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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD><MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Obiect."> Obiections again&s;t the v&s;e of the Bow with the Pike: And the An&s;wers thereunto.</HEAD>
<P><HI>The Bow is an incumbrance vnto the Pike, in</HI>
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<ITEM><HI>Weight,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tangling,</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM><HI>Clo&s;e order,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Counter-marching,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Wheeling.</HI></ITEM>
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<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> FFr&s;t, The weight of the Bow, as it is placed, is of no moment; as is explained in the Booke intituled <HI>The double armed man.</HI> Secondly, for Intangling, either in Clo&s;e order, in Counter-marching, or in Wheeling: In all which, the Pikeman doth cary his Pike aduanced, and then is the bow directly ouer his head: &s;o that the Bow can be no more incumbrance then his owne body, either to his leader, his follower, his right hand man, or his left hand man.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Obiect."> <HI>The Bow will be trouble&s;ome when you cheeke or trayle your Pike.</HI> </P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> The Bow is &s;o placed vpon the Pike with the Engine, that if any &s;uch &s;eruice be required, (which is very &s;eldome) then may the Bow very readily be &s;lipped off the Pike, and &s;o trailed therewith; and with as great readine&s;&s;e &s;lipt on againe: And al&s;o cheeking may be done with great agility.</P>
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<P><MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Obiect."> <HI>What v&s;e is for the Bow, when you come to clo&s;e order.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> It is ob&s;eruable, that when you draw to clo&s;e order, it is to receiue the enemy at the pu&s;h of Pike, which when you &s;o clo&s;e your rankes, yet in file you allow &s;o much di&s;tance one from the other, which may giue your armes liberty for to pu&s;h with your Pike; which the bow doth no way hinder, for it is placed &s;o fa&s;t vnto the Pike, that no trouble is therewith. Be&s;ides, when your front &s;tands &s;o charged, your middle men, and your reere, may doe good &s;eruice with their arrowes vpon many occa&s;ions, for in &s;uch clo&s;e order, you may v&s;e your bow either again&s;t hor&s;e or foot.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="Obiect."> <HI>Men are not now of that &s;trength to mannage the bow, as heretofore they were, and therefore they cannot now doe exe|cution as formerly they did.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> What we want in &s;trength of our predece&s;&s;ors, we make good by our ingeniou&s;ne&s;&s;e: For fir&s;t, wee haue the helpe of the Pike, which &s;erueth for a Re&s;t for the bow arme, wherby we draw a very &s;trong bow, as the Booke formerly no|ted doth &s;pecifie. Secondly, we haue now more exact skill in making both bowes and arrowes; and thereby we can &s;hoot further, and more piercing, by rea&s;on of the aduantage that we haue in our arrowes, which are both nimble and flighty; whereby we are enabled to doe execution at the di&s;tance of 16. 18. or 20. &s;core yards off. Thirdly, wee doe hereby double &s;eruice, both with the Pike and with the Bow al&s;o, whereas without the Bow, the pikeman &s;tands but as a marke for the muskettiers and hor&s;emen, as is explained in the booke formerly named.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="Obiect."> <HI>What hurt can the arrowes doe again&s;t armed men?</HI> </P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> There is neither man nor hor&s;e that can be &s;o armed, as to free him&s;elfe from the &s;howers of arrowes, for euery bow|man may haue two or three arrowes &s;till flying, and therefore no part of the body is free from the arrow; for in the de|&s;cending, it mu&s;t hit either the head, face, armes, body, thighes, legs, or feet, both of the leaders and followers, and &s;o both the middle and the reere of the enemies battell are &s;ubiect to the arrowes, as well as the front; and likewi&s;e both Hor&s;emen, Pikemen, Muskettiers, and al&s;o Cannoniers, euen all and euery of the&s;e will be &s;o terrified with the obiect, as wel as with the hurt of the &s;howers of arrowes, that the enemy thereby will be made vncapable of doing any &s;eruice.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="Obiect."> <HI>There are not now &s;et battels fought, as formerly were, and therefore the Bow is not &s;eruiceable as heretofore it was.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;wer."> Where&s;oeuer the Pike or the Musket are &s;eruiceable, there will the Bow be &s;eruiceable al&s;o. Be&s;ides, in raine or moi&s;t weather the Bow is v&s;efull: Al&s;o with our &s;howers of arrowes we can &s;hoot into any Towne, Ca&s;tle, Fort, or Trench; as likewi&s;e to &s;hoot fire-workes, as the afore&s;aid Booke mentioneth.</P>
<P>And now to cleare all other difficulties which may be obiected again&s;t the v&s;e of the Bow in &s;eruice by this inuen|tion; and al&s;o to giue further &s;atisfaction vnto this Honourable A&s;&s;embly, If it may &s;eeme requi&s;ite vnto this Honou|rable Hou&s;e, to giue order that a &s;elected company of Archers may be admitted to performe &s;uch &s;eruice as hath beene &s;pecified, and al&s;o time and place conuenient for &s;uch &s;pectators, as your wi&s;edomes &s;hall thinke meet for cen&s;ure thereof, we doubt not, by Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance, but to giue &s;uch ample &s;atisfaction, that all honourable Commanders and worthy Captaines and Souldiers &s;hall approue thereo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.</P>
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