From the beginning, Clemens was a fireballer, Wells more of a junkballer.

A Higgledy-Piggledy of Controversies and Opinions on various intereſting Subjects

[…] they are attended like the Lords and Princes of the earth, with mighty retinues, and are carryed in coaches with foure or six horses a peece in them, when a wheele barrow such as they trundle white wine vineger about the towne were a great deale fitter for them […]

The volcanic episode begins with the deposition of the Puripicar ignimbrite, a name given by Guest (1969) to a series of welded light gray or pink dacitic tuffs with a high content of phenocrysts, among which big crystals of biotite of up to 3 mm and an amatrice-type pink quartz are remarkable.