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A12531	The arte of gunnerie. Wherein is set foorth a number of seruiceable secrets, and practical conclusions, belonging to the art of gunnerie, by arithmeticke skill to be accomplished: both pretie, pleasant, and profitable for all such as are professors of the same facultie. / Compiled by Thomas Smith of Barwicke vpon Tweed souldier.	Smith, Thomas, fl. 1600-1627.	1601 (1601)	STC 22855; ESTC S116363	60,711	126

THE ARTE OF GVNNERIE Wherein is set foorth a number of seruiceable secrets and practical conclusions belonging to the Art of Gunnerie by Arithmeticke skill to be accomplished both pretie pleasant and profitable for all such as are professors of the same facultie Compiled by THOMAS SMITH of Barwicke vpon Tweed Souldier LONDON Printed for VVilliam Ponsonby 1600. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE PERIGRIN BERTIE KNIGHT LORD WILLOVGHBIE Beake and Earsby Lord Gouernour of her Maiesties Towne and Castle of Barwicke vpon Tweed and Lord VVardon of the East marches of England for and anempst Scotland c. IT is a common opinion Right Honourable amongst a great number who may be tearmed more wayward then wise that the Art of Soldiery may perfectly be attained in two or three moneths practise and that any common man in a few weekes trayning hauing seene two or three skirmishes may be called an expert soldier Not considering that a Mariner may saile seuen yeares and yet be far from a Nauigator A number of Mechanicall Artificers may labour diuerse yeares and yet be far from perfection and a number of Souldiers may serue many yeares and yet haue but the bare name of a souldier He may well be called a trained souldier that knoweth by the sound of Drum and Trumpet without any voice when to march fight retire c. that is able in marching embattelling encamping and fighting and such like to performe execute and obey the lawes and orders of the field that hath some sight in the Mathematicals and in Geometricall instruments for the conueying of Mines vnder the ground to plant and mannage great Ordinance to batter or beat down the wals of any Towne or Castle that can measure Altitudes Latitudes and Longitudes c. such a one may be tearmed in my opinion an expert souldier though he neuer buckled with the enemie in the field Such perfections is well knowne to be in your Honour that you are furnished with these and many morare qualities in the Art Militarie and aboue all with wisedome and noble courage to performe and execute any honorable enterprise whatsoeuer for the honour and seruice of God your Prince and countrie the which our proud enemies haue felt to their paine and your euerlasting fame And although I my selfe be but one of the meanest souldiers in this Guarison now vnder your Lordships gouernement whom we pray long to gouern ouer vs being brought vp from my childhood vnder a valiant Captaine in Militarie profession in which I haue had a desire to practise and learne some secrets touching the orders of the field and trayning of Souldiers as also concerning the Art of Managing and shooting in great Artillerie I haue thought it good hearing of no other that hath done the like before to frame together certaine Arithmeticall and Geometricall rules to shew in part how necessarie Arithmeticke and Geometrie is for our profession the which I haue set downe in two litle bookes the one intituled Arithmeticall Militarie Conclusions the other The Art of Gunnerie the first I wrote two or three yeares since and bestowed on my Captaine Sir Iohn Carie Knight the which God sparing life I meane to correct enlarge perhaps put to the Presse This other I haue thought it my part to offer to your Lordships good consideration to be shrouded vnder your Honourable buckler to beare off the blowes of enuious tongues which are euer ready to spit their spite against any vertuous exercise which although it be vnworthie to passe vnder so honourable a protection I hope your Lordship will in indifferent ballance weigh my willing mind to do my countrie good and your Honour any seruice my poore abilitie is able to performe which if your Honour allow of I shall thinke my paines well employed and shall encourage me hereafter to bring this new found Art into some better perfection so farre as my poore abilitie is able to put in practise or my simple skill in the Art will reach to Thus loth to be tedious I cease beseeching God to preserue your Honour with much increase of honour to Gods glorie and your hearts desire Your honours dutifully at command Thomas Smith Souldier TO ALL GENTLEMEN SOVLDIERS GVNNERS AND ALL FAuourers of Militarie Discipline