Talk:Snaplock

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Asking a citation for 1540 start of snaplock

All the books I have about primitive flintlocks (more than 100) date the snaplock from the 3rd quater of s.XVI to the beggining of s.XVII, either in Germany or in Holland.

Two points:

Charles I would have been rather "thick" by using "wheellocks and matchlocks" in the campaign of Algiers (1541), if he had this superb snaplock in his territoties.
The Miquelet lock must be prior the snaphaunce/snaplock, because it's more primitive with all the mechanism on the outside of the platten

After the disastrous campaign of Algiers (1541) where "wind and rain" prevented firing his arquebuses, firstly by blowing away the gunpowder -on both wheellock and matchlock-(when opening the pan cover to shoot), or secondly, by wetting matches and gunpowder (Robertson 1857:382), Charles V has expressed to his gunmakers the urgent need to devise an ignition mechanism less prone to be rendered useless in bad weather. In less than three decades, a lock did appear that is known today as the Miquelet Lock.^[1]

Now we have references about an early existence of Miquelet lock (llave de rastrillo) wich the historians have never mentioned!! ca:usuari:Roger_Liart found them before leaving ca.wiki due to the abuse of authority of the administrators. The poet/novelist Ginés Pérez de Hita, in his historical novel Civil Wars of Granada, alludes to "su escopeta de rastrillo" being in common use in Xativa and Valencia prior to 1567 (start of the war) and during the Alpujarras Rebellion that ended in 1571.^[2]^[3]

You can read more about it at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Miquelet

References

^ William Robertson (1857). The history of the reign of the emperor Charles the Fifth. Phillips, Sampson, & company. pp. 382–. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
^ Ginés Pérez de Hita (1833). Guerras civiles de Granada. D. Leon Amarita. pp. 469–. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
^ Ginés Pérez de Hita (1972). Guerras civiles de Granada. Editorial MAXTOR. pp. 400–. ISBN 9788497616799. Retrieved 12 March 2011.

[Robertson1857-1] William Robertson (1857). The history of the reign of the emperor Charles the Fifth. Phillips, Sampson, & company. pp. 382–. Retrieved 26 June 2011.

[Hita1833-2] Ginés Pérez de Hita (1833). Guerras civiles de Granada. D. Leon Amarita. pp. 469–. Retrieved 26 June 2011.

[Hita1972-3] Ginés Pérez de Hita (1972). Guerras civiles de Granada. Editorial MAXTOR. pp. 400–. ISBN 9788497616799. Retrieved 12 March 2011.

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