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<P>Compendium Belli: OR THE TOVCHSTONE OF MARTIALL DISCIPLINE. Wherein is &s;et foorth briefe rules and Directions to take &s;peciall notice of. <HI>The next of Marches, Exerci&s;ing of a</HI> Com|pany, ordering of Muskaters, Imbattelling from 100. vnto 40000. The forme of Encamping, with briefe Notes be|longing therevnto: Plots of Fortifications and Forts: With the manner of Lading and blowing off <HI>Great Ordnance, making of Granados.</HI> Al&s;o &s;hewing the Extraction of the &s;quare Roote, with a Table from 16. vnto 10000. Likewi&s;e certaine Que&s;tions of Arithmaticke concerning Millitary Di&s;cipline: With a Ta|ble al&s;o for the di&s;couering of numbers by Rancke and File. <HI>Virtus gloriam paret.</HI></P>
<P>Witten by IOHN ROBERTS of We&s;ton neere <HI>Bath,</HI> Gent.</P>
<P>London printed by <HI>I. Norton</HI> and <HI>A. Mathewes.</HI> 1626.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
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<HEAD><HI>TO THE RIGHT HO|nourable WILLIAM Earle of</HI> Pembrooke, <HI>Lord</HI> Herbert <HI>of Cardiffe, Lo:</HI> Parre <HI>and</HI> Ro&s;&s;e <HI>of Kendall, Lo:</HI> Marmion <HI>and St.</HI> Quintin: <HI>Lord Warden of the</HI> Staneries <HI>in the County of Deuon and Cornewall, of the mo&s;t Noble</HI> Order of the Garter, Knight: Chancellor of the <HI>V|niuer&s;ity of Oxford, and Captaine of the Kings Ma|ie&s;ties Towne and Ca&s;tle of Port&s;mouth, and the Iland of Port&s;ey, Lo: Chamberlaine to his Maie&s;tie, and one of the Lords of his Maie&s;ties mo&s;t honorable Priuy Councell.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>RIGHT HONORABLE:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_BEing filled with a &s;tudious ob&s;eruati|on of your noble parts, and a decla|ratory fame of the Vertues and <HI>Hero|icke actions</HI> of your Fame-worthy
<PB REF="3"> Progenitors, and tho&s;e tran&s;-mitted vnto You by a &s;ucce&s;siue <HI>Lineall</HI> and <HI>Hereditary</HI> right: &s;o that that rare Coniunction of <HI>Ca&s;tor</HI> and
<HI>Pol|lux,</HI> Imeane, <HI>Nobilitas, &amp; Ortu, &amp; Arte,</HI> are both happily conioyned in your noble Per&s;on. The Cu|rious &s;uruey of the multitude of your Honourable parts bred in me a num|ber of de&s;ires: &s;o that J have aduen|tured to breake the barren &s;oyle of my vnluckie Portion, that pro&s;perous &s;ucce&s;&s;e &s;hould rather want to my en|deauours, then diligent endeauours to my loyall determination. My &s;ub|mi&s;siue re&s;pect to your noble and He|roicke Vertues haue bin a pre&s;ump|tatiue cau&s;e to de&s;ire your Lord&s;hips gratious Patronage of this my <HI>Com|pendium Belli,</HI> but how my vnwor|thyne&s;&s;e
<PB REF="3"> may hope of your Goodnes, J cannot finde but in the notes of your tran&s;cendent and generous di&s;po&s;i|tion. Thus in the lowe&s;t humility of affection, J offer both my &s;elfe, and the Imployment of my vnde&s;eruing &s;eruice, freely to your Honors accep|tance: and doe de&s;ire both to be, and to appeare to be</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Honors humble&s;t and mo&s;t devoted Seruant IOHN ROBERTS.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To all Gentlemen and Louers of the Art of Warre.</HEAD>
<P>_NOble and ingenious Reader, I haue pre&s;ented to the world, and to thy viewe this
<HI>Compendium,</HI> that thou with it maye&s;t reape, that only, by thy intuitiue &s;peculation, which I haue got by my laborious practi&s;e: I make no doubt, of thy skill and knowledge herein, but that thou knowe&s;t, and ha&s;t &s;een, this in thine owne practicke, by thy indu|&s;trious trauell; Which now thou &s;ee&s;t here in the Theoricke, by my laborious paines. Therefore I de&s;ire your courteous cen&s;ure in the peru&s;all of this Booke: for if any thing be mi&s;taken through equiuocation of words, or ambiguitie of &s;en&s;e, blame the fruitle&s;&s;e rage of De&s;tiny, that carries the be&s;t &s;hafts of my vnlucky Quiuer farr di&s;tant from the white I aymed at. I did it
<PB REF="4"> for the honour of my Countrey, and the generall good of the common weale: for which rea&s;ons, I hope it may pa&s;&s;e with|out the mole&s;tation of any of the vnskil|full<HI>:</HI> The Learned and Ingenious I honor; and willingly &s;tand to their cen&s;ure; To the re&s;t</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Farewell.</SALUTE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD><HI>Compendium Belli:</HI> OR THE TOVCHSTONE of Martiall Di&s;cipline.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Principall and e&s;peciall Rules for euery Commaunder to be perfect in.</HEAD>
<P>_THo&s;e things that helpeth the Enemie greatly, annoyeth thee, and the &s;ame that hel|peth thee, hurteth him.</P>
<P>Hee that is more carefull and vigelant, to ob&s;erue the cunning and polliticke deui|&s;es of the Enemy, and al&s;o ta|keth mo&s;t paines in the exerci&s;ing his Company, or Army, &s;hall be &s;ure to incurre lea&s;t perills, and may haue greate&s;t hope of victorie.</P>
<P><PB N="2" REF="6"> Neuer enterpri&s;e any dangerous incounter with thy Souldiers, but fir&s;t by thy pollicie, let there be giuen out, hope of victorie.</P>
<P>It is better to conq<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">er the Enemy with famine, then with the &s;word; in the victory of which, for|tune may doe much more then valoure.</P>
<P>No plot or purpo&s;e is better then that which is hid from the Enemy, vntill it be executed.</P>
<P>To know in the warre how to vnder&s;tand occa|&s;ion, and take it, more auayleth then any thing.</P>
<P>Nature breedeth few &s;trong and valient men, but indu&s;try and exerci&s;e maketh many.</P>
<P>Di&s;cipline may doe much more in time of bat|tell, then furie.</P>
<P>If any of the Enemies Souldiers depart from them and fly to thee (&s;o they prooue faythfull) they &s;hall be allwaies vnto thee great gaines, and &s;tand thee in great &s;teede, for that the power of thy Enemies are thereby demini&s;hed, and much more weakened, then of tho&s;e that be &s;laine, though the name of a Fugitiue be to old frinds o|dious, to new &s;u&s;pected.</P>
<P>Better it is in pitching the field, to re&s;erue be|hinde the fir&s;t front ayde enough, then to make a big front, which will doe great hurt, and di&s;per&s;e the Companies.</P>
<P>He is difficultly ouercome, which knoweth his owne &s;trength, and the power of his enemies.</P>
<P>The valour of the Souldiers, more auaileth then the multitude.</P>
<P><PB N="3" REF="6"> Sometimes the &s;ituation helpeth more then va|lour.</P>
<P>New &amp; &s;odaine thinges make Armies affraide; &s;lowe and accu&s;tomed things be little regarded: Therefore make thy Armie practi&s;e; and know, with &s;mall fightes a new enemy, before thou ad|uentere&s;t to fight a field with them.</P>
<P>He that with di&s;order followeth the enemie after that their order is broken, will become of a Conquerour a Conquered.</P>
<P>He that prepareth not nece&s;&s;ary victualls, with all manner of Amunition, is ouercome without the Sword.</P>
<P>He that tru&s;teth more in Foote-men then Hor&s;e-men, or in Hor&s;e-men more then in Foote-men, mu&s;t accomodate him&s;elfe with the &s;ituation.</P>
<P>When thou would&s;t &s;ee if in the day there be come any Spie into the Campe, make proclama|tion that euery man goe to his lodging, &s;o &s;hall you know your owne men from &s;trangers.</P>
<P>Change purpo&s;e if thou perceiue&s;t that thy e|nemie hath fore&s;eene it.</P>
<P>Con&s;ult with many aboute the thinges thou oughte&s;t to doe, the &s;ame thou wilt after doe, conferre with few.</P>
<P>Souldiers when they abide at home, are main|teyned with feare and puni&s;hment; after, when they are led to the warre, with hope and rewarde.</P>
<P>Be &s;ure the enemie know not how thou wilt order thy Army in battell; and what&s;oeuer man|ner
<PB N="4" REF="7"> &s;ets the battell, make that the fir&s;t Bande be receiued off fir&s;t and &s;econd.</P>
<P>In fight neuer occupie the battell to any other thing then to the &s;ame for which thou ha&s;t ap|pointed it, if thou meane&s;t to make no di&s;order.</P>
<P>Suddaine accidents are remedyed with difficul|ty, tho&s;e that are thought vpon with facility.</P>
<P>Before thou bringe&s;t thy Souldiers to giue bat|tell, cau&s;e them to be ranged in forme of battell, making of his Foote-men &s;undry Battalions, and of tho&s;e &s;undry fronts; to deuide the Hor&s;e-men al&s;o in &s;undry troopes, placing the Lances, Light-hor&s;emen, and Hargubu&s;iers, euery front in &s;eue|rall troupes by them&s;elues, to cau&s;e the forlorne to i&s;&s;ue out, and skirmi&s;h them before the batta|lions, as if the enemy were indeed pre&s;ent, and vpon a retreate &s;ounded and beaten, &s;uddenly to retire: The Hor&s;e-men to charge, and &s;uddenly to returne againe into their place; vpon their re|treate to cau&s;e certaine &s;leeues of Pikes, and light armed, to runne out to their reskew, as though the enemie did pur&s;ue them: Then the Battalions of the fir&s;t front to march forward, and charge the enemie, and &s;uddenly after the &s;ound of the retreate, to retire them&s;elues orderly, betweene the Battalions of the &s;econd front: Then the &s;e|cond front mu&s;t charge, and march forward toge|ther with the other that la&s;t retired, and make head together vpon the enemy.</P>
<P>La&s;t of all, the light armed Foote-men and
<PB N="5" REF="7"> Hor&s;e-men mu&s;t i&s;&s;ue out, as it were to doe exe|cution vpon the enemie.</P>
<P>Whil&s;t fayre weather is, the Generall mu&s;t acquaint the Souldiers to &s;leepe vpon bare ground: Although the enemy be farre ab&s;ent, yet duely to mainteine the Skoutes, lay out their Pardues, &s;et forth their Centryes, and performe all manner of Millitary Orders, as curiou&s;ly and carefully as if the enemie were pre&s;ent: He mu&s;t keepe his Souldiers in continuall exerci&s;e; and by feigned Allarums, to &s;ee in what readine&s;&s;e his Forces would be (if nece&s;&s;ity required:) But if the enemie chance to cau&s;e any Allarum in|deede, it is his pollicie then to cau&s;e the Campe to be in armes by the &s;ound only of the Drumbe|&s;tickes, or &s;ome other priuate watch-word, or &s;ome Warning-peece, which when the enemie perceiues that the Campe is in Armes without any manner of Allarum, will much amaze and terrify them, to finde them in &s;uch readine&s;&s;e, da|ring them and their affronts.</P>
<P>Al&s;o, the Generall ought to &s;hew them all manner of wayes how the enemie may at|tempt them, di&s;couering al&s;o to them their remedy, and how they are to an&s;were to tho&s;e attempts; for no Man is borne a Souldier, but by exerci&s;e and indu&s;try it is attayned, and by di&s;continuance againe it is lo&s;t, as all other Artes and Sciences are.</P>
<P><PB N="6" REF="8"> You mu&s;t haue a &s;peciall care, that the Army haue not in their faces the du&s;t to blinde them, the winde to di&s;turbe them, or the Sunne beames to annoy them, before they enter into any maine Encounter; the which Impediments, not only altogether, but each one by him&s;elfe alone, doth bring great toyle, trouble, and di&s;aduantage.</P>
<P><PB REF="8">
<FIGURE>
<HEAD>The forme of &s;euerall Marches.</HEAD>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P><PB N="8" REF="9"> IF you meane to exerci&s;e a Company, you mu&s;t bring them into this forme.
