However, he too is over-shadowed by another anti-hero, Apthorpe with his thunder box.

ON THE OTHER HAND, MR. McGegan's framing of the Witches' scene with only the sound of a late-18th-century "thunder box" is disappointing.

He developed a number of acoustic effects machinery, such as a "thunder box", a contraption which had heavy (15 kg) iron or stone balls which rolled down a case of wooden stairs when the effect was called for.

On one occasion he was sent to the Tower of London for losing his temper during a parliamentary debate where he "dealt his opponent, Mr Ashe, a thundering box to his ear" and "flashed his sword".