Certaine vvayes for the ordering of souldiours in battelray, and setting of battayles, after diuers fashions with their manner of marching: and also fugures [sic] of certayne newe plattes for fortification of townes: and moreover, howe to make saltpeter, gunpouder and diuers sortes of fireworkes or wilde fyre, with other thinges appertayning to the warres. / Gathered & set foorth by Peter Whitehorne.

¶ Balles of mettell to throwe among men in battelraye or otherwise, which breaking shall doo wonderfull hurte. Cap. xxxii.

TO dissorder and to make the enemies to giue place, there maye also bée prouided, cer∣taine hollow balles of mettel as bigge as small boules, and a quarter of an inche thicke, caste in mouldes and made of thrée partes of brasse and one of tinne: but the brasse oughte to bée molte before the tinne be put to it, whiche balles filled halfe full of fine corne pouder, and the other halfe full, of serpentine pouder mingled with rosen beaten into pouder, so that for thrée partes of serpentine poulder there be one part of rosen, and then puting in the mouthes of the holes of them a litle fine corne pouder to make the rest to fire the sooner and after being fired and throwen, they will breake and flye into a thousande peeces, and both hurt & kyll whom so euer is néere or aboute them. Wherefore they are verye good to throwe ouer the walles into a towne or fortresse, or into a campe, to hurte and to giue a terrour to those that are within: but these balles after they are fired and well kindeled, and hauing blowen a litle, must be quickly throwen, least they hurt such as would hurle them: and therefore the experience of one, ought first to bée made in a close place, to sée howe long it will tary before it breake, & the holes that it will make in diuers places, wherby the other maye the better bee knowen howe to be vsed.