<HI>viz.</HI> The Muskatiers mu&s;t be placed on both &s;ides of the Pikes, fiue Files on one &s;ide, and fiue on the o|ther, the Pikes ten deepe, and &s;o many &s;quare in the middle.</P>
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<HEAD>To your Right Hand.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t note, that before you begin to exerci&s;e the Company, you fir&s;t commaund them to ad|uance their Pikes, and to &s;houlder their Muskets: Then you haue no more to doe, but to cau&s;e them to turne to their Right-hand, which is thus; They mu&s;t not remooue their Left legge from the ground, but turue vpon it, and remooue on|ly the Right, to make the Right hand File the Front, as you &s;ee in this Figure.</P>
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<HEAD>As you were.</HEAD>
<P>As you turned to your Right, &s;o in the &s;ame manner you mu&s;t turne backe to your Left, kee|ping your Left legge &s;till vpon the ground, vntill you come euen with the Front.</P>
<P><PB N="9" REF="9">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
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<PB N="10" REF="10">
<HEAD>To the Left Hand.</HEAD>
<P>Becau&s;e the Enemy may &s;ometimes Charge on the Left Hand Flanke; Therefore, that you may be &s;udainely ready to defend your &s;elues, and of|fend them; and for diuers rea&s;ons be&s;ides, this Motion is v&s;ed: And to doe it, you mu&s;t mooue with your Right Foote, vntill your Faces front toward the Left Flanke, your Left Foote not moouing from the place where it &s;tood before, but turning.</P>
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<HEAD>As you Were.</HEAD>
<P>Then hauing performed the afore&s;aid Motion, the Captaine commaunds, <HI>As you weare,</HI> and then they mooue all towards the Right Hand, vntill they are turned to the fir&s;t Front, moouing vpon the &s;ame Foote you did before.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Right Hand About.</HEAD>
<P>This Motion is v&s;ed, when the Enemy doth Charge in the Reare; then keepe your Left Foote &s;till, and turne to the Reare, and Charge, or otherwi&s;e for exerci&s;e.</P>
<P><PB N="11" REF="10">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="12" REF="11">
<HEAD>To the Left Hand as you were.</HEAD>
<P>Hauing performed the former Motion, the Captaine commaunds them, To the Left hand as you were, the Left Foote remaines fixed, vntill their faces be turned to the former front.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>To the Left Hand about.</HEAD>
<P>Sometimes it is more conuenient to turne to the Left Hand then to the Right, therefore this Motion is v&s;ed, the Left Legge &s;till &s;tanding.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>To the Right hand as you were.</HEAD>
<P>It is but turning towards your Right Hand, vn|till you come to the former Front.</P>
<P><PB N="13" REF="11">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
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<PB N="14" REF="12">
<HEAD>Rankes to your Right Hand Double.</HEAD>
<P>This Motion is onely v&s;ed, to double and &s;trengthen the Front; and thus it is done, all in the &s;econd Ranke, march vp in the fir&s;t; and fir&s;t, they mu&s;t &s;et forward the Right Legge, and then the Left, making but two Paces to the Front, and &s;o the Fourth, the Sixth, the Eight, and Tenth Ranke, mu&s;t likewi&s;e doe all at one in&s;tant.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Rankes to your Left Hand as you were.</HEAD>
<P>Hauing performed the former Motion, you turne about at the Word of Commaund, and &s;et forward your Left Foote, and &s;o make two Pa|ces, comming into your forme againe, all at one in&s;tant.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Rankes to your Left Hand double.</HEAD>
<P>This is almo&s;t all one as you did with the Right, &s;aue you mu&s;t &s;et forward your Left Leg fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t, and put your &s;elfe on the Left Hand of your Leader.</P>
<P><PB N="15" REF="12">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="16" REF="13">
<HEAD>Rankes to your Right Hand as you were.</HEAD>
<P>You mu&s;t fir&s;t t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">rne to your Right, becau&s;e you will come the better into your place; and then &s;et forward your Right Foote, it is more &s;eemely and Souldier like by much then any o|ther way.</P>
<P>Becau&s;e you &s;ee there is an odde File of Muska|tiers, you mu&s;t place the Muskatiers all to the Right Flanke, and it is ea&s;ely donne thus, cau&s;ing the Left Wing to &s;tand &s;till, and the re&s;t to mooue one pace forwards; then the word of Commaund is; Left Flanke to the Right Hand, and march through thy Files, which with ea&s;e is to be done.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Files to your Right Hand double.</HEAD>
<P>There is occa&s;ion &s;ometimes to &s;trengthen the Flankes, and then they v&s;e this word of Com|maund, which is no more to performe then this, if it be to the Right Hand; then the Right Flanke &s;tandeth &s;till, and the next File doubleth it, that is, fall iu&s;t behinde his Side-man, in File with him; Then the Third, Fifth, Seuenth, and eue|ry other &s;tands: Remember that you mu&s;t make them doe it all at one motion together.</P>
<P><PB N="17" REF="13">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="18" REF="14">
<HEAD>Files as you were.</HEAD>
<P>All tho&s;e that doubled, returne into their pro|per places, by &s;etting their left Legge fir&s;t to pace: Remember when you double to your right hand, you put your right Legge forward, and when on the left, your left Legge, and &s;o backwards.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Files to your Left Hand double.</HEAD>
<P>This motion differeth little from the other, &s;aue that the left flancke doe &s;tand &s;till, and the Second doubles it in this action; in doubling the left Legge, goeth to double, and the right com|ming backe.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Files as you were.</HEAD>
<P>Is iu&s;t as the other was, &s;aue they fall backe to the right hand, with the right legge.</P>
<P><PB N="19" REF="14">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P><PB N="20" REF="15"> Hauing performed the doubling of Files, which was don with the Shot in the Right Hand Flanck of the Pikes: Now you mu&s;t place them as they were before, one halfe on the Right Flancke, the other on the Left of the Pikes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Halfe Files to your Right Hand, Double your Rankes.</HEAD>
<P>This mu&s;t be done by the &s;ixt Rancke, and you mu&s;t doe it at ten Paces thus; Fir&s;t with your Right Leg &s;et forward, you mu&s;t March forward, and aduance your Ground towards the Front, all the Rancke ob&s;eruing the Right Hand Leader, and &s;o mooue altogether to the Front, with whom you mu&s;t Ranke; ob&s;eruing likewi&s;e that when you thus begin to double, you Aduance your Pikes, &amp; when you haue doubled the Front, Order your Pikes, the Sixt mu&s;t rancke with the Fir&s;t, the Seuenth with the Second, the Eight with the Third, and &s;o all the re&s;t.</P>
<P><PB N="21" REF="15">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P><PB N="22" REF="16"> When you haue performed the former Motion, they mu&s;t turne to the Right Hand, which is more gracefull and comely, with the Right Foote &s;et forward, and &s;o Retreate to the Reare, at ten Pa|ces more, ob&s;eruing your Left Hand, and then you will be tenn deepe againe as you were.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Halfe Files to your Left Hand, Double your Rankes.</HEAD>
<P>There is no difference, but onely that the halfe Files mu&s;t march vp to the Left Hand of the Files that &s;tand.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Halfe Files to the Right Hand, As you were.</HEAD>
<P>The halfe Files aduance their Pikes, and falles back with their Right Legge, to be cleare of their Side-men, &amp; &s;o march into their proper places.</P>
<P><PB N="23" REF="16">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
<HEAD>Halfe Files to your Right Hand, as you were.</HEAD>
</FIGURE>
<FIGURE>
<HEAD>Halfe Files to your Left Hand, double your Rankes.</HEAD>
</FIGURE>
<FIGURE>
<HEAD>Halfe Files to the Right Hand, as you were.</HEAD>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="24" REF="17">
<HEAD>Files to your Right hand Countermarch.</HEAD>
<P>When a Charge is expected in the Reare, and it being thought conuenient to haue the Leaders of the Files in the places of the bringers vp, be|cau&s;e they are men be&s;t able to receiue the Ene|mie. The Leaders aduancing with their Right Legge turned to the Right Hand, and march downe towards the Reare, all the body of the Company, mouing together: for when the fir&s;t Filers turne, the Second aduanceth in their pla|ces, and doth the like, and &s;o Third, Fourth, and Fifth, &amp;c. There is al&s;o another kinde of Coun|termarch, which is called the <HI>Lacedemonian Coun|termarch,</HI> which is for the Fir&s;t Rancke to Face towards the Reare; the Second, and all the re&s;t of the Body to March vp, and turne behinde their Leaders, you may Countermarch likewi&s;e by Ranckes as you doe by Files.</P>
<P><PB N="25" REF="17">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
<HEAD>Files to your Right Hand, Counter-march.</HEAD>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="26" REF="18">
<HEAD>Files to your Right Hand Countermarch.</HEAD>
<P>This motion differeth nothing in the world from the other, for you mu&s;t turne vp on the &s;ame Hand againe, and aduance with the Left Legge, and turne to the Right Hand, and then you March iu&s;t in the place you were in before.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Clo&s;e your Files both wayes at a Foote and Halfe.</HEAD>
<P>If a Charge of Hor&s;e bee expected, then the Foote are to be in the clo&s;e&s;t Order, which is one Foote and a Halfe in File, and there in Rancke.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Clo&s;e your Ranckes to three Foote.</HEAD>
<P>Which is nothing el&s;e, but to Pace on to the Sword point, which is the iu&s;t di&s;tance of Three Foote,</P>
<P><PB N="27" REF="18">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
<HEAD>Clo&s;e your Files a Foot and a halfe.</HEAD>
<HEAD>Clo&s;e your rankes to three Foot.</HEAD>
</FIGURE> </P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="28" REF="19">
<HEAD>Ranckes to the Right Hand wheele.</HEAD>
<P>If the Enemie Charge on the Right Hand Flancke, to receiue them with the mo&s;t able men which are commonly in the Front, it may be thus performed; the Leader of the Right Hand File &s;tandeth fixed, onely turning his body, and the re&s;t moue vpon him as the Centre, ob&s;eruing &s;till the di&s;tance and &s;traightne&s;&s;e of their Rancks and File, without which, this motion will not be per|formed gracefully.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Rancks to your Left Hand wheele.</HEAD>
<P>There is no difference in the performance of this motion, and the latter, but that the Left Hand Leader &s;tands, and the re&s;t wheeles towards him.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Ranckes to the Right Hand wheele vpon a Center.</HEAD>
