Darts and handguns: Something for later.

The internet can be a wonderful thing. While looking for some info on a music video, I found myself here:

From wipidea:

"The first clear references to the Irish píob mhór relate to Henry VIII's siege of Boulogne. A muster roll of the "Kerne to be transported into Englaunde to serve the kinge" contains entries of various pipers attached to these forces, such as "The Baron of Delvene’s Kerne: Brene McGuntyre pyper".^[2] and according to an entry in Holinshed’s Chronicles(1577) for May 1544, "In the same moneth also passed through the citie of London in warlike manner, to the number of seven hundred Irishmen, having for their weapons darts and handguns with bagpipes before them: and in St. James Park besides Westminster they mustered before the king."

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I'm going to have to add some of these to my 16thC English army. I had wanted to do some Irish but didn't really want to get into campaigning in Ireland before I finished my French and Scottish campaigns.  Something to do this winter perhaps.