Accounts for Woolwich laboratory 1776 Military – Woolwich arsenal expense of particular services in the Royal Laboratory at Woolwich in October 1776, ms document on 6pp large folio, separated horizontally across the middle of the document but easily repaired in our estimation. The document lists the expenditure on the laboratory during the month, including the smith’s shop, assisting the medellers, proving and weighing shells, producing gunpowder etc. The document also lists all the men employed at the laboratory throughout the month of November 1776 with the number of days worked and their rates of pay. A particularly informative document on the running of England’s most important military establishment