<P>All to the Right Hand of the middle of the Front goe backwards, and on the Left forwards.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Rancks to the Left Hand wheele vpon the Center.</HEAD>
<P>All the Left Hand of the Center wheeles back|wards, and the right forwards.</P>
<P><PB N="29" REF="19"> <HI>Rankes to your Right Hand Wheele.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Rankes to your Left Hand Wheele.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Rankes to your Right Hand wheele vp|on the Center.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Rankes to your Left hand, wheele vp|on the Center.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="32" REF="20">
<HEAD>Open your Ranckes backward.</HEAD>
<P>To open the Banckes, vnder&s;tand that the Front or Fir&s;t Rancke &s;tandeth &s;till, and the other nine Ranckes fall backwards altogether, vntill the Second Rancke bee Sixe Foote di&s;tant from the fir&s;t, and then it &s;tands &s;till: &s;o likewi&s;e mu&s;t you doe with all the Ranckes, vntill they bee di&s;tant &s;ixe foote one from another.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Open your Files both wayes.</HEAD>
<P>In opening your Files, halfe the body moue to|wards the right hand, and halfe towards the left hand ingro&s;&s;e, and then the two middlemo&s;t files when they are three foote di&s;tant, &s;tand &s;till, and the re&s;t of the body continues moouing both wayes vntill the next two files, are di&s;tant three foote more, and &s;o of all the re&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Here you are in your Order as you were at fir&s;t, three foote in File, and &s;ixe foote in Rancke.</HEAD>
<P><PB N="30" REF="20">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
<HEAD>Open your rankes Backwards.</HEAD>
<HEAD>Open your Files both wayes.</HEAD>
</FIGURE> </P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="32" REF="21">
<HEAD>How to exerci&s;e Muskatieres.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>Fir&s;t Rancke giue Fire, and Countermarch to the Reare.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, you mu&s;t vnder&s;tand that they mu&s;t bee three foote in file, and three foote in rancke, and then the Captain giues the Word of Command, and they Countermarch to the reare, and there ranke: note alwayes that you Countermarch &s;till to the right hand, and neuer to the left: this is done &s;tanding, and therefore loo&s;eth ground; &s;ome will &s;ay Countermarching with Muskets in skirmi&s;hing is improper, but I &s;ay it is as the &s;ci|tuation is, for if you haue but little ground to make a front, and haue a bigg front to oppo&s;e you, then you may v&s;e Countermarching, becau&s;e you haue not ground enough for to fight by diui&s;ions.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>The Second Order.</HEAD>
<P>You mu&s;t make a diui&s;ion in the mid&s;t, of &s;ixe foote, then the Captaine commands fir&s;t and &s;e|cond ranks, make ready, and then Marcheth with them &s;ome &s;ixe paces from the front, and then &s;ayes, Fir&s;t rancke giue fire, which when they haue performed, they Marchone halfe through the Deui&s;ion, and the other by the right flancke to the Reare.</P>
<P><PB N="33" REF="21">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
<HEAD>Fir&s;t Ranke giue Fire and Countermarch to the Reare.</HEAD>
<HEAD>Fir&s;t and &s;econd Rankes make ready: Fir&s;t Rranke giue Fire, &amp;c.</HEAD>
</FIGURE> </P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<PB N="34" REF="22">
<HEAD>The Third Order.</HEAD>
<P>As you did before, &s;o you mu&s;t doe now, but that as &s;oone as you haue drawne out the two fir&s;t rancks, and when the fir&s;t is come in place to pre|&s;ent, you may v&s;e this Word of Command, <HI>Second Rancke to your right hand, Double your Front, and giue Fire then as you were:</HI> La&s;tly, let them March one halfe through the Diui&s;ion, and the other by the right hand flancke, as afore to the rancke in the reare; ob&s;erue that as &s;oone as the fir&s;t falls off to the reare; the &s;econd immediatly followes, and this demon&s;tration is of gayning ground, for the body is &s;till marching &s;oftly forward.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>The Fourth Order.</HEAD>
<P>The Company retreating, the Captaine &s;ayes to the la&s;t rancke, <HI>To the right hand about and giue Fire,</HI> and then they rancke in the reare, and per|formes the &s;ame, the one halfe marcheth through the Deui&s;ion, and the other by the right hand flancke, to the front, and &s;o by the la&s;t ranke con|tinually; this is an order of loo&s;ing ground.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>The Fifth Order.</HEAD>
<P>Vpon your Retreate, the Enemie following hard neere you, to annoy them, you cau&s;e the la&s;t rancke to doubl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> the reare &s;till, and giue Fire, which before you gaue Fire with ten; now you doe with twenty, and &s;o done, they March in their places as afore.</P>
<P><PB N="35" REF="22">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
<HEAD>Second Ranke to the right Hand double your Front, and giue Fire.</HEAD>
<HEAD>La&s;t Ranke to the right Hand about, and giue fire.</HEAD>
<HEAD>La&s;t Ranke to the right Hand about, double your Reare, and giue Fire.</HEAD>
</FIGURE> </P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<PB N="36" REF="23">
<HEAD>The Sixth Order.</HEAD>
<P>To this Order you mu&s;t make no Diui&s;ion at all, and when you haue giuen Fire according to the Word of Command, you mu&s;t cau&s;e them to &s;tand &s;till, onely turning their faces to the front, and prime vpon their Re&s;ts, and when the other File is cleare of the right flanke, they performe the like, I meane, turne to the right hand, and giue fire; then in&s;tantly the right flanke Marcheth vp to the front of that File, and the other File pri|meth vpon their Re&s;t the while, and &s;o all the Files doth the like: note that the body &s;till March|eth, this Order is v&s;ed when you are Charged vp|on the right flanke.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>The Seauenth Order.</HEAD>
<P>This order is all one with the la&s;t, &s;aue that the flanke as &s;oone as they haue giuen fire, the one halfe marcheth through the Diui&s;ion, and the o|ther by the reare, and rankes in the left flanke, iu&s;t as they were before; &s;o the &s;econd, third, and all the Files, one after another giues fire.</P>
<P>You mu&s;t cau&s;e the fir&s;t ranke to giue fire, and &s;tand, then the &s;econd rancke doth March vp through the fir&s;t rancke and Files with them, and giues fire, and &s;o of all the re&s;t: note that as &s;oone as the &s;econd ranke begins to moue, the body all moues vp to the &s;ame di&s;tance, as their Order was at fir&s;t.</P>
<P><PB N="37" REF="23">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
<HEAD>Right Flanke to the right Hand, and giue fire: Prime on your Re&s;ts.</HEAD>
<HEAD>Right Flanke to the right Hand, and giue fire.</HEAD>
</FIGURE> </P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<PB N="38" REF="24">
<HEAD>The Eighth Order.</HEAD>
<P>Clo&s;ing your Diui&s;ion, you cau&s;e the Compa|ny to March, and commaund them, make ready all together, then you giue the Word of Com|mand to them, as &s;oone as they haue di&s;charged, they mu&s;t Countermarch to the reare; this Or|der is getting ground, all one with the fir&s;t Order, &s;aue one marcheth and getteth ground, the other &s;tandeth and loo&s;eth ground.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>The Ninth Order.</HEAD>
<P>The Captaine commaunds them to make rea|die altogether, then &s;aith to the fir&s;t ranke,
<HI>Giue fire,</HI> which done, the one halfe of the Pikes mar|cheth through the mid&s;t of the body, which for that end is deuided, euery man falling into his owne File; this Order is &s;tanding, and moues on|ly by rankes.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>The Tenth Order.</HEAD>
<P>As you are marching, the right flanke &s;tands &s;till, and the &s;econd File, which is next vnto doubles him, and then they turne to the right hand, and giues fire, pre&s;ently vpon that they fall into their fir&s;t Order, and primes vpon their re&s;t, vntill the re&s;t of the Company bee cleare of them, and then the two vtmo&s;t files againe doth the like; looke vpon the &s;ixt Order, and there is no difference, but onely &s;till in doubling the flanckes.</P>
<P><PB N="39" REF="24">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
<HEAD>Fir&s;t Ranke giue Fire and Countermarch to the Reare.</HEAD>
<HEAD>Fir&s;t Ranke giue Fire.</HEAD>
<HEAD>Fir&s;t File to your right Hand, double your Flanke, and giue fire.</HEAD>
</FIGURE> </P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<PB N="40" REF="25">
<HEAD>The Eleuenth Order.</HEAD>
<P>This Order differeth nothing from the la&s;t, but onely the action mu&s;t bee performed on the left hand.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>The Twelfth Order.</HEAD>
<P>Fir&s;t, you mu&s;t cau&s;e the &s;econd rancke to double the fir&s;t; then commaund them as they were; next, make them two rankes to Counter|march: &s;o of all the re&s;t.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>The Thirteenth Order.</HEAD>
<P>Let the fir&s;t rancke giue Fire, and Counter|march, the &s;econd mu&s;t March vp where the front was before, and giue fire as the fir&s;t did, and &s;o of all the re&s;t.</P>
<P><PB N="41" REF="25">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
<HEAD>Fir&s;t File to your left Hand, double your Flanke, and giue fire.</HEAD>
<HEAD>Fir&s;t and &s;econd Ranke make ready, &s;econd Ranke double your Front, and giue Fire.</HEAD>
<HEAD>Fir&s;t Ranke giue Fire, and Countermarch to the Reare.</HEAD>
</FIGURE> </P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<PB N="42" REF="26">
<HEAD>The Fourteenth Order.</HEAD>
<P>The &s;econd, third, and fourth Rankes, mu&s;t March vp, and giue Fire, and Countermarch; &s;o likewi&s;e the &s;ame Word of commaund, mu&s;t bee v&s;ed &s;till to make them fall into a &s;quare, &s;o &s;hall you haue a &s;quare Battalia out of a Diamond, thus.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>The Fifteenth Order.</HEAD>
<P>To this Order, there is no more but commaund them giue fire, and Countermarch, and they will fall into the &s;ame Order as they did before, if you would get ground, they mu&s;t March, if loo&s;e ground, they mu&s;t &s;tand &s;till.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>The Sixteenth Order.</HEAD>
<P>Looke in the fifteenth Order, and as you did that, &s;o mu&s;t you doe this without any alteration, ob&s;eruing that eight giue fire at one time, and no more.</P>
<P><PB N="43" REF="26">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
<HEAD>Right and left hand files of the &s;econd, third, and <HI>fourth Ranke march vp, giue fire, and counter-march to the Reare.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD>Fir&s;t Ranke giue fire, and Counter-march.</HEAD>
<HEAD>Fir&s;t Ranke giue fire and Countermarch to make a Square.</HEAD>
