Appendix F - Extracts from the Accounts of John Hampton 1430–2 – Purchases

Summary

Purchased in diverse locations in England and France by command of the king for his aforesaid war within the time of the accounts (1430–2):

• Three large guns of iron, of which one called Henry, one called Hampton and one called Crown

• Sixteen guns of iron called fowlers, with thirty-three moveable chambers, not fixed or stocked

• Four guns of bronze called fowlers, with eight moveable chambers, not fixed or stocked

• 2,128lbs of iron worked

• 6,000lbs of iron not worked

• Twenty chaulders of sea coal

• Four large carts of iron and wood for moving guns, large guns and other things, each with one pair of wheels called trokels

• Four long carts of iron and wood made for use in the country of Picardy

• 1,550 gunstones

• Fifty chains

• Forty staples

• Forty pairs of hooks

• Forty plates of iron for moving oxen

• Eighty collars

• Twenty-five double oxbows containing 300 pieces

• 100 ‘pykeys’

• Fifty axes

• 200 shovels

• 200 spades

• Forty-two ‘scoops’

• Twelve ‘crowes’ of iron

• One axle beam of iron

• Seven weights of lead

• 996 hammers of lead

• Seven big pieces of lead weighing 3,525lbs

• One pair of bellows for smiths

• 800 shafts called spear shafts

• 710 lance heads

• 391 chests for arrows and bows

• 1,204lbs of gunpowder

• 5,164lbs of saltpetre liquid not dry or pestled in powder

• 5,200lbs of sulphur rough not dry in powder

• 280lbs of charcoal

• One stock to hold saltpetre, sulphur and charcoal

• 100 long pavises

• Five short pavises

• Three cords of hemp called hankers

• Eighteen stocks of wood and iron not bound for guns called fowlers

• Forty-two empty vessels

• Eight hogsheads

• Fourteen barrels

• Six ‘wassell’ of metal

• Three saddles called ‘lymour’ saddles

• Three cruppers for ‘lymour’ saddles

• Three backs (dosers) for the same

• Two collars of rope for cart horses

• Four ‘crebis of crunbz’ for great ordnance

£2,072 4s. 8½d.