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134 pulpits, and other commodities of great houses. The galliasses were rowed with great oares, there being in eche one of them 300 slaves for the same purpose, and were able to do great service with the force of their ordinance. All these, together with the residue aforenamed, were furnished and beautified with trumpets, streamers, banners, warlike ensignes, and other such like ornaments. "Their pieces of brazen ordinance were 1600, and of yron a 1000. "The bullets thereto belonging were 120 thousand. "Item of gun-poulder 5600 quintals. Of matche 1200 quintals. Of muskets and kaleivers 7000. Of haleberts and partisans 10000. "Moreover they had great store of canons, double-canons, culverings and field-pieces for land services. "Likewise they were provided of all instruments necessary on land to conveigh and transport their furniture from place to place; as namely of carts, wheeles, wagons, &c. Also they had spades, mattocks and baskets to set pioners on worke. They had in like sort great store of mules and horses, and whatsover else was requisite for a land-armie. They were so well stored of biscuit, that for the space of halfe a yeere, they might allow