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A Table Of The Authors And Their Dates Referred To Or Consulted
Sections refer to the authors’ own spellings or abbreviations of the variations of dram/drachm.
Drachms at 27½ Grains | |
Thomson/D’Antoni Thornhill Scott De Berenger William Greener G & J Deane Lancaster Wilkinson Scoffern Jacob Forester (USA) “Stonehenge” Dove Hans Busk Hawker (11th Edn) Douglas Jewitt Mangeot (Belgium) Shakespear Forsyth Heaton Daw S. W. Baker Miles Stelle & Harrison (USA) | 1789 1804 1820 1835 1835/41/58 1850/58 1852 1841/52 1852 1855 1856 1856/59/82 1858 1858 1859 1860 1860 1860 1862 1863/67 1864 1864 1866 1871 1883 |
Drams at 27½ Grains | |
Robins Thomson/D’Antoni E. Baker Douglas Lacy “Craven” Griffiths Jervis Musketry Instructions Dougall Hawes Ure Royal Laboratory W. W. Greener Stelle & Harrison (USA) Halford | 1742 1789 1806/25 1820 1842 1846 1852 1854 1856 to 67 1857/65 1859 1860 1865 1871/81 1883 1888 |
Grains | |
Page Montagu Chapman (USA) Wilkinson Chesney Ordnance Dept. (USA) J. Deane Wilcox (USA) Heaton Miles Young Walsh Stelle & Harrison (USA) Halford | 1770 1792 1848 1852 1852 1857 1858 1859 1864 1871 1877 1882 1883 1888 |
Drs. at 27½ Grains | |
Wilkinson Lancaster Lefroy Charlesworth “Stonehenge” Royal Laboratory Miles | 1827 1852 1854 to 67 1859 1859 1865 1871 |
Drms at 27½ Grains | |
Lancaster | 1852 |
Drachms at 54 Grains | |
Hawker (1st to 9th Edns) Lacy | 1814 to 44 1842 |
Drams at 54 Grains | |
Montagu | 1792 |
Drams at 60 Grains | |
Cleator (Essay) | 1789 |
Drachms at 60 Grains | |
Osbaldiston Thornhill Chapman (USA) | 1792 1804 1848 |
Drachm as a Foreign Measure True Weight Unspecified | |
Thomson/D’Antoni Hans Busk | 1789 1858 |
Charge as Parts of an Ounce | |
“Oakleigh” | 1833/36 |
Bullet Mould Filled | |
Leutmann (Bavaria) Beaufoy Shakespeare | 1729 1808 1862 |
Bowl of a Tobacco Pipe | |
George Edie | 1786 |
Powder as a Proportion of the Weight of the Shot | |
Spadoni (Italy) Markland Leutmann (Bavaria) Robins Page Montagu Daniel Hanger Hawker (all Edns) Hawker (USA Edn) Scott Blaine | 1673 1727 1729 1742 1770 1792 1802 1814 1814 to 54 1844 1820 1840 |
Height in the Bore | |
Chapman (USA) | 1848 |