</FIGURE> </P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<PB N="44" REF="27">
<HEAD>The Seuenteenth Order.</HEAD>
<P>The rankes mu&s;t be ten foote a&s;under if the files be fiue, if &s;ixe, then they mu&s;t be twelue, and as &s;oone as you haue giuen the word of Command, they fall into one file, the right hand flanke &s;tand|ing &s;till, onely turning his face to the right hand, and &s;o likewi&s;e if any occa&s;ion &s;erue, you may performe it on the left hand, as followeth in the next Order.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>The Eighteenth Order.</HEAD>
<P>The &s;ame Order you ob&s;erued on the right, the like mu&s;t you doe on the left; remember that the files when they doe this, mu&s;t be in their clo&s;e&s;t Order: al&s;o if you haue any occa&s;ion, you may doe it both wayes at once by making a diui&s;ion in the mid&s;t, the word of Command, is <HI>Rankes to your right and left hand,</HI> by Conuer&s;ion, but then your files mu&s;t be euen, as foure, or &s;ixe, or eight, or any other euen number, the which is perfor|med in the next following Order.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>Ranks to your right and left hand by Conuer&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>This Order is done by making a deui&s;ion in the middle, to charge the Enemie vpon both flankes, or for to make a lane for great Ordnance, to play betweene them, and is no more but to cau&s;e them to be done at once, iu&s;t as the former is, onely you mu&s;t turne to the right and left hand in your Conuer&s;ion. Some doe hold that the proper word is, <HI>Wheele to the right and left hand,</HI> now you are acquainted with both, choo&s;e of the two which you li&s;t.</P>
<P><PB N="45" REF="27">
<FIGURE>
<HEAD>Rankes to the right Hand by Conuer&s;ion and giue fire.</HEAD>
</FIGURE>
<FIGURE>
<HEAD>Rankes to your left Hand by Conuer&s;ion and giue Fire.</HEAD>
</FIGURE>
<FIGURE>
<HEAD>Rankes to your right and left Hand by Con|uer&s;ion, and giue Fire.</HEAD>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<PB N="46" REF="28">
<HEAD>Deui&s;ions of Pikes and Muskatieres to your right and left hand by Conuer&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>Make two deui&s;ions of Pikes, and two of Mu&s;|kets, then the Pikes next to the right hand deui|&s;ion, of that mu&s;t turne to the right flanke of Mu&s;|katieres by Conuer&s;ion, and the Pikes next the left flanke of that, mu&s;t conuert them&s;elues to that deui&s;ion, and the Shot al&s;o, as they did in the precedent Order, &s;o &s;hall you make of twenty files but foure files onely.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>The Twentieth Order.</HEAD>
<P>If you plea&s;e you may di&s;charge by doubling your rankes, or by fingling; as you &s;ee occa&s;ion you mu&s;t commaund them to make ready altoge|ther, this Order is of great force.</P>
<P><PB N="47" REF="28">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
<HEAD>Deui&s;ions of Pikes and Muskatiers to your Right and Lelft hand by Conuer&s;ion.</HEAD>
<HEAD>Frontiers giue fire, and fall off through Deui&s;ions.</HEAD>
</FIGURE> </P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="48" REF="29">
<HEAD>How to reduce a Diamond out of a Square, and al&s;o out of a Diamond, <HI>into a trianguler forme.</HI></HEAD>
<P>If you are di&s;po&s;ed to turne a &s;quare into a Dia|mond, looke vpon this figure, and you may ea&s;ily performe it, it is no more but to turne their faces to him that leades the right or left hand file, and &s;o march with the Corner forwards: Likewi&s;e out of a Diamond to make &s;uddenly a triangle: fir&s;t <HI>I</HI> as you &s;ee marcheth vp to make euen with <HI>D</HI> and
<HI>K,</HI> then <HI>N O,</HI> the re&s;t as you &s;ee it perfor|med in the figure: note that any iu&s;t &s;quare will make a Diamond, and out of a Diamond a trian|gular fa&s;hion, and no other number will make them but a iu&s;t &s;quare.</P>
<P><PB N="49" REF="29">
<FIGURE>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="50" REF="30">
<HEAD>The rea&s;on I &s;et downe here &s;o many &s;euerall &s;orts of Battalias, is, becau&s;e you mu&s;t when you Imbattell, order them accor|ding to the &s;cituation, wherefore you cannot ob|&s;erue one order, therefore as you finde cau&s;e take choy&s;e, for variety is neuer hurtfull.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>The fir&s;t Battalia of Pikes and Muskets.</HEAD>
<P>The &s;quare that you &s;ee marked with <HI>A,</HI> mu&s;t be 49. Pikes, &s;eauen times &s;eauen, and three in the reare; the two flankes marked with <HI>B</HI> 18. a peece, which are three files, and &s;ixe deepe, the reare <HI>C</HI> &s;eauen files, and three deepe.</P>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>100.</HEAD>
<P>The &s;quare <HI>A</HI> in the &s;econd Battalia, is 49. who&s;e roote is &s;eauen, the front
<HI>B</HI> is &s;eauen files and three deepe; the two flankes <HI>C</HI> are three files a peece, and &s;ixe deepe.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>204.</HEAD>
<P>The Diamond in the mid&s;t <HI>A,</HI> mu&s;t be 84. be|ginning fir&s;t with two, next with foure, and &s;o Diamond wi&s;e, vntill you come vnto 84. the foure cro&s;&s;es <HI>B,</HI> flankes
30. a peece, fiue in file, and &s;ixe deepe.</P>
<P><PB N="51" REF="30" MS="y">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="52" REF="31">
<HEAD>200.</HEAD>
<P>The Border that mu&s;t goe round the &s;quare <HI>A,</HI> mu&s;t containe 90. Pikes, the vppermo&s;t mu&s;t haue 11. Files, and three deepe, the lowermo&s;t as ma|ny, placed in the &s;ame manner, flankt with three Files, and foure deepe, the odde you mu&s;t place in the front and reare, which are ten: the wings of Muskets <HI>B</HI> are foure Files, and ten deepe, at the front and reare of the Pikes <HI>C,</HI> are fiue Files, and two deepe: when you &s;ee cau&s;e, the Shott may retire in within the Pikes, and when you li&s;t i&s;&s;ue out againe; the mid&s;t of the Battalia marked with <HI>D</HI> are empty for the Shott to retire in.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>301.</HEAD>
<P>The front <HI>A,</HI> reare <HI>C,</HI> and both wings <HI>B</HI> and <HI>D</HI> are Muskateres, the la&s;t ranke of Muskets (I meane of euery flanke) are mixt and rankt with Pikes, there are three Files of Muskets eleuen deepe, the Pikes <HI>E</HI> are 13. &s;quare, charging to euery corner of the Battalia, as you may perceiue by the forme of the Battalia; when you plea&s;e the Shott may retreat in within the Pikes, from any noyance of Hor&s;e.</P>
<P><PB N="53" REF="31" MS="y">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="54" REF="32">
<HEAD>392.</HEAD>
<P>The &s;quare <HI>A</HI> of Pikes twenty rankes, the files tenne, which is 195. the halfe Diamonds <HI>B</HI> in the front and reare 36. a peece, the ground ranke eleuen, the next nine, and &s;o vntill they be 36. the &s;ixe wings <HI>C</HI> on the flanks twenty, each one fiue files, and foure deepe.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>400.</HEAD>
<P>The long &s;quare of Pikes <HI>A</HI> are ten rankes, the files twenty, the both flankes
<HI>B</HI> of Muskets 80. foure files, and ten deepe, the &s;ixe loo&s;e wings <HI>C</HI> 120. foure files, and fiue deepe, the En&s;ignes in all manner of Battalias in the mid&s;t.</P>
<P><PB N="55" REF="32" MS="y">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="56" REF="33">
<HEAD>506.</HEAD>
<P>The Pikes <HI>A</HI> &s;ixteene &s;quare, the Forlorne Hope <HI>B</HI> 55. that is foure rankes, and eleuen in file, the reare <HI>C</HI> as much more, the foure &s;mall wings <HI>D</HI> in the corners fifteene a peece, fiue files and foure deepe, the foure other wings <HI>E</HI> in the flanks are fiue Files, and foure deepe al&s;o.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>600.</HEAD>
<P>The two &s;quadrons of Pikes <HI>A</HI> and <HI>B,</HI> are 144. a peece, eighteene Files, and eight deepe, which amount vnto 288. the twelue odde Pikes place in the reare of the la&s;t deui&s;ion of Pikes, the deui&s;i|ons of Shott in the front <HI>C,</HI> are 64. a peece, that is &s;ixteene files and foure deepe, the flankes <HI>D</HI> are eight files, and fourteene deepe, which are 236. the foure odde place in the reare.</P>
<P><PB N="57" REF="33" MS="y">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="58" REF="34">
<HEAD>511.</HEAD>
<P>The Pikes <HI>A</HI> are 21. files, and thirteene deepe, the two halfe Diamonds <HI>B</HI> 49. a peece, the foure &s;mall wings at the corners <HI>C</HI> fifteen a peece three files, and fiue deepe, the foure greater <HI>D</HI> are twen|ty files, and foure deepe.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>714.</HEAD>
<P>The Pikes <HI>A</HI> are eighteene &s;quare, and the re|mainder 26. the wings of Shot marked with <HI>B</HI> are eight, &s;ixe files, and eight deepe a peece.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>750.</HEAD>
<P>The two long &s;quares <HI>A B</HI> of Pikes in the mid&s;t, are 180. each one fiue files and eighteene deepe, and tenne odde Pikes, the two flankes of Mu&s;|kets <HI>C</HI> are 90. a peece &s;ixe files, and fifteene deepe, the foure long &s;quares <HI>D</HI> in the front 180. that is 45. a peece, fiue files, and nine deepe.</P>
<P><PB N="59" REF="34" MS="y">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="60" REF="35">
<HEAD>800.</HEAD>
<P>The Pikes <HI>A B C D</HI> are 400. twenty files, and fiue deepe, 100. in euery &s;quadron, the wings of Shot <HI>E</HI> fifty a peece, fiue files, ten deepe: this Order and all the re&s;t where you &s;ee the Shot pla|ced round about the Pikes, are to be v&s;ed where you are &s;urrounded by the Enemie.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>900.</HEAD>
<P>The Pikes <HI>A</HI> are 21. &s;quare, and nine odde, the Muskatieres mu&s;t bee 108. in euery &s;quare 8, 36&punc; that is &s;ixe &s;quare, the long &s;quares <HI>C</HI> 36. more, foure files, and nine deepe, which are in all 444. the odde &s;ixe.</P>
<P><PB N="61" REF="35" MS="y">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="62" REF="36">
<HEAD>1500.</HEAD>
<P>The great &s;quadron <HI>A</HI> of Pikes 27. &s;quare, the reare <HI>B</HI> of Shott 300. thirty files, and ten deepe, the Forlorne Hope <HI>C</HI> fifty, fiue files, and tenne deepe, the foure other wings <HI>D</HI> 100. which is ten &s;quare, there are thirty odde Pikes.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>2000.</HEAD>
<P>The foure long &s;quadrons of Pikes <HI>A</HI> are 250. a peece, twenty files, and tenne deepe, the foure long &s;quares <HI>B</HI> of Muskets, are tenne files, and twelue deepe, which are 480. the &s;ixe le&s;&s;er <HI>C</HI> which are in the Forlorne Hope and reare, are nine a peece &s;quare, the two little &s;quares <HI>D</HI> are eight a peece, two in files, and foure deepe.</P>
<P><PB N="63" REF="36" MS="y">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="64" REF="37">
<HEAD>1000.</HEAD>
<P>The &s;quare <HI>A</HI> in the middle are 22. Pikes euery way, the halfe Moones <HI>B</HI> are
100. a peece, files fiue, and ten deepe, in one deui&s;ion, the long wings <HI>C</HI> in the mid&s;t of the halfe, Moones are &s;ix files, foure deepe.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>1200.</HEAD>
