The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2024), date accessed: 19 April 2024

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Materials to be sent north

The estates ordain the general of the artillery and his deputes to deliver out of the public magazine to [Archibald Campbell], marquis of Argyll, or any having his warrant, one petard2, 500 spades and shovels, 100 mattocks3, 50 axes, 200 lances, 5,000 weight of powder, 7,000 weight of match and [...] musket ball, for the which this act shall be their warrant.

  1. NAS. PA8/1, f.141v-142r.
  2. Defined in OED as 'a small engine of war used to blow in a door or gate, or to make a breach in a wall, etc.; originally of metal and bell-shaped, later a cubical wooden box, charged with powder, and fired by a fuse'.
  3. Defined in OED as 'a tool similar to a pick but with a point or chisel edge at one end of the head and an adze-like blade at the other, used for breaking up hard ground, grubbing up trees, etc.'.