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The compleat body of the art military ... divided into three books, the first containing the postures of the pike and musket ... the second comprehending twelve exercises ... the third setting forth the drawing up and exercising of regiments ... illustrated with varietie of figures of battail ... / by Richard Elton.
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Elton, Richard, fl. 1650.
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Wing E653; ESTC R24314
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THE COMPLEAT BODY OF THE ART MILITARY Exactly compiled and gradually composed for the Foot in the best refined manner according to the practise of the Modern Times Divided into Three BOOKS The First containing the Postures of the Pike and Musket with their Conformities and the Dignities of Ranks and Files Their manner of joyning to the compleating of a Body their severall Distances Facings Doublings Countermarches Wheelings and Firings With diverse Experiments upon single Files The Second comprehending twelve Exercises Viz. Three with 24 Men. Three with 32 Men. Three with 64 Men. Three with 144 Men. The Third setting forth the drawing up and exercising of Regiments after the manner of Private Companies with the forming Brigades and Armies the placing of Cannon and Artillery according to the practise of severall Nations Armies and Commanders in Chief Together with the duties of all private Souldiers and Officers in a Regiment from a Sentinell to a Collonel As also the duties of the Military Watches Lastly directions for ordering Regiments or Private Companies to Funerall Occasions Illustrated with Varietie of Figures of Battail very profitable and delightfull for all Noble and Heroick Spirits in a fuller manner then hath been heretofore published By RICHARD ELTON Serjeant Major Cant. 3. 8. They all handled the Sword and are expert in War LONDON Printed by ROBERT LEYBOURN in Monkswell Street neer Creeplegate MDCL VERAET ACCVRATA EFFIGIES RICHARDI ELTONI GENEROSL BRISTOL NEC NON ARTIS MILITARIS MAGISTIRI ANO 1644 If Rome vnto Her conquering Ceasrs raise Rich obelisks to crowne thier deatfiles Praise What Monument to Thee must Albion reare To shew Thy Motion in a brighter Sphere This Art 's too dull to doe 't t is only done Best by Thy Selfe so hights ' the World the Sunne Wee may admire thy Face the Sculptor's Art But Wee are extasi'd at th' inward Part W S Fiut Iohn Droeshout Sculp Lon TO THE MIRROUR of CHIVALRY And HONOUR of all MARTIALL DISCIPLINE The most Victorious Thomas Lord Fairfax HIS EXCELLENCIE CAPTAIN GENERALL of all MILITARY FORCES for the PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND All Health and Happinesse here and hereafter Most Eminent and Illustrious SIR May it please Your Excellencie THe Glory of all Arts is Action the Honour of all Action is Vertue the Crown of all Vertues is Perfection the Excellencie whereof according to the perfection of Humanity is so essentiall in your Excellencie that you are become at once the Wonder and the Honour of Europe Neither can that immortall Fame of Yours be conceal'd from the rest of the habitable World who shall from age to age record and from Antiquity to Infantry relate those matchlesse Victories and unimitable Atchievements which the Bounty and Blessing of Heaven hath enrich'd your Hand and beautifi'd your Name withall In all whose Honourable and succesfull Undertakings I had an aim at no greater happiness then to have been the least Part in so Noble an Employment under your Excellencie towards the perfecting of the Welfare and Happinesse of this Kingdom and Common-wealth had not the Military affairs of this Honourable Metropolis unavoydably engaged and obliged me to attend the service of their own Militia And therein My Lord I have spared neither Diligence nor Study that might conduce to the great Work of Arms then in Embrio now in Perfection excepting only Opposition and Envie which the greatest Honours never yet were free from A part of which Perfection hath always flowed from the industry of the Officers and practice of the Students of that Warlike Academy wherein although I have not as a Member thereof with such dexterity as Cadmus sent out well experienc'd Souldiers in a Day yet have I not sitten so idle as Lepidus and wish'd to be warm'd more from the Sun than my own Labours of which the effects are now upon the publike Test but more formidably under your Excellencies censure to whose Patronage and Protection I have presumed to devoted the Eldest Son and First-born of all my forepast Studies Practise and employment in the gradation of Military affairs for the space of a double Apprentiship in that noble Science All the following sheets which relate to that Heroick Subject such as they are and in such a dress as now they have put on submissively and primarily present themselves with all their worth and beauty if any be discernable within them unto Your Excellencie as to their tutelar Angel and most Orthodox Warriour that either Pole can boast of In confidence therefore of your Excellencies native Candor towards all Ingenuity and more especially That wherein your Own transcendent and unparalleld Honours are more perspicuously and really delineated than all the vain and empty Glory of the Dull and Phlegmatick Pretenders to Chivalry can Map or Landskip by the effeminate hand of Flattery this late abortive in full shape due proportion and if Truth deceive me not in just Maturity hath broken from the Wombe of my fourteen years endeavours to see the Light both of the censorious and judicious World and in that Light it cannot but live if your Excellencies goodness shall vouch safe to foster it and must not die except your displeasure please to wound it And whether this shall live or die I shall not further aspire at any loftier pitch of Honour than to have Commission to subscribe my self Your Excellencies most humbly devoted Servant Richard Elton The Right Honourable the judicious and grave Trustees and Guardians of the Militia of the Honourable City of LONDON The Lord Major Isaac Pennington Sir Iohn Wollaston Knight Thomas Atkins John Fowke William Gibs Thomas Foot Christopher Packe Rowland Wilson Aldermen of the City of London Major Generall Philip Skippon Collonel Francis West Lieutenant of the Tower Col. John Venn Col. Edmund Harvey Francis Allen Major Richard Salway Gregory Clement Col. Owen Row Col. Robert Tichborne Col. Matthew Shephard Col. William Vnderwood William Wyberd John Deathicke Iohn Strange Daniel Tayler Col. Richard Turner Col. Nathaniel Camfield Lieut. Col. Doyley Master Maurice Gethin C aptain Nath Lacy Major Edmund Waring Col. Robert Manwaring Col. Iohn Heyes Thomas Arnold Samuell Moyer Thomas Noell Stephen Eastwick Richard Shute Mark Hildersly Iames Russell Tempest Milner Captain Blackwell senior Iohn Pocock Right Honourable Honourable and ever to be honour'd Heroes WHose Honors joyntly and severally are all sprung more from your just deserts than ambitious desires whose provident industry for this Citie and Kingdoms security shall more eternize your Names unto Posterity than your magnificent opulencie can make you after Death survive and flourish in your hopefull issue Since it always seem'd good in your Eyes even from my first initiation into your Military Service more out of an in-nate humanity of yours wherewith your Honours abound than from any merits of mine own which I acknowledge but mean still to number Me for one and the same both in degree and service in your Noble and Martiall Imployments notwithstanding the many changes occasioned by the necessity