<P>The foure &s;quares or &s;quadrons <HI>A B C D</HI> of Pikes, are 144. a peece, twelue &s;quare, the odde Pikes are 24. the foure triangular &s;quadrons <HI>E</HI> of Shot, are 72. a peece, the ground ranke &s;ixteene, the next fourteene, and le&s;&s;en euery ranke by two, which foure winges or &s;quadrons are 288. the foure long &s;quares <HI>F</HI> are 77. a peece, &s;eauen files, and eleuen rankes, and foure odde Muskatieres vnplaced.</P>
<P><PB N="65" REF="37" MS="y">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="66" REF="38">
<HEAD>4500.</HEAD>
<P>The two &s;quares <HI>A B</HI> mu&s;t bee thirty three a peece &s;quare, the remainder of Pikes are 36. the two flankes of Shot <HI>C,</HI> 300. a peece, twelue files, and twenty fiue deepe, the foure wings <HI>D</HI> in the front 361. a peece, nineteene &s;quare, the reare <HI>E</HI> are 206. Pikes, twenty files, and ten deepe, there are &s;ixe odde Pikes.</P>
<P>The great &s;quare <HI>A</HI> mu&s;t be fifty &s;quare, euery one of the wings <HI>B</HI> 200. a peece, ten file, and twen|tie deepe, the &s;mall wings in the front and reare <HI>C,</HI> which are &s;quares, are 196. a peece, fourteene &s;quare, the foure le&s;&s;er wings <HI>D</HI> in the right, and left hand flanke, are 56. a peece, &s;eauen files, and eight deepe, and one odde Muskatiere.</P>
<P><PB N="67" REF="38" MS="y">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="68" REF="39">
<HEAD>3000.</HEAD>
<P>The Pikes <HI>A</HI> which are in the mid&s;t, I meane the long &s;quare are thirty files, and fifty deepe, which are 1500. the two flankes <HI>C D</HI> of Muskets on the right and left of the Pikes are 420. each one, that is &s;ix files, and 70. deepe, the two &s;quares at the front and reare <HI>D</HI> are al&s;o 600. ten files, and thirty deepe, there are 60. &s;hot remaining, which mu&s;t be placed in the front or reare.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>4000.</HEAD>
<P>The &s;quadrons of Pikes innermo&s;t, <HI>A</HI> are fif|teene &s;quare, and the odde Pikes are
224. which are placed in the mid&s;t to guard the En&s;ignes, the Shot are all in the out&s;ide, and are as many more &s;quare; likewi&s;e the remainder of them are 208. if you note it, the Muskets may i&s;&s;ue or retreat in within the Pikes vpon any occa&s;ion, al&s;o the re|mainder of Pikes and Shot, may be placed in the mid&s;t <HI>C</HI> to guard the En&s;ignes.</P>
<P><PB N="69" REF="39" MS="y">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="70" REF="40">
<HEAD>6000.</HEAD>
<P>The long &s;quares that are like vnto a Cro&s;&s;e, are 510. a peece, fifteene in file, and 35. rankes, which are foure of them, that is in all 2040. the long &s;quares <HI>B</HI> adioyning, are tenne files, and 24. deepe; the eight &s;quares <HI>C</HI> that you &s;ee placed by the heads of the Cro&s;&s;es, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">e Muskatieres, and are thirteene files, and fourteene deepe, 48. remai|ning, the twelue other wings <HI>D</HI> that are placed betwixt the heads of the Cro&s;&s;es are 126. a peece, nine files, and fourteene deepe; but out of the 48. odde men, you mu&s;t borrow twelue to make vp your full number.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>6690.</HEAD>
<P>The foure middle &s;quadrons of Pikes <HI>A B C D</HI> are 860. a peece, 43. files, and twenty deepe, the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">wo flankes <HI>E</HI> of Muskatieres, are thirty files, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">fty deepe, the two bigger &s;quares <HI>F</HI> in the front, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> one hundred a peece, ten &s;quare, the lea&s;t <HI>G,</HI> at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">e head of them two are fifty, fiue files, and ten
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">eepe.</P>
<P><PB N="71" REF="40" MS="y">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="72" REF="41">
<HEAD>9000.</HEAD>
<P>The eight &s;quares <HI>A</HI> in the mid&s;t, are 460. a peece, two files, and 28. deepe, the odde Pikes are &s;ixteene, all the out wings noted with <HI>B</HI> are Mu&s;|katieres, twenty files, and 28. deepe, and as many Shot vnplaced, the Shot may retire through the lanes and galleries of the Pikes, then may the Pikes ioyne the longe&s;t wayes together, and make a iu&s;t &s;quare to inuiron the Pikes; and a|gaine when you &s;ee cau&s;e, forme your &s;elues after this manner againe to skirmi&s;h with your Shott, this fa&s;hion may be v&s;ed with any number.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>10000.</HEAD>
<P>All tho&s;e &s;quares you &s;ee within the circle no|ted with <HI>A B C</HI> are &s;quadrons of Pikes, the foure great long &s;quares mu&s;t be 936. a peece, 36. files, and 26. deepe, the foure other long &s;quares <HI>B</HI> are 206. a peece, twenty files, and tenne deepe, the &s;quares at the corners <HI>C</HI> are 100. a peece, tenne &s;quare. The Shott are all placed without the cir|cumference noted with <HI>D,</HI> and doe containe 24. wings that will doe &s;eruice all at one time with|out the hinderance one of another, two hundred each one, ten files, and twenty deepe, the remain|der two hundred: vpon any occa&s;ion, the wings of Shott may retire within the &s;quadrons of Pikes, and the Pikes but &s;traighten their &s;qua|drons, will make a iu&s;t &s;quare to &s;ecure and inpall the Shot from any anoyance of Hor&s;e.</P>
<P><PB N="73" REF="41" MS="y">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="74" REF="42">
<HEAD>11000.</HEAD>
<P>The halfe Moone Battalia <HI>A</HI> is 5400. twenty files, and 270 deepe, the odde hundred is placed in the &s;quare <HI>B</HI> within the halfe Moone, to &s;hut vp the Muskets, when the fury of the Hor&s;e &s;hall force them to retreat within the Pikes, the two longe&s;t &s;quares
<HI>C</HI> are 1000 a peece, twenty files, and fifty deepe, the foure other long &s;quares
<HI>D</HI> are 34 files, and 22 deepe, and eight vnplaced, the foure le&s;&s;er wings <HI>E</HI> in the middle of the fourela&s;t named, are 120 a peece, eight files, and twelue deepe, be&s;ides twenty vnplaced.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>12000.</HEAD>
<P>The two middle mo&s;t &s;quadrons with the foure corner &s;quadrons marked with <HI>P</HI> are Pikes, the o|ther &s;ixe marked with <HI>M</HI> are Muskets, and are 1000 a peece, wanting 39 each &s;quadron and wing, which are in all 468, tho&s;e you may im|ploy for the guard of the Artillery, or in &s;mall wings at your plea&s;ure.</P>
<P><PB N="75" REF="42" MS="y">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="76" REF="43">
<HEAD>14000.</HEAD>
<P>The three Battalias or Squadrons of Pikes <HI>A</HI> are in the mid&s;t, and are 2310 a peece,
77 files, and thirty deepe, the odde Pikes 70, the Forlorne <HI>B</HI> and reare 1750 a peece, 70 files, and 25 deepe, the foure flankers <HI>C</HI> are 870 a peece, ten files, and 57 deepe, there are twenty Muskatieres to be &s;pa|red, the Hargabu&s;ers <HI>D</HI> are 200, Lances <HI>E</HI>
200, and the light Hor&s;e <HI>F</HI> as many.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>16000.</HEAD>
<P>The great &s;quare <HI>A</HI> in the middle is 77 &s;quare, which &s;ome is 5929, and 71 vnplaced, the vt|mo&s;t Pikes <HI>B</HI> that doe impall, the foure &s;quares, and the eight long &s;quadrons of Shot are 2000, fiue in file, and 100 deepe, the Forlorne Hope are 2100, one hundred in euery &s;quare, the reare 2000 more &s;quared, as the others are halfe Dia|mond way, the foure &s;quares <HI>D</HI> in the corners are 96 a peece, fourteene &s;quare, there are &s;ixteene vnplaced, the eight long &s;quares are 385, each one 77 files, and fiue deepe: The Hor&s;e
<HI>E</HI> 6000, a thou&s;and in each wing.</P>
<P><PB N="77" REF="43" MS="y">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="78" REF="44" MS="y">
<HEAD>20000.</HEAD>
<P>The foure &s;quadrons <HI>A</HI> in the mid&s;t, are 961 a peece, that is 31. &s;quare, the Impall <HI>B</HI> are 4000 which is ten files, and 100 deepe, the &s;quares <HI>C</HI> that comes from the Impalment <HI>B</HI> to the foure &s;quares <HI>A</HI> in the mid&s;t, are 1600, one hundred in euery &s;quare, the long &s;quare <HI>I</HI> in the foote is 300, ten deepe, and 30 files, the remainder 356 to guard the Ordnance, the flankes <HI>D E</HI> and reare of Shot 3000, ten files, and 100 deepe, the Forlorne Hope <HI>G</HI> 3000, an hundred each one; the foure &s;quares <HI>H</HI> as the corners 441, twenty one &s;quare a peece, the remainder 236, you may v&s;e as many Hor&s;e as you plea&s;e, and place them at the let|ter <HI>K.</HI></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>22000.</HEAD>
<P>The triangular Forlorne Hope <HI>A</HI> are 3600, a hundred in euery &s;quare, the two wings
<HI>B</HI> 800 a peece, the reare <HI>C</HI> triangular forme 2800, the wings <HI>D</HI> are al&s;o
800 a peece, the long &s;quares <HI>E</HI> that flanke the Pikes 1400, which are 700 a peece, &s;eauen files, and 100 deepe, the foure &s;qua|drons marked with <HI>F</HI> of Pikes, are 10304 each one, are 1156, which are 24 &s;quare, the Hor&s;e <HI>G</HI> 1000 a peece, and vpon any occa&s;ion the reare may march vp through the lanes and galleries of the Squadrons of Pikes, to a&s;&s;i&s;t the Forlorne, and the Forlorne to retire backe, the odde Pikes are to clo&s;e in the galleries of Pikes, and to defend the Shot from the anoyance of the Enemies Hor&s;e.</P>
<P><PB N="79" REF="44" MS="y">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="80" REF="45">
<HEAD>30400.</HEAD>
<P>Euery one of the little &s;quares are 100 men, ten &s;quare, the long &s;quadrons of Pikes
<HI>A</HI> 2500 a peece, 25 files, and 100 deepe, the foure corners <HI>B,</HI> which are like right angles, are 1000 a peece, fifty files, and twenty deepe, the &s;quares <HI>C</HI> in the cor|ners, are 225 a peece, fifteene &s;quare, the remain|der are 100, by the figure here placed, you may plainely &s;ee how the Muskatieres may i&s;&s;ue out, and againe retire in within the Pikes, vpon any occa&s;ion as they &s;ee good, and vpon any occa&s;i|on the &s;quadrons of Pikes
<HI>A B C,</HI> may inuiron them in, and pre&s;erue them from the a&s;&s;ault and fury of the Hor&s;e.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>24000.</HEAD>
<P>The Impall <HI>A</HI> is 133 deepe, and fifteene files, which is 5985, the Vanguard of Pikes
<HI>B,</HI> which are eight &s;quadrons, are 37 files, and ten deepe, which are 370 each one, which in all the eight &s;quadrons are 2960, the reareward <HI>C</HI> are deuided into foure &s;quadrons,
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">4 files, and ten deepe each one, which are 750 a peece; the totall of them foure are 3000, the remainder 55. Each of the wings of Shott which are
120 wings, are 100 a peece, ten &s;quare, the Hor&s;e <HI>D</HI> 6000, a thou&s;and in each Troope.</P>
<P><PB N="49" REF="45">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="50" REF="46">
<HEAD>40000.</HEAD>
