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The sword was too much for the early culveriner, for he had already too many encumbrances. Grose says that “he had, in addition to the unwieldy weapon itself, his coarse powder, for loading, in a flask; his fine powder, for priming, in a touch-box; his bullets in a leather bag, with strings to draw to get at them; whilst in his hand were his musket-rest and his burning match.”