Thomas Smith wisheth increase of happinesse GENTLEMEN there was neuer Author nor practised Gunner euer able as I am perswaded to describe at full or could shew perfectly the efficacie and force that Gunpowder is able to accomplish it being a mixture of such a wonderfull operation and effect as by dayly experience we find And although diuerse men in diuerse ages haue inuented diuerse engines and Ordinance for offensiue and defensiue seruices by Gunpowder to be perfourmed yet none hath nor could euer attaine to that full perfection to know precisely what straunge effects the said mixture is able to worke Also diuers learned men haue inuented many excellent rules pertaining to the Art of Gunnerrie and a great many of them haue and do erre in the principals of their inuentions and the cause is for want of due practise therein For the Art of Gunnery doth require great practise and experience to declare the rare secrets thereof which is not for meane men to attaine to for that the charges is great And albeit I am the least able of a great many to take any matter in hand pertaining to the same Art being but a sworne scholler thereto and my abilitie far vnable to put in practise that I would yet because I haue serued a prentize-hood twise told since I tooke my oth and neuer hearing of any that hath compiled any Arithmeticall rules or secrets which is the fountaine head from whence all Arts or sciences do spring into one volume I thought it my part and duty according to my skill to do the best I could therein for the benefit of others and that in the plainest maner I could that such as are not well seene in numbers Art might the sooner vnderstand the same And albeit I haue herein shewed but a few Arithmeticall conclusions belonging to the Art of Gunnerie yet the experienced Gunner or skilfull Mathematitian by these few may deuise a great many moe for seruice offensiue and defensiue by Arithmeticke and Geometrie to be performed All which conclusions gentle Readers I haue thought best to frame in easie questions shewing the answers or resolutions thereof And although they be but meanly framed I hope you will accept the same in good part the rather for that they are a yong Gunners practises And if there be ought herein that may profit you yeeld me your friendly censure I craue no more or if in any place I haue erred either gently correct it or passe it with silence or in friendly sort admonish me thereof I deserue no lesse There is a great many that can spie a mote in another mans eye that had neede to haue a beame pulled from their owne some wil scan verie curiously and sooner find two faults then

amend one If you be of that mind friendly readers I mind not to make you my iudges The widowes mite was aswell accepted as the gifts of the wealthie A souldier in Alexanders campe in the dry desert presented the king his helmet full of cold water saying if I could haue gotten better drinke your Grace should haue had part the which the king gently accepted and liberally rewarded answering I wey not thy gift but thy willing mind But I seeke no reward for my trauell but onely you will wey my mind is willing to do my countrey good and to profite the readers and not to carpe with Momus nor disdaine vvith Zoilus nor sooth vvith Zantippus In so doing you shall encourage me to set penne to paper and to flie a higher pitch pertaining to this new found Arte. Othervvise if you spit out your spite against me for my good vvill I will as meanely account of your malice and so as I find you looke to haue of me From my poore house in Barwicke vpon Tweed this 2. of May 1600. Your friend and welwiller Thomas Smith Souldier PETER LVCAS CANNONNIER in commendation of the Authour and his booke SHake silly pē to write of arte to him where arte doth dwel And say the want of Eloquence doth so thy hand repell That farre thy Muse vnable is to praise the Authors skill Nor canst thou paint thy mind nor finely tell thy will But as there needs no signe at dore whereas the wine is pure So need not I commend this worke it all men will allure To loue the Smith that forg'd this worke who hath such Art in store That better is then Arte which trieth gold from ore As our proud foes haue found and felt by Ordinance might And ayde of the almightie Ioue who doth defend our right Therefore good Zeale go post-hast vnto Fame And bid her giue this booke an euer-liuing name Peter Lucas Gunner Richard Hope Gentleman in commendation of the worke TO tell a tale without authoritie Or faine a fable by inuention The one proceeds of quicke capacitie The other shewes but small discretion Who writes conclusions how to vse a peece In