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CART-BOTE

Volume 5 · 119 words · 1810 Edition

in Law, signifies wood to be employed in making and repairing instruments of husbandry.

CARTS OF WAR, a peculiar kind of artillery anciently in use among the Scots. They are thus described in an act of parliament, A.D. 1456: It is thought expedient, that the King may request to certain of the great barons of the land that are of any might, to make carts of war, and in ilk cart twa gunnis, and ilk ane to have twa chalmers, with the remnant of the grain that effects thereto, and an command man to thut thame." By another act, A.D. 1471, the prelates and barons are commanded to provide such carts of war against their old enemies the English.