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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20992	The art of warre, or Militarie discourses of leavying, marching, encamping; and embattailing an armie. Of building, defending, and expugning forts and fortified cities. Of ordinance, petards, and fireworks. Of the severall duties of officers, and souldiers. Of the Grecian, and Romane militia, and forming of battaillons; &c. By the Lord of Praissac. Englished by I.C.; Discours militaires. English	Du Praissac, Sieur.; Cruso, John, d. 1681.	1639 (1639)	STC 7366; ESTC S122251	80,136	227

untill all be mixed then slake it with strong vineger To make excellent coal Take young twigs of hasle or sallow or the stock of a vine put them in small pieces into an earthen pot close covered then set the pot on the fire untill the twigs be burnt their coal is very good To make good powder for muskets and pistols Take seven parts of saltpeter one part of sulphure and one part and a quarter of charcoal or rather eight parts of saltpeter one part of sulphure and one part and one fift part of coal beat it altogether very throughly and sprinkle it over with good vineger then grain it To make roch fire Take one part of common sulphure melt it in an earthen pot being melted put into it half a part of course grained powder well dried salt-peter one third part beaten charcoal half a part put these things together by little and little being well mingled poure them on the flore and you have the roch fire To make burning brush-faggots to cast into the moat to shew light in the night Take roch fire and melt it then anoint the faggots with it or joyners chips or else anoint them with turpentine To make fireballs to set places on fire Take roch fire one part saltpeter one part campher one eighth part fine powder one eighth part beat each of them severally then mix them together with your hand and put them into an hollow ball having holes in divers places with hards amongst it Otherwise Take one part of campher one part of salt-peter half a part of sulphure one third part of coal all beaten to very fine powder then mixed with petroll untill the matter be set in clods then set it a drying the older it be the better it is then you must load the hollow balls having holes of sufficient bignesse and give fire to them by a match or week To make the match or week Take half a quarter of powder a quarter of saltpeter two ounces of aqua vitae half a septier of vineger and one pinte of urin let all this be melted together being dissolved put into it course-spun-cotten untill it have sucked it all up being warm and you shall have a violent week Take it out while it is moist and by pieces of two three or foure foot long rowl it with your hand on a table strewed with well beaten powder and being so powdred hang them in the shadow to drie then lock them up in some drie place To make a fire trunk Take a piece of light wood of three foot and an half or foure foot long bore it through from the one end to the other with a hole of an inch in diameter make the wood very smooth within and without which must be an inch thick and of a like bignesse every where place at the one end an half pike which may enter half a foot in at the hole and nail it sure whip the trunk with strong packthred then anoint and knutle it with resin and wax melted together to keep it from water The mixture of the powders are twelve parts of saltpeter six of sulphure six of canon powder six of fine powder two of glasse meanly beaten two of quicksilver and of sal armoniack beat all these severally then mix them together and make a paste of them with oyle of peter more hard then soft then take hards and make little balls with the mixture above said of the bignesse of the caliver of the trunk and let them drie and binde them with small wyer To charge the trunk put a charge of beaten powder in the bottome of the trunk without ramming of it put a ball upon that and then a little of your mixture continue thus untill it be filled augmenting the charges of powder so that the last be of two charges You are to give fire to this trunk by the mouth of it with a match or week Divers instruments to cast fireworks To make rockets All the parts following must be understood in weight and in measure The matter of rockets Take a part of beaten sulphure one part and an half of ashes of ivie or vinetree twelve parts of common gun-powder well beaten and sifted put these three sorts of powders together into a bason or other vessell and mingle them with both hands till they be well mixed together and in doing so you shall besprinkle them with a brush with common water to keep the dust from flying away and that the powders may concorporate together