The Baynard family - Lackham Countryside Centre

The Baynards
Delyvered ii longe bowes and ii shife (sheaves) of arowes in
(?) skorys cap
vgyrdels with theyer hangyns
ii colyvers with theyer hedpece stychboxe and flaske
iicoslets (corslets) with ii pykes
ii aumanry vets
visordes iii daggers
inskorys cap or in skocys cap is very ill written but one guesses it
was a case or quiver for arrows
The colyver or caliver was the regulation firearm for Elizabethan
days. The flaske was for the powder and the tyche box (touch
box) was a small flask to hold priming powder.
Aumanryvettes¸(Alamayne-rivettes) was armour of German
invention with rivets to render it flexible.
The caliver
fired a smaller ball than the musket, typically between 20
and 30 to the pound. Together with the common practice of
firing [with the gun held] away from the body, it could not
have been too accurate at more than 40 or 50 paces, nor
particularly effective at over 80.
The English were know to fight "pell-mell", that is all falling
on to the enemy and it is likely that the caliver men kept up
with the targeteers (men carrying broadswords and large
shields) so that they could fire at close range prior to the
targeteers impact. 216
214 given in an article in the local paper and preserved in the Cunnington archive
in Devizes Museum
215 27 September 1594
216 http://www.tudorgroup.co.uk/index.html
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