What was a "Qua" in a "Subsidy of Armour" in 1590?
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Look at your same document , pg viii(pdf page 18), which defines the abbreviations used. Qua is listed as
the equipment of a man armed with a caliver or harquebus.
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It is probably the abbreviation for a "caliver" - a type of arquebus
UPDATE:
I just found an online copy of the Subsidy of Armour, published by the Lincoln Record Society. In it, the items enumerated are listed in a footnote. A "Que". is indeed a caliver in this context.
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