By hand.
As a very rough guide you had the pike, the matchlock musket, the sword and the cannon.
At the time of Miles Standish, the standard firearm was a large caliber matchlock musket. This used a slow smoldering length of cord (the match) to ignite a powder charge, and was replaced by the flintlock. This is a link to an article on the matchlock musket- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchlock
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As a very rough guide you had the pike, the matchlock musket, the sword and the cannon.
it looks like a rifle with a horse on the end
yes <>><><> "Tudor" refers to the time between 1485 and 1603. And yes, there were somewhat primitive guns in existence- typically the matchlock musket.
Early black powder large caliber smooth bore musket. IIRC, muzzle is slightly funnel shaped to assist loading.
Williamite weapons: -Flintlock musket -Flintlock pistol -Grenade -Pike (limited usage) -Swords -Bayonet Jacobite weapons: -Matchlock musket -Flintlock pistol -Pike -Swords -Various peasant weapons and farm tools.
They are muzzle loading muskets (long guns)- or rarely, pistols (short guns). Matchlock means that a slow match (a smoldering piece of thin cord) is pressed into the priming powder to make the gun fire. The link below is to a good photo of a typical matchlock musket.
They used matchlock muskets, a few wheel lock muskets, swords, pikes, and cannons.
The Matchlock Gun was created in 1941.
The ISBN of The Matchlock Gun is 0-698-11680-1.