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"Edressa sos calabres, et feia mala yezina,
E sas autras peireiras, e dona, e reina;
Pessia los autz murs e la sala peirina.”
He prepared hia calabres, and theifl neighbour,
And his other machines for throwing stones, and the lady, and the queen ;
He breaks the loffy walls and the hall of .stone.
r The machine called calabra or carabaga, was, also used for throwing. l|rge
stones. According to William de Rishanger, it was -the second -SuponVde
Montfort, son of the preceding, and so famous in our barons’ wars .‘of p
^thirteenth century, who introduced most of these machines into England. |A t
the siege of Rochester, garrisoned by the partisansof the Mn^penC.III),
he used against the castle a machine which threw stones vftf- the "weight of
upwards of a hundred pounds.
The initial letter at the beginning of the present" article hji'taheri from a
MS. in the Royal library at Paris, of the thirteenth century. ,
