Under the heading of Sussex manufactures, Thomas Fuller writes, in the _Worthies_, of great guns:-- "It is almost incredible how many are made of the Iron in this County.

Count _Gondomer_ well knew their goodness, when of King James he so often begg'd the boon to transport them.

A Monke of Mentz (some three hundred years since) is generally reputed the first Founder of them.

Surely _ingenuity_ may seem _transpos'd_, and to have _cross'd her hands_, when about the same time a Souldier found out Printing; and it is questionable which of the two Inventions hath done more good, or more harm.

As for Guns, it cannot be denied, that though most behold them as _Instruments of cruelty_; partly, because subjecting _valour_ to _chance_; partly, because _Guns give no quarter_ (which the Sword sometimes doth); yet it will appear that, since their invention, Victory hath not stood so long a Neuter, and hath been determined with the loss of fewer lives.