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The Casting of Bronze Guns in the Weald in the Seventeenth Century, by R. Towes, published 1977 in Wealden Iron Research Group (First Series No. 11, article, pp.15-20) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16400] & The Keep [LIB/506558] Download PDF
Abstract:The castings of bronze guns at Brenchley, in the Weald of Kent, has been overlooked in the many excellent accounts of Wealden gun founding. Yet the Browne family of gun founders were casting bronze guns there from 1634 to (approximately) 1670, and John Browne in 1638 cast the 102 bronze guns for the famous 'Sovereign of the Seas' - the show-piece of Charles I's ship-money Navy, the first English three-decker, with a distinguished record in the Dutch Wars of the Commonwealth.