<P>The three Squadrons <HI>ABC</HI> of Pikes, are 4000, 100 files, and forty deepe, the Impalls
<HI>D</HI> al&s;o are 4000 a peece, forty files, and 100 deepe, the foure wings of Shot in the Forlorne Hope, are 961 a peece, 31 &s;quare, the fiue wings <HI>F</HI> in the front of the fir&s;t Deui&s;ion of Pikes, are 1000 a peece, twenty files, and fifty deepe, the reareward <HI>G</HI> are
1060, that is 53 files, and twenty deep, the vtmo&s;t Impalls <HI>H</HI> are 5000 a peece, fifty files, and 100 deepe, the remainder of Shot are 96: you may v&s;e as many Hor&s;e as you plea&s;e, and place them in the &s;quares noted with <HI>I.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="51" REF="46">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of military formations.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV4>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="52" REF="47">
<HEAD>The proportion of a Campe, or Camps.</HEAD>
<P>I Will onely at this time &s;et downe &s;ome fewe particulars concerning Encamping; note that you ought not to be ruled by the &s;cituation of any place, but let the &s;cituation be ruled by you, by which meanes you may keepe alwayes one man|ner of Encamping, which is a great benefit, for thereby the Souldiers by that meanes will be al|mo&s;t able, their own &s;elues to know where they mu&s;t build their Hutts, e&s;pecially tho&s;e that are neere the Generalls lodging, and tho&s;e of the vt|mo&s;t workes: note that where the &s;cituation wan|teth &s;trength, you mu&s;t &s;upply the &s;ame with Art and indu&s;try: take heede likewi&s;e that where&s;o|euer you encampe, you fore&s;ee that there bee roome enough to range your Bands according to your owne de&s;ired Di&s;cipline. And becau&s;e it is wi&s;edome to deuide the Armed from the Vn|armed, I would therefore &s;eperate the men that be comberd with any thing from the vncombred. Therefore I would lodge all, or the greate&s;t part of the Armed men on the &s;ide towards the Ea&s;t, and vnarmed, and the combred on the We&s;t &s;ide, making Ea&s;t the head, and We&s;t the back part of the Campe, and South, and North, the flankes. The Artillery I would di&s;po&s;e a long the bank of the Trench, and in the &s;pace that &s;hould remaine
<PB N="53" REF="47"> towards the We&s;t, I would lodge the impedement of the Campe, and note that forthwith with cords and &s;taues you may ordaine euery man his lodg|ing, e&s;pecially if you make (as I &s;aid before) your Campe one way. A Generall &s;hould not &s;o much &s;eeke to place his Campe in &s;eates &s;trong by na|ture, as to fortifie them by Art, as well to keepe his Souldiers from idlenes (the only ruine of Armies) as al&s;o that due order in Camps may bee maintai|ned: therefore immitate the ancient Romanes, the very Schoolema&s;ters of the Art of Warre, who neuer coueted other then the plaine to Camp vpon, entrenching them&s;elues nightly in as &s;trong and &s;ure manner, as if the Enemy had encamped by them, and that euen in places vtterly voyde of all &s;u&s;pition, to make the&s;e Millitary trauailes fa|miliar vnto them, and to auoyde tho&s;e idle, or ra|ther di&s;&s;olute effrenate pa&s;times, that our Chri&s;ti|an Camps are &s;till too much bewitched and &s;or|ted withall, to the vtter ruine of all good Millita|rie Di&s;cipline, and confu&s;ion of our Armies. In &s;et|ling of a Campe, be&s;ides the commodities of Wood, Water, and Forage, you mu&s;t al&s;o con|&s;ider how victualls may &s;afely come, and leaue no Ca&s;tles at your back to annoy you, but that you &s;eeke to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them ere you march forward, for great is the annoyance that a little pile at the back of an Army may doe as well again&s;t Forragers, as to cut off Victualers from the Campe. And thus much for Encamping.</P>
<P><PB N="54" REF="48">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Shape of a military camp.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="55" REF="48">
<HEAD>The &s;tronge&s;t and perfects fa&s;hion <HI>of all other for the building of a Curtaine or Wall of a Towne or Fort.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE Circular fa&s;hion is counted the be&s;t, &s;o that the Curtaines or Walls bee made &s;traight, and of &s;uch length, that of the Bul|warkes they may be flanked, which fa&s;hion being made of many Corners, is mo&s;t meete, if it be e|rected in a &s;ufficient place, otherwi&s;e not, for there it mu&s;t be builded with fewe Corners, el&s;e the one Bulwarke will hurt the other: Therefore the farther that they bee made di&s;tant from the Bul|warke (the duelength of the Curtaine being kept) &s;o much the blunter the corners will come to bee, which by them mu&s;t be defended, and the more of tho&s;e Corners that are there in the &s;ame fa&s;hi|on, &s;o much the blunter they &s;hall al&s;o come to bee; likewi&s;e the more men they may haue to de|fend them, and more commodious &s;pace within for to retire, with great and &s;trong fortifications, and the plot formes may bee made much further in, and haue the corners of their Bulwarks blunt, with a large backe, meete for defence, and in an a&s;&s;ault much &s;urer then the &s;harpe, becau&s;e the &s;harpe pointed Bulwarke being batterd, defen|deth the Enemie from the platformes, &s;o that vn|der the &s;ame, being couered, hee may almo&s;t out
<PB N="56" REF="49"> of danger make an a&s;&s;ault, where again&s;t a For|tre&s;&s;e, after the fa&s;hion of the&s;e plots, following in what&s;oeuer part of &s;uch places the Enemie &s;hould anproach marching towards them, to en|campe, or in Battell ray to a&s;&s;ault them, or with Trenches, and Artillery to batter them, either high or low, or by Curraine within, or otherwi&s;e, he &s;hall alwayes from many of tho&s;e flankers of the &s;ame place, be greatly hurt and repul&s;ed, and of the platformes, e&s;pecially more then from any other where, becau&s;e they bee mo&s;t neere, and &s;tand higher then any other, and they &s;hall al&s;o hurt him more when hee &s;hall bee &s;omewhat farre off then neere hand, as may be &s;eene by the plaine plot, that hath the number three; and &s;o much concerning Fortifications for this time.</P>
<P><PB N="57" REF="49">
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Shapes of fortifications.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="58" REF="50">
<HEAD>The manner that is v&s;ed of <HI>La|ding and blowing of great Ordnance.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOra&s;much as if the <HI>Gunners</HI> &s;hould chance to be &s;laine, or otherwi&s;e lacking, to the intent that euery Souldier, in the time of neede, may know how to &s;erue in their places, I haue thought good to &s;hew &s;ometing of the manner of Lading Blowing off, and Di&s;parting of a Peece of Ord|nance. Some doe take &frac23; parts of Powder, &s;ome halfe, and others aboue &frac23; parts; but that Peece mu&s;t bee well fortified that may, or will &s;afely blow out &frac23; parts of Powder of the weight of the Bullet. After you know the quantity of Powder, you mu&s;t put in the &s;oule or concaue of the Peece the &s;aid quantity, with the Ladle, and then when the Ladle comes to the Coyle, turne about your hand, and the Powder will be left be|hinde, then pull out the Ladle, and turne the other ende, and ramm it in &s;oftly, then wadd it after|wards, and la&s;t put in your Bullet, and wadd him likewi&s;e. But note that before you doe any of the&s;e things, you get the di&s;part of the Peece, which is no more to doe then to put a wyre into the touch-hole of the Peece, to the lower part of the concaue, then marke how high the wyre beares vpon the quoile, which marked, pull him out, and place him at the mu&s;&s;ell to the bottome of the Concaue there, and make your Di&s;part
<PB N="59" REF="50"> iu&s;t as high as the notch was at the touch-hole: afterwards place the quoile and the toppe of the Di&s;part in an euen line to the vppermo&s;t marke: Thus haue you the true
<HI>Horizontall</HI> line, or line of Leuell; now for quicke di&s;patch you may make cartreges of Paper, or Linnen baggs, and put a full Charge of Powder in them: So may you make a hole with a
<HI>Gunners</HI> gimlett into the Car|trege, then prime with fine Corner powder, which is more readier to blowe him off: and when ha&s;t requires, you may be the &s;ooner rea|dy vpon any occa&s;ion. Al&s;o Wine or Vineger are the be&s;t things to coole any Peece of Ord|nance when they are hott.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Questions and Rules concerning Great Ordnance.</HEAD>
<P>IF a Saker at Point blancke conuey her Bullet 300. paces, and at the be&s;t of her randome &s;hoote 1500. what will that Cannon doe, which at point blanke &s;hootes 360. paces.</P>
<P>Multiply 1500. by 360. and deuide it by 300. your que&s;tion is an&s;wered.</P>
<P>If a Saker of 4. Inches Diameter weigh 1600. pound weight, what will a Culuerin weigh of 6. Inches Diameter</P>
<P>Multiply the Diameter Cubically, then &s;ay, if
<PB N="60" REF="51"> 64. giue 1600. what will 216. giue<HI>:</HI> Multiply 216. by 1600 your que&s;tion is re&s;olued.</P>
<P>If a Cannon at point blanke range 300 paces, and at the be&s;t of her Randome &s;hoot 1500 paces, how farre &s;hall &s;hee &s;hoot at the mount of one Degree.</P>
<P>Abate 300 from 1500, re&s;ts 1200 which diuided by 45 the quotient is 26&frac23; &s;o many paces &s;hall &s;hee &s;hoot at euery degree.</P>
<P>If a Cannon of 10 foot long bee &s;hot at a marke 700 yeards from the Peece, the di&s;part being planting an inch wide, how farre &s;hall the bullet light wide of the marke.</P>
<P>Looke how many times the length of the Ci|lender or Concaue of the Peece is to the marke, &s;o many inches &s;hall the Peece &s;hoot ami&s;&s;e, be|ing layd ouer or vnder one inche, if the winde be not to rough to alter it.</P>
<P>If you mea&s;ure with a paire of Callaper Com|pa&s;&s;es the greate&s;t height of mettall, at the mo&s;&s;ell of the Peece, and likewi&s;e at the Coyle; abating the le&s;&s;er out of the greater, &frac12; the re|mainder is the iu&s;t di&s;parture.</P>
<P>It is a general rule, that look how much a Peece is thicker of mettall in any one &s;ide at the quoyle then at the thicke&s;t part of the mu&s;&s;ell<HI>:</HI> as al&s;o, looke how many times the length of the Peece is to the Marke; &s;o many times that ouerplus of thickene&s;&s;e &s;hall the bullet flye ouer the marke, being no higher then the Peece, and the Peece
<PB N="61" REF="51"> blowne off without her di&s;parture.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>How to make Granados to &s;hoote in a Peece of Ordnance.</HEAD>
<P>THe Balles of mettall mu&s;t be of the bigne&s;&s;e of the Peeces concaue, and a quarter of an Inch thicke, made three parts of Bra&s;&s;e, and one part of Tinne, but the Bra&s;&s;e ought to bee mel|ted before the Tinn bee put to it; which Balles you mu&s;t fill halfe full of fine powder, and the o|ther halfe full of gro&s;&s;er powder mingled vvith Ro&s;en vvell beaten: &s;o that for three parts of gro&s;&s;e powder, there be one part of Ro&s;en, and then putting in the holes &s;ome &s;mall Corne pow|der to make the re&s;t fire, and after they be fired, and throwne, they will breake and flye into a thou&s;and pieces, and both hurt and kill whom&s;o|euer are neere them.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="62" REF="52">
