Chapter 18, Item 63a
Phalarica
But the Instrument called Phalarica is made after the maner of a Javelin, and hath a strong head of Iron, and between the hollownes of pipe thereof and the staffe, it is wraped round with the foresaid combustable stuffe, which being fired and violently strucken into Wooden Turrets often tymes burnes them down.
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