Although popular to the ill-informed masses , the Brown Bess was not named for the color of its stock, nor its barrel, nor for the Queen, it was called the 'brown bess' because of then common use of the word 'brown' as meaning drab or cheap, and the word 'bess' was used to refer to a cheap woman or harlot. The barrel was often cheaply treated or painted brown to protect it from rusting. Thus among the lower class of soldiers that often carried them, the term ' brown bess', that was first used in the 1600's, became an appealing name for their own 'harlot' piece.
Bess of Hardwick died in 1608.
They tied Bess up so that she wouldn't get away!
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According to the biography Bess of Hardwick by Mary S Lovell, Bess was married 4 times; (1) Robert Barlow, (2) Sir William Cavendish, (3) Sir WIlliam St Low, and (4) George Talbot 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.
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A lot of the chapters contain information about the Brown Bess. The Brown Bess is the family gun of the Meekers, and is taken by Sam to fight in the Revolution.
The Brown Bess is a firearm, a bayonet is an attachment to a firearm like a knife.
The Brown Bess and the Charleville muskets
she was short with brown/gray hair.
The highwayman Dick Turpin owned the black bess
depends on overall condition...............
The Brown Bess musket with a bayonet attached.
Brown Bess, definitely no! That's a weapon of the 1700's. It took too long to reload. American Military did not have bayonets attached to their weapons but the Japanese did.
It was a British musket used in much of the 1700s and the first half of the 18000s.
The Musket ''Brown Bess'' they used in the american revolution