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She seemed to me a very comely woman: but I hope to see more of her on May-day. 28th. Castle at Half-way Tree, they tell me of stone-shot of thirty-six inches diameter, which they shot out of mortar-pieces. 29th. Sir G. Carteret tells me my Lord Arlington hath done like a gentleman by him in all things.
Lastly, too, plum-puddings, somewhat resembling those stone-shot used by the Turks in days of yore, were placed before the carvers, and were pronounced excellent as to composition, but were declared to possess rather more consistency than was absolutely requisite. Indeed, few of the guests, with the exception of the midshipmen, made any great inroads on them.
As late as the year 1835, Mr Deane, by means of his ingenious invention, the diving-bell, was enabled to recover several guns, parts of the wreck, and some stone-shot of the Mary Rose. Ships generally carried but few guns.
Down in the square was heard the sentinel's tread; from a bough that drooped against the wall a globe of vegetable gold fell with the noise of stone-shot.
In the affair Cesare had a narrow escape from a stone-shot fired from the castle, whilst one of his officers Onorio Savelli was killed by a cannon-ball from the duke's own guns, whose men, unaware of what was taking place, were continuing the bombardment. Hitherto the army had been forced to endure foul weather rain, fogs, and wind; but there was worse come.
Stone-shot had hitherto been used both at sea and on shore, but about the middle of the century they were superseded by iron shot. About the same period matchlocks were introduced on board ships.
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