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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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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
of our Times when so many erratick stars have shot from their Hemisphere yet that you have been ever pleased to continue and fix me in the same Constant Orbe wherein I first moved as Serjeant Major under my Honorable Col. John Belamy somtimes a deserving Member of your Honorable Society and as if all this unusuall Bounty and Honour had been yet too litile since you were further pleased after a deliberate and serious perusall of this ensuing Tract The Compleat body of Military Art to compleat me so much more your Servant by obligation in approving and commending both my name and labours to the Press thereby to make me more eminent if not more usefull to the world If I say after all these liberall variety of your Honours favours I should pretermit them as ingratefull or neglect them as forgetfull I might deservedly be rendered stigmatiz'd unto Futurity with an iudeleble brand of infamy But I have neither so slightly studied your Honours nor so easily read over my self as to make so high a Breach upon Humanity or Ethicks Accept therefore Right Houorable and the rest this oblation and sacrifice of my Gratitude with as much aequanimity as it adresseth it self unto you with humility It hath but newly kist the triumphant Hand of our victorious Caesar the very Prince and Master of War from whose glorious Tent it hath taken flight to rest within your warlike walls where it was begotten born and bred and where it shall spight of Envy dwell and inherit as legitimate if your Honours deign to harbour it till Trophies lie forgotten and Time shall be no more what remains is only my daily Orizon for all your Honours happinesse with the subscrib'd Attest of my faithfull duty in the Progresse of your Military service to which I stand in duty and conscience obliged and shall God willing perform to the utmost faculties and endevours of Your Honours most strictly engaged Servant Richard Elton To the truly valiant and expertly accomplish'd Offificers and Commanders in warlike Affairs his fellow Souldiers of the Honourable Exercise and Military Meeting in that Martiall AREA adjoyning to Christ-Church LONDON Major John Haynes Captain Henry Potter Captain John Hynde Captain William Johnson Master Richard Hobby with the rest of those worthy Leaders and Souldiers of that our Society Respect and Greeting Honour'd SIRS and my much endeared Friends IT is not my lowest happiness nor my meanest Honor that one and the same Climate owns our Nativities one and the same City allow'd our Freedoms one and the same Society honours our Employment and I hope one and the same affection shall ever unite our Relations When I cast up the revolution of time wherein we have exercised together and for so many yeares contemplate your free and forward choise to honour me in the primary places of Direction and Discipline but more especially that remarkable honour of your respect and favour in the unanimous Election of me to be your Commander in Chief upon one of your grand and publike Days of your drawing forth into the Champaigne where your severall Exercises were the sole Object of that Days admiration and the subject of future Times applause I must of necessity conclude my self your Debtor beyond the hope of satisfaction Nor can the knowing world but confess that even in your private Academy as able and as learned Souldiers have commenc'd renowned Commanders excepting the two publique Gardens Artillery and Military as in any warlike Gymnasium that this our Island can report off for her own yea and to whose valour and discretion she owes as much for her honour and her safety My earnest desires are that your Resolves and Exercises in this Art may never be retarded but heightned to that glorious pitch that you may be able to send forth knowing Souldiers for all honorable and lawfull Engagements of war whether Forreign or Domestick Towards which I humbly offer here my talent which comes unto you as the latest Emissary from the honorable Militia to whom it hath but now prostrated it's service and the best Orator of my grateful acknowledgment of your many and undeserved favours towards me for which I shall in the most inviolable bonds of friendship ever expresse my self Your observant Servant R. E. To the impartiall and judicious READER IF upon the first view of the Frontispiece or Title thou mayst haplâ— lay by the Book as having already perused variety of Authors relating to the same subject and apply that of the Wise man There is no new thing under the Sun I must reply with the Phylosopher with reverence to the Preacher and say that Ars longa vita brevis and that all the expert and learned in this art have written before and what succession shall dictate to the Ages to come will be too little to leave nothing new to perfect it so long as there are those Ratiocinia plurima which the same wisest King complains off those many strange stratagems forged in the heart and anvill'd in the Brain of man to bring his ambitious and illicite Designes about and so long as there are his new inventions to offend there must be our new preventions to defend that Right He would abridge us off The sad and heavy truth of these productions our own times have given us testimonies large enough off and those have partly occasioned the first conception of this Child of War but the importunity of friends have now mid-wiv'd it into the world lest if it should have come forth a Posthumall piece after the Death of the Parent it might not perhaps have been born with perfect symmetrie and due proportion in all the limbs of it's Body as it is now shap'd it is in thy hand to breed up for thy own service and I may modestly say it will read thee some new Lectures that thou wilt confess have hardly yet been heard in the School of War nor ever taught in our Age but by Thy well wishing and well meaning Friend Richard Elton To the Authour HAd thy Compendium seen the light when first Our English Nation Foes began to thirst After the heart-blood of our Liberty To prick it's vitall veine our misery Had been increast by it so far as Art With Resolution joyn'd could play it's part Hadst thou led forth this Warriour at that tim Thou had'st been guilty of this very crime Of joyning nerves and sinew's to the Arme Of those who sought this Nation so great harme What strength 's a number without discipline And in what volumes more then this of thine Happy we were in that Obscurity Of this thy Tract but not that from the eye Of Englands friends 't was hid might there have been A view of it on this side of the Screen What aid should we have had yet fiercer blowes To strik this Screen a side we may suppose The Quarrell would have changed who should see Elton's Compendium have th' immunitie And franchize of it's use well we might Fight to enjoy this