<HEAD>How to find out the &s;quare Root; of any number by this Table from 16 to 10000.</HEAD>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Number.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Roote</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Square</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Remainder</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>25</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>25</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>36</CELL>
<CELL>6</CELL>
<CELL>3</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>49</CELL>
<CELL>7</CELL>
<CELL>46</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>64</CELL>
<CELL>8</CELL>
<CELL>64</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>81</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
<CELL>81</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>100</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>100</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>150</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
<CELL>121</CELL>
<CELL>29</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>200</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
<CELL>196</CELL>
<CELL>4</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>250</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>225</CELL>
<CELL>25</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>300</CELL>
<CELL>17</CELL>
<CELL>289</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>350</CELL>
<CELL>18</CELL>
<CELL>324</CELL>
<CELL>26</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>400</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>400</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>450</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
<CELL>441</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>500</CELL>
<CELL>22</CELL>
<CELL>484</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>500</CELL>
<CELL>23</CELL>
<CELL>529</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>600</CELL>
<CELL>24</CELL>
<CELL>576</CELL>
<CELL>24</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>650</CELL>
<CELL>25</CELL>
<CELL>625</CELL>
<CELL>25</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>700</CELL>
<CELL>26</CELL>
<CELL>676</CELL>
<CELL>24</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>750</CELL>
<CELL>27</CELL>
<CELL>729</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>800</CELL>
<CELL>28</CELL>
<CELL>784</CELL>
<CELL>16</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>850</CELL>
<CELL>29</CELL>
<CELL>841</CELL>
<CELL>9</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>900</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
<CELL>900</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>950</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
<CELL>900</CELL>
<CELL>50</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1000</CELL>
<CELL>31</CELL>
<CELL>961</CELL>
<CELL>39</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1100.</CELL>
<CELL>32</CELL>
<CELL>1024</CELL>
<CELL>76</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><PB N="63" REF="52">1200</CELL>
<CELL>33</CELL>
<CELL>1156</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1300</CELL>
<CELL>34</CELL>
<CELL>1225</CELL>
<CELL>44</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1400</CELL>
<CELL>37</CELL>
<CELL>1369</CELL>
<CELL>74</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1500</CELL>
<CELL>38</CELL>
<CELL>1444</CELL>
<CELL>31</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1600</CELL>
<CELL>40</CELL>
<CELL>1680</CELL>
<CELL>56</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1700</CELL>
<CELL>41</CELL>
<CELL>1681</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1800</CELL>
<CELL>42</CELL>
<CELL>1764</CELL>
<CELL>19</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1900</CELL>
<CELL>43</CELL>
<CELL>1849</CELL>
<CELL>36</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2000</CELL>
<CELL>44</CELL>
<CELL>1936</CELL>
<CELL>64</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2200</CELL>
<CELL>46</CELL>
<CELL>2116</CELL>
<CELL>84</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2400</CELL>
<CELL>48</CELL>
<CELL>2304</CELL>
<CELL>96</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2600</CELL>
<CELL>50</CELL>
<CELL>2500</CELL>
<CELL>100</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2800</CELL>
<CELL>52</CELL>
<CELL>2704</CELL>
<CELL>96</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3000</CELL>
<CELL>54</CELL>
<CELL>2916</CELL>
<CELL>84</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3500</CELL>
<CELL>59</CELL>
<CELL>3481</CELL>
<CELL>19</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>4000</CELL>
<CELL>63</CELL>
<CELL>3969</CELL>
<CELL>31</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>4500</CELL>
<CELL>67</CELL>
<CELL>4489</CELL>
<CELL>11</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>5000</CELL>
<CELL>70</CELL>
<CELL>4900</CELL>
<CELL>110</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>5500</CELL>
<CELL>74</CELL>
<CELL>5476</CELL>
<CELL>24</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>6000</CELL>
<CELL>77</CELL>
<CELL>5929</CELL>
<CELL>71</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>6500</CELL>
<CELL>80</CELL>
<CELL>6400</CELL>
<CELL>100</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>7000</CELL>
<CELL>83</CELL>
<CELL>6889</CELL>
<CELL>111</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>7500</CELL>
<CELL>86</CELL>
<CELL>7396</CELL>
<CELL>104</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>8000</CELL>
<CELL>89</CELL>
<CELL>79<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">1</CELL>
<CELL>79</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>8500</CELL>
<CELL>92</CELL>
<CELL>8464</CELL>
<CELL>36</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>9000</CELL>
<CELL>94</CELL>
<CELL>8836</CELL>
<CELL>164</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>9000</CELL>
<CELL>97</CELL>
<CELL>94<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">9</CELL>
<CELL>21</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>10000</CELL>
<CELL>100</CELL>
<CELL>10<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">00</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><PB N="64" REF="53"> And &s;o you may proceede infinitely, but now the meanes to extract the roote of any number, is thus found: Suppo&s;e your number to be 200, fir&s;t you mu&s;t put a prick in euery odde place, begin|ning fir&s;t on the right hand with the fir&s;t, third, fift, and &s;o continue vntill you come to the end of the number, except the la&s;t, which &s;omtimes hath but one.</P>
<P>Secondly, marke the numbers that belong vnto the la&s;t prick towards the left hand: Or whether he haue belonging vnto him one number or two, looke the roote of that number if it be &s;quare, and that roote &s;et by a crooked line, as you place the quotient in deui&s;ion, and can&s;ell all that &s;quare number belonging to that prick.</P>
<P>But if the number belonging to that prick bee not a &s;quare number, then take the roote of the greate&s;t &s;quare, which is contained in it, and place the roote as I &s;aid before, and the &s;quare of it &s;hall you abate from the number which belong to the la&s;t &amp; prick, let the re&s;t be &s;et ouer tho&s;e numbers cancelled, as you doe in deui&s;ion, and &s;o haue you ended that prick, then in the &s;ame manner goe forward with the re&s;t. As for example 200, you place your prickes fir&s;t on the cipher next your right hand, the next 2 the fir&s;t figure, then I aske what is the roote of 2, and I finde 1, there|fore I put that in my quotient, and &s;ub&s;tract it out of 2, and there remaines 1, then I double the quo|tient, and it is 2 that I place &s;till betweene the two
<PB N="65" REF="53"> pricks, then I aske how many times 2 is in 10, and I finde 4 that I put al&s;o in my quotient, and &s;ub|&s;tract it out of 10, then remaines 2, now I &s;quare the la&s;t figure
4, &s;aying 4 times 4 is 16, which I &s;ub&s;tract al&s;o out of 20, the remainder is 4, which is the true&s;t and &s;peedie&s;t way of all.</P>
<P>Here I will produce &s;ome que&s;tions of Arith|metick, which &s;hall be to the purpo&s;e wee haue in hand, and al&s;o to &s;hew and make manife&s;t vnto you, how nece&s;&s;ary it is for euery Souldier, whe|ther he be Captaine, Lieutenant, or other Officer what&s;oeuer that followes the Warres, to haue good skill in the depth of Arithmetick, as in the extraction of rootes, and al&s;o in the Rule of <HI>Algebra.</HI></P>
<P>1 A Captaine Generall hauing three great Armies, would ca&s;t them into three &s;quare Bat|tels, but he knoweth not how many men he &s;hall &s;et in the front of each Battell. The numbers of the three Armies are the&s;e: of the fir&s;t there are 5625, the &s;econd are 9216, the third
15129.</P>
<P>Now you mu&s;t &s;earch out the &s;quare roote by the former rules, &s;o &s;hall you haue the an&s;wer.</P>
<P>2 A Prince hath an Army very great, with which he pa&s;&s;eth in a valewe, &s;o that in marching the Front can be but 18 men, and by that meanes the flanke containeth
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">49352. After that the Ar|mie hath pa&s;&s;ed that valewe, the King minding to occupie all the be&s;t ground, willeth the Battell to be &s;et &s;quare.</P>
<P><PB N="66" REF="54"> You mu&s;t multiply the flanke by the front, and then your number will be
8088336, and extract the roote, and you &s;hall haue 2844 for your &s;quare roote.</P>
<P>A Citie &s;hould be &s;caled being double ditched, and the inner ditch 32 foote broad, and the wall 21 foote high: the Captaine commandeth skal|ling Ladders to be made of the iu&s;t height, that would reach from the vtter browe of the inner ditch, to the top of the wall, as in this figure is partly expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>As thus 32 multiplied in it &s;elfe 1024, then 21 multiplied by it &s;elfe maketh 441, now you mu&s;t adde both the&s;e &s;ummes together, and there make 146<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">, then extract the roote which is 3812/76, and that is the iu&s;t length of the line <HI>A C.</HI></P>
<P>Note al&s;o this, that if at any time you haue oc|ca&s;ion to double any &s;quare as a &s;quare battaile, or a &s;quare Campe: you mu&s;t take the &s;ide of that &s;quare, which you would double &s;uppo&s;e that battell was before 210: now you haue as ma|ny more Souldiers as you had, therefore you mu&s;t double it, the way to double either, the ground or men is thus, multiply 210 by it &s;elfe, and thereof commeth 44100. that mu&s;t I double 88200, the roote of which number extracted, is the double
<PB N="67" REF="54"> and iu&s;t &s;quare of that number which you had be|fore 296.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">84/296.</P>
<P>And hereby you may perceiue the ouer&s;ight of many men, which being required to double a &s;quare plot, doe double the &s;ide of it, thinking it ea&s;ily done.</P>
