Wheel and Match. then the priming-pan had to be opened ; these operations were, so to speak,impossible for mounted men, who at the same time had to manage theirhorses. About 1517 the Germans invented the screw-plate called à rouet,—wheel-lock (Fig. 69). To the Spaniards is…
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