Artillery was not a significant factor in the actual tide of most 17th century pitched battles, but it was possibly the most feared. Multiple eyewitnesses state as such in Going to the Wars by Charles Carlton (1992):
[There is not doubt that artillery badly scared its targets. With their dreadful weapons, convoluted jargon of sakers, minions, drakes, and culverins, and complicated mathematical formulae, gunners were seen as a myster of the satanic arts. 'The first shot for the devil', declared a gunner's axiom, 'the second for God, and the third for the king.' 'From the Devil's arse did guns beget,' wrote Ben Jonson, the soldier turned playwright. In keeping with the wicked image of artillery Sir John Meldrum's roundheads nicknamed their heaviest piece, a 32 pounder, 4 yards long, "Sweet Lips" after a notorious whore from Hull. The Earl of Denbeigh maintained, 'I would rather lose ten lives than one piece of my artillery.' George Lauder expressed the joy and horror of the destruction guns wrought in his poem, The Scottish Soldier:
>Let me still hear the Cannons thundering Voice,
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>In terror then run; that sweet noise
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>Rings in my ears more pleasing that the sound
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>Of any music consort that can be found...
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>Then to see legs and arms torn ragged fly
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>And bodies gasping all dismembered lie.
Far from being poetic license, mention of ripped bodies and flying limbs was a commonplace in contemporary descriptions of the effect of cannon fire. An observer claimed that near Chester in 1643 a drake firing a 5 pound ball 'killed sixty of the king's party in one shot'. At Rowton Heath a 29 pound round fired at a roundhead infantry regiment 'made such a line through them that they had little mind to close again.' Colonel Slingsby claimed to have seen 'legs and arms flying apace' when balls hit infantry at the point-blank range of 200 yards. During the First Battle of Newbury, Captain Gwynne saw 'A whole file of men, six deep, with their heads struck off with one cannon shot of ours.' George Creighton, chaplain to Lord Ormonde's regiment, described the effect of artillery fire at the Battle of Ross, Wexford, in March 1647: 'I did see what terrible work the ordnance had made,what goodly men and houses lay there torn, and their guts lying on the ground, arms cast away, and strewn all over the field.'
Whether for their devilish arts, or the fiendish destruction their weapons inflicted, cavalr
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