Harry Byrd was not on the Senate floor when Freshman Humphrey first discharged his matchlock.
It begins with an adolescent Will composing lyrics in the forest of Charlcote Park, carries him through his matchlock wedding with Anne Hathaway and up to London.
Two Munich gunmakers, for example, used bone, ivory, chiseled steel and beaten gold to decorate a combined wheel lock and matchlock for Maximilian of Bavaria around 1600, with .