CARTS of War, a peculiar kind of artillery anciently in
use among the Scotch. In an act of parliament passed in
the year 1456, they are thus described: "It is thought
speidfull, that the king may request to certain of the
great burrows of the land that are of ony myght, to mak
carts of weir, and in ilk cart twa gunnis, and ilk ane to have
twa chalmers, with the remnant of the graith that effeers
thereto, and an cunnand man to shut thame." By another
act passed in 1471, the prelates and barons are command-
ed to provide such carts of war against their old enemies
the English.