my conceipt deserues a golden fleece VVho takes in hand to write of worthie warre And neuer marched where any warre was made Nor neuer hopes to come in any iarre But tels the triall knowing not the trade To write of warre and note not what it is May well be thought a worke begun amisse But he that by his studie makes it knowne VVhat thing warre is and whereof it proceeds Defensiue and offensiue reasons shewing To those that gape for honor by their deeds A worthie worke who doth not count the same In my conceit he doth a Souldier shame If so Smiths trauell cannot well offend For so he meant before he set it forth And if it chaunce to come where Souldiers wend. He it commaunds to seeme of litle worth For what he writes he writes to honor those VVhich wade in warres to triumph ouer foes Richard Hope Souldier Richard Rotheruppe Gentleman in commendation THat man whom Martiall attempts May raise to honor hie Let him peruse with learned skill Smiths worke of Gunnerie That fountaine which such springs sends forth Can neuer drie remaine I meane the Ground of Arts from which All science we attaine As Grammer Musicke and Phisicke VVith high Astronomie And other Artes Mathematicke And braue Geometrie This Art of Gunnerie likewise Amongst the rest let stand VVhose god-father this Author is VVhich tooke the same in hand Whose knowledge in this famous Arte Deserues eternall fame For his conclusions excellent Doth well deserue the same Richard Rotheruppe Souldier THE ART OF GVNNERIE A Table shewing the deminite parts vsed for mensuration FOrasmuch as some of these measures are to be vsed in the treatise following it is requisite that I shew what kinde of measures are commonly vsed and now in force beginning with a barly corne frō whence all these hereunder and a great many moe do proceed as An inch cōtaineth 3 barley cornes layed end to end a finger bredth cōtaineth 4 barley cornes in thicknesse a hand bredth cōtaineth 4 fingers a foote cōtaineth 12 inches a yard cōtaineth 3 feete an ell cōtaineth 5 quarters of a yard a span cōtaineth 3 handbredths a foote cōtaineth 4 handbredths a geometricall pace cōtaineth 5 feete a fadome cōtaineth 6 feete or 2 yards 10 fadome cōtaineth a score or 20 yards a furlong cōtaineth 123 paces our English furlong cōtaineth 132 paces or 660 feete a pearch or rood cōtaineth 5 yards ½ or 16 feet ½ an aker cōtaineth 160 perches 528 paces or 2640 feet a league cōtaineth 1500 paces an Italian or English mile cōtaineth 8 furlongs or 1000 paces or 5000 feet a Germane mile cōtaineth 32 furlongs a score cōtaineth 20 yards an hundreth cōtaineth 600 feet after 5 score to the 100. 24 grains of wheate dry cōtaineth one penie of Troyes weight 20 pence cōtaineth one ounce 12 ounces cōtaineth one pound 20 graines of barley cōtaineth one scruple of haberdepois weight 3 scruples cōtaineth one dramme 8 drammes cōtaineth one ounce 16 ounces cōtaineth one pound 112 pound cōtaineth 100 weight a tunne cōtaineth 20 hundreth A Table shewing how to weigh a great deale with few weights You may way any number of pounds from one to 40 with these 4 weights 1. 3. 9. 27. 1 to 121 with these 5 weights 1. 3. 9. 27. 81. 1 to 364 with these 6 weights 1. 3. 9. 27. 81. 243. This rule of weighing many things with few weights proceedeth of Geometricall progression The pounds to be weighed are wayed with as many namelike weights to be done either double or three-fold sometime by adding one weight to another and sometimes by taking away and adding to the contrary ballance Example in a double respect All termes to 15 are weighed with 4 weights of pounds as 1. 2. 4. 8. so in a triple respect all pounds to 40 may be weighed with 4 weights as 1. 3. 9. 27. All pounds from 1 to 364 are to be weighed with these 6 weights 1. 3. 9. 27. 81. 243. and so infinitely Measures THe varietie of measures are in a maner infinite and yet are all comprehended vnder three general kinds proceeding from a point in Geometrie as Arithmeticke doth from an vnite that is to say Lines Superficies Bodies Lines hauing but only length without bredth of thicknesse do measure onely Altitudes Latitudes and Longitudes c. Superficies being limited by lines bearing length and bredth without depth or thicknesse in these are knowne the contents of Pauements Glasse Boord Land c. Bodies being bounden by Superficies containing length bredth and thicknes do make knowne the quantitie of all solide or massiue things as timber stone c. All which requires the aide of Arithmeticke to be truly measured The definitions termes and orderly working of these and all other the Elements of Geometrie will teach you Here I thought to haue written briefly