“Et non cessabant qui miserant eos ministri regis succendere fornacem, naphtha, et stuppa, et pice, et malleolis,”
Brimstone. Literally, naphtha, (Haydock) or bitumen, which was very inflammable. — Tow, besmeared with pitch. (Calmet) — Dry (malleolis) “bundles” of sticks, or ropes, covered with pitch. (Haydock) — Manipuli spartœi pice contecti. (Nonius.)