Further reading has shed a bit more light on the subject of wadding, but not a lot. In Eduard Wagner's book "European Weapons & Warfare 1618 - 1648" he mentions that musketeers were using paper cartridges by the second quarter of the seventeenth century, containing both powder and ball. These were considered a huge improvement on previous methods. Having used paper cartidges to load from, I assume they bit the top off the cartridge, dumped powder and ball down the barrel and then put the empty paper cartridge down the barrel and then rammed the whole lot to get a good compressive seal. The type of paper used? Why cartidge paper of course!De Gehyn's Book "The Exercise of Armes" has no mention of using wadding. In no contemporary source can I find any mention of "Apostles" either. All references are to "bandoliers". I have the feeling that I have seen reference to the fact that "Apostles" is one of those Victorian constructs with no foundation in history. Bandoliers could have any number of wooden charges, ranging from eight to sixteen.