<P>But if they marke it well, he may perceiue that they doe make by that meanes a &s;quare 4 times, as bigge as their fir&s;t figure, was as by this figure any man may &s;ee.</P>
<P>A peece of Ordnance of 6 inches Diameter in the &s;oule, doth carrie a Bullet of 20 pound waight, what waight &s;hall that Bullet be, that &s;erueth for a peece of Ordnance of 14 inches in the &s;oule.</P>
<P>Note that all Globes beare together triple that propo&s;ition, that their Diameters doe: So in this example, the proportion of their Diameter being as 14 to 6, or as 7 to 3, I mu&s;t triple it, and then haue I the proportion of their Globes.</P>
<P>Wherfore I &s;et the three fractions thus 777/333, and there make 34<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">/27, that is 1219/27, and &s;o are the pro|portions of the Globes as well in weight as big|ne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><PB N="68" REF="55" MS="y"> Therefore I mu&s;t multiply 20, which is the waight of the le&s;&s;er Bullet, by the numerator of the proportion, and deuide it by the Denomina|tor, and &s;o &s;hall I haue 25427/2 for the weight of the greater Bullet.</P>
<P>There was a King with a great Armie, and his Aduer&s;arie corrupteth one of his Heraulds with gifts, and maketh him &s;weare, that hee will tell him how many Dukes, Earles, and other Souldi|ers there are in that Armie: The Herauld loath to loo&s;e tho&s;e gifts, and as loath to bee vntrue to his Prince, deui&s;eth this an&s;wer which was true, but yet not &s;o plaine, that the aduer&s;ary could thereby vnder&s;tand that which hee de&s;ired, and that an&s;wer was this.</P>
<P>Looke how many Dukes there are, and for each of them there are twice &s;o many Earles, and vnder euery Earle there are foure times &s;o many Souldiers as there bee Dukes in the field. And when the Ma&s;ter of the Souldiers was taken, the 200 part of them was 9 times &s;o many as the num|ber of the Dukes.</P>
<P>This is a true declaration of each number, quoth the Herauld, and I haue di&s;charged my oath, now gue&s;&s;e how many of each &s;ort there was, marke the worke.</P>
<P>And fir&s;t for the number of Dukes, I &s;et 1 &powerof1; then will the number of Earles be 2 &powerof2; that is 1 &powerof1; by 1 &powerof1; multiplied twice, and the number of Soul|diers
<PB N="69" REF="55" MS="y"> are 8 &powerof3; that is 2 &powerof2; multiplied by 1 &powerof1; foure times, but becau&s;e the 200 part of the Souldiers are nine times &s;o many as the number of the Dukes, therefore mu&s;t 200 part of 8 &powerof3; be equall to 9 &powerof2; and &s;o con&s;equently
8 &powerof3; <GAP DESC="blank"> 1800 &powerof1; and 1 &powerof2; <GAP DESC="blank"> 225 &powerof1; or <GAP DESC="blank"></P>
<P>For if I &s;et 1/200 and 9 as equall together, and would by the Art of Fractions bring the &s;ame proportion in whole numbers, I &s;hall haue for 9. this Fraction 1800/200 and &s;eeing the Denominators be all one in 8/200 and is 1600/200 the proportion con|&s;i&s;teth betweene the numerators.</P>
<P>Then to proceede if 229 be equall vnto one I &s;hall take the roote out of the 225 for 1 and that is 15, which mu&s;t be the number of the Dukes.</P>
<P>And &s;o haue I the fir&s;t number, wherefore the &s;econd number which is the number of Earles, mu&s;t be 15 times 15 twice, that is 450, and the number of Souldiers &s;hall be foure times 15, mul|tiplied by 4, 0, that is 27000, and for iu&s;t triall of this worke, I take the 200 of the Souldiers that 1350, and I finde it to be nine times 15, that is nine times &s;o many as the number of the Dukes, and &s;o is the que&s;tion ended.</P>
<P><PB N="70" REF="56"> A Table to di&s;couer numbers by hundreds, pla|ced by 3. 5. 7. 9. and &s;o forth to 15, as from 100 vnto 1500, as thus 7 in ranke, and 34 in File is 102.</P>
<P><HI>Ranks men</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ranks men</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="71" REF="56">
<HEAD><HI>Admonitions for the Citizens of</HI> London <HI>and</HI> Bri&s;toll.</HEAD>
<P>ANd &s;ince I haue waded &s;o farre into the Art <HI>Millitary,</HI> I haue thought good to aduerti&s;e thus much in generall; But perticularly, the Ci|tizens of <HI>London</HI> and
<HI>Bri&s;toll.</HI></P>
<P>There are in the&s;e Cities &s;undry Companies of three hundred a peece, which are to great by much to ob&s;erue Rankes and Files, and diuers o|ther Orders nece&s;&s;ary and much v&s;efull, vnle&s;&s;e they are often v&s;ed to be exerci&s;ed by Deui&s;ions: Neuerthele&s;&s;e, it was ab&s;olutely denyed by the auncient <HI>Romanes,</HI> who neuer de&s;ired more then a hundred in one Company, and therefore they were called <HI>Centurions,</HI> as much to &s;ay as
<HI>Cap|taines</HI> ouer Hundreds.</P>
<P>They who were the terrour of <HI>Chri&s;tendome,</HI> for feates of Armes, be our Pre&s;idents; and let vs fol|low the imitation of the Mightie&s;t, rather then of others, who&s;e populous a&s;&s;aults are &s;caled by the very eye of the Enemie, and repul&s;ed by the di&s;|order of the Multitude. I will &s;imilize this to the Husband man, who &s;ayes, one Acre well manu|red, yeeldes more profite then ten ill tillde; &s;o one hundred well experienced, are able encounter with two hundred rawe Souldiers.</P>
<P>Some will (peraduenture) &s;ay, nay grumble at
<PB N="62" REF="57"> this my aduerti&s;ement, becau&s;e they know it may be a greater charge vnto them then now it is, by rea&s;on of more Officers that mu&s;t be v&s;ed, if you le&s;&s;en your Companies, and not demini&s;h your full Mu&s;ter.</P>
<P>To this I an&s;were; The Cities Lands and Mo|neyes are infinite, and therefore able to vndergoe &s;o &s;mall a burden for the payment of more Offi|cers, the ripene&s;&s;e and expertne&s;&s;e in Millitary skill but lame, and extreme decreped: Adde the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of Money to the decrepidne&s;&s;e of Di&s;ci|pline, and you &s;hall be &s;ure to haue a meane of both &s;ides, the &s;trength of the City will be there|by much the more inabled, the Honor of it the moe renowned, and the furie the more feared: For what a terror will it &s;trike into the hearts of Strangers, and an amazement to our neighbou|ring Kingdomes, to &s;ee euery Man &s;o skilfull and compleate, Marching, Trouping, and Standing in Battell-ray, like &s;o many Commaunders, the wor&s;t not vnworthy the gouernement of a No|ble Company, daring <HI>Bellona</HI> and her fierce&s;t a&s;&s;aults, ready to encounter the wor&s;t of Stra|tagems?</P>
<P>Now Noble Citizens, the Honor will be your owne, the Strength the Kings, and the Wonder the Worldes, which I hope will be no long time deferred, to the glory of
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">od, the defence of true Chri&s;tian Religion, and to the generall pre&s;erua|tion of your &s;elues.</P>
<P><PB N="73" REF="57"> Al&s;o, there is an other matter, which is not &s;o &s;eemely and Souldier like performed as I haue &s;eene it in Forregine parts: That is, your Mar|ching into the Field, for you ob&s;erue no manner of Order; therefore marke this: Let euery pri|uate Captaine repaire, to and atend his Colonells En&s;igne, and &s;o let the Elde&s;t Colonell march fir&s;t into the Field, then his Captaines, according to their antiquity: And in comming out, or Trou|ping in, fir&s;t the Younge&s;t, then the next, by which meanes, you &s;hall be able and ready to ioyne Battle, without the trauer&s;e vp and downe of &s;o much ground, before you know your right range; for you &s;pend a great part of the day in placing your Companies right in their order.</P>
<P>The&s;e things amended, and orderly perfor|med, will adde much Honour to your Cities, and commendations to the Leaders and Officers: and &s;o I re&s;t.</P>
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<HEAD>The Authors Farewell to his fayth|full Friends: Or, his Caueats to his louing Countrey-men.</HEAD>
<P>IT is bad Pollicy to let Danger knock at the Doore. Sollid and grounded Cour&s;es which keepe dangers aloofe, are better then fine &s;hiffts, and neate deliuerances, when they are neere.</P>
<P>Meditation without Practi&s;e, is like an vn&s;trin|ged In&s;trument, whereon no Man plaies: Practi&s;e without the Theoricke, is like a &s;tringed In&s;tru|ment, but not well Tunde.</P>
<P>It is a Maxime in Millitary proceedings, that tho&s;e things determined, &s;hould not be commu|nicated, but to tho&s;e without whome it can not be effected.</P>
<P>Beware of too long Con&s;ultations, lea&s;t they flye away with the time: Delayes and protracti|ons prooue dangerous many times fru&s;trary.</P>
<P>An Army of Sagges led by a Lyon, is better then an Army of Lyons led by a Stagge.</P>
<P>In Warre, nothing can be wor&s;e, then to &s;ay, <HI>Had I Wi&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>A Generall told his excu&s;ing Souldier, <HI>Thou mu&s;t not fayle twice in Warre.</HI></P>
<P>The wi&s;e&s;t Captaines, needes not thinke it a derogation to their Valour, or a deminution to their Honor, to rely on Coun&s;ell.</P>
<P><PB N="39" REF="58"> Youth are like the fir&s;t cogitations, not &s;o wi&s;e as the &s;econd, fitter to Inuent then to Iudge; fitter for Execution then for Coun&s;ell; fitter for new Proiects then for &s;etled Bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. They in con|duct and managing of Martiall affayres, imbrace more then they can hold, fire more then they can quench, &s;tirre more then they can quiet, flye to the end, without con&s;ideration of the meanes.</P>
<P>Old men obect too much, con&s;ult too long, aduenture too little, &s;eldome driues bu&s;ine&s;&s;e home to the full<HI>:</HI> Therefore a mixture mu&s;t be v&s;ed: Ages Wi&s;edome, and experimentall ad|ui&s;e, ioynd with Youths Valour, and quick di&s;|patch, prooues inuincible.</P>
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<HEAD>A Po&s;t&s;cript to the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>COurteous <HI>Reader,</HI> I had thought to impo&s;ed &s;ilence to my Penne, and to haue infu&s;ed a Period to this my <HI>Compendium;</HI> But I did thinke fitte to adde the&s;e few Lines, as a &s;upple|ment &amp; Po&s;t&s;cript, to &s;how the cau&s;e of this my writing. The
<HI>Cau&s;a mouens,</HI> or, <HI>Primum mobile</HI> of it, is a declaratory In&s;truction to my Countrey-men in generall, but e&s;pecially to No|ble, (though vnexperienced <HI>Tyrones)</HI> in whom, there is either an inbred, or an aduenticious de|&s;ire of <HI>Millitary Di&s;cipline,</HI> or to exo&s;itate, or &s;tir vp tho&s;e that are vnexperienced, to a further pro&s;ecution of the&s;e generous &amp; well be&s;eeming Qualities. The <HI>Terminus ad quem,</HI> or, the in|tentiall &s;cope and drift of this, is for the benefi|ciall good of my Natiue Countrey. From the

<PB REF="59"> fir&s;t of the&s;e, I doe de&s;ire their courteous wel|wi&s;hings; from the &s;econd, their gratefull accep|tation; from the third, their louing approbation: As for the la&s;t, though I owe more then I am able, yet when I am able, I will &s;howe more; In the meane time, take this as a depo&s;itum.</P>
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