Search
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… year the city had on their muster roll 50 muskets, 130 calivers, 110 pikes, and 10 halberts, being all footmen. In … 5 l. a man for their pay; viz. 2 pikemen, 2 muskets, 2 calivers, hand-guns or carbines; and one Kemp came dancing …
The Manuscripts of Rye and Hereford Corporations, etc.
… Hythe and Romney.] 1573, August 21."One hundred Calivers to guard the Queen at Dover." The Lord Warden having … abode. It is granted that there shall go a hundred calivers, besides "the ensigns drume, phife and vj holberds." … appointid for view of the same. Item, pikes 100 Item, calivers furnished 50 Item, serpentine powder 2 laste Item, …
The Manuscripts of Rye and Hereford Corporations, etc.
… against the common use of "dagges, handgunes, harquebuts, calivers and coats of defence." "Ye are to make serche within … ye shall see to carry any dagges, pistolles, harquebusies, calivers and suche leike in the stretes or other places … within the Cinque Ports 140 men able to be furnished with calivers and shot and to be trained and kept in rediness, I …
The Manuscripts of Rye and Hereford Corporations, etc.
… the whole, two fawkenets and 6 small bases with certaine calivers and all other munitions for the warr; and, as they … fowlers, 5 cwt. of powder, 1 cwt. of match, 15 muskets, 15 calivers, 2,500 biscuits, 14 tuns of beer, 300 nail of beef, … "We meane to augment the nomber of musketes in lieu of calivers which we must do by courteous perswacions for that …
The Manuscripts of Rye and Hereford Corporations, etc.
… this deponent saw ten or twelve men armed with muskets, calivers and pikes to spoil this deponent and his company if …
The Manuscripts of Shrewsbury and Coventry Corporations [etc]
… complete, whereof one with pike and two with halberds, two calivers complete, with their furniture, with flasks, …
The Manuscripts of Lincoln, Bury St. Edmunds etc.
… The arms are almost entirely corslets, muskets, and calivers, furnished. XV. A volume containing the depositions …