Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 132
ners to prepare their vessels for sea, and to equip and armthem—an order which did not require any long time or especial pains tocarry into effect, for at that period every sea being infested with pirates,merchant vessels were always forced to keep themselves armed in self-defence.Each sailor of… … Fig. 79.—Seal of the Town of Dover (1281). boarders with handspikes and cross-bow shafts. To embark, therefore, a fewcatapults and a few extra soldiers was all that was ordinarily required totransform a peaceable merchant vessel into a ship or galley of war. The admiral appointed to the command of…
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