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Henrie the eight King of England, vsed a percullice of yron for a simbole, or signe, which is an engine of defence, vsed for the most part in gates and portes of cities and townes. Such an other kind of militarie stra- tagem was there deuised at Rome (as Appian writeth) in the time of ciuill discention, when Scilla chalenging the empire to himself, ouer- threw the armie of Carbonians, pressing to enter in by the gate of Collina: for letting fal the percullice, many of the Senators, and those that were of the Carbonian faction were all slaine.
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