 After dinner, was brought to Sir W. Compton a gun to discharge seven times ; the best of all devices that ever I saw, and very serviceable, and not a bawble ; for it is much approved of, and many thereof made.  Notes and Queries - Page 2631896Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Pepys - 1854 - 496 pages
...with the officers of the Ordnance ; where Sir W. Compton,2 Mr. O'Neal,3 and other great persons were. After dinner, was brought to Sir W. Compton a gun...for it is much approved of, and many thereof made. 4th. Up by five o'clock, and after my journall put in order, 1 See Pepys's own account of the institution... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1867 - 484 pages
...the officers of the Ordnance : where Sir "W". Compton,2 Mr. O'Neal,2 and other great persons were. After dinner, was brought to Sir W. Compton a gun...for it is much approved of, and many thereof made. 4th. Up by five o'clock, and after my journall put in order, to my office about my business, which... | |
 | Edward Henry Knight - 1877 - 984 pages
...QUADRANT. Re-peat'ing Fire-arm. One which discharges several successive shots without reloading. " After dinner was brought to Sir W. Compton a gun to...times, the best of all devices that ever I saw, and тегу serviceable, and not a bawblo : for it is much approved of, and in. KI \ thereof made." —... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1876 - 538 pages
...with the Officers of the Ordnance; where Sir W. Compton, Mr. O'Neale, and other great persons, were. After dinner, was brought to Sir W. Compton a gun to discharge seven times ; l the best of all devices that ever I saw, and very serviceable, and not a bawble ; for it is much... | |
 | Edward Henry Knight - 1876 - 984 pages
...QUADRANT. Re-peat'ing Fire-arm. One which discharges several successive shots without reloading. *' After dinner was brought to Sir W. Compton a gun to discharge Аетец times, the best of all devices that ever I saw, and тегу serviceable, and not a bawble... | |
 | 1916 - 724 pages
...world of sport with original ideas, to have this come hurtling down the centuries: — "July 3, 1662. "After dinner, was brought to Sir W. Compton a gun...devices that ever I saw, and very serviceable, and not a bauble; for it is much approved of, and many thereof made. "This day Mr. Caesar told me a pretty experi.... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1884 - 380 pages
...Second Earl of Chesterfield," p. 6, it is stated that he died on the and other great persons, were. After dinner, was brought to Sir W. Compton a gun...for it is much approved of, and many thereof made. Thence to my office all the afternoon as long as I could see. In the evening came Mr. Lewis to me,... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1885 - 386 pages
...Second Earl of Chesterfield," p. 6, it is stated that he died on the and other great persons, were. After dinner, was brought to Sir W. Compton a gun...for it is much approved of, and many thereof made. Thence to my office all the afternoon as long as I could see. In the evening came Mr. Lewis to me,... | |
 | William Goold - 1886 - 620 pages
...first quarter of the present century. Samuel Pepys, in his diary, says he saw in London in 1662, " a gun to discharge seven times ; the best of all devices...ever I saw, and very serviceable and not a bawble." The bayonet, which the books say was invented at Bayonne, in France, in 1640, was not known in New... | |
 | 1889 - 798 pages
...muzzle, one on top of the other. The " greate brasse hande gonne " of Porta's "Natural Magick," and the " gun to discharge seven times, the best of all devices that ever I saw, and very serviceable, and not a bauble ; for it is much approved of and many thereof made," of dear, pottering, old Pepys, were guns... | |
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