when you shall presse them within the concave of the rocket you must take heed of powring on too much water lest it come to a paste The concave cilinder of the rocket must be made of strong royall paper which must be rolled and mouled on a moul I will not here speak of the manipulation leaving that to the makers of them as being common and vulgar onely I will say that you cannot beat the matter for rockets too much with an iron hammer into the cilinders and that the longest osier switch is the best so as it weigh not more then the rocket These sorts of rockets the older they be the better and if they be well whipped about they will never burst The coursest powder is best because it is the easier beaten or else take the dust of powder that is that which hath not yet been grained folio 156 To make a rocket you must have a mould to mould your paper on as you see in figure H. A rammer or drift I. The mould to charge the rocket A F G O. The breech of the rocket L. The needle of iron fastned in the breech S. The bignesse of the starres T. ¶ This leaf is to be placed betwixt folio's 156 and 157 in the Art of Warre or Militarie discourses To make cornet-rockets which draw fire after them untill they burst Take a part of beaten sulphure a part of ashes of ivie or vine half a part of osier coals beaten and twelve parts of gun-powder beaten and sifted and mix it as hath been said before To make the composition of serpents which are added to rockets Take ashes of vine one part and of gun-powder beaten and sifted twelve parts and load the concaves of the quills therewith and if you would have the serpents to crack you must make them of paper as the rockets and they must have a petard of grained powder at one end To make the composition to charge starres Take one part of beaten sulphure one part of powder two parts of saltpeter and half a part of coal of osiers all being well beaten Of this composition take the bignesse of a musket bullet cover it with hards and tie it about with thred You must pierce through these starres with an iron bodkin of sufficient bignesse to thred them as a string of beads or a string of match to give fire to them Of the militia of the Grecians CHAP. XVI THeir foot were divided into two kinds pikes and

Generall of foot Of the light armed foot called Psyllagi Number of men Files The Greek names of the troops The names interpreted The Greek names of the officers The officers names interpreted 4.   Dimoeria Half a file Dimoerites Half file-leader 8. 1. Lochia A file Lochites A file-leader 16. 2. Dilochia Two files Dilochites A Lanspassado 32. 4. Systasis A squadron Systasiarchos A Corporall 64. 8. Pentecontarchia A centurie Pentecontarchos A Centurion 128. 16. Hecatontarchia A companie Hecatontarchos A Captain 256. 32. Psyllagia A double companie Psyllagiarchos A Colonels assistant 512. 64. Xenagia A brigado Xenagiarchos A Sergeant major 1024. 128. Systema A double brigado Systemarchos A Lieutenant Colonell 2048. 256. Epixenagia A regiment Epixenagiarchos A Colonell 4096. 512. Stiphos One wing of the battaile Stipharchos The Sergeant major Generall of foot 8192. 1024. Epitagma The battaile of light armed foot Epitagmarchos The Lieutenant Generall of foot Of the horse Number of men The Greek names of the troops The names interpreted The Greek names of officers Officers names interpreted 36 Embolos Half a troop Embolarchos A Lieutenant 64 Archia A troop Archos A Captain 128 Epilarchia A double troop Epilarchos Sergeant major 256 Tarentinarchia Foure troops Tarentinarchos Lieutenant Colonell 512 Hipparchia A regiment Hipparchos Colonell 1024 Ephipparchia A double regiment Ephipparchos Sergeant major Generall 2048 Telarchia One wing of the horse Telarchos Lieutenant Generall 4096 Epitagma The grosse of Cavallrie Epitagmarchos Generall of horse Of the Romane Militia in the time of Polybius CHAP. XVII THe Romanes managed their martiall affairs after this manner They chose out of all the people such as were most fit to bear armes as well for the Infanterie as for the Cavallrie Concerning the Infanterie the poorest and youngest of them were appointed to be Velites the next above these to be Hastati they which were in the flower of their age to be Principes and the ancientest to be Triarii The armes of these foure sorts of souldiers were these The Velites bore a sword a javelin or dart three foot long and an inch thick with an iron at the end one foot long a target of three foot in diameter and an head-piece of leather some bore slings and some bows The Hastati and Principes bore each of them a target two foot and an half broad and foure foot long or foure foot and an handfull a sharp-pointed sword and cutting on both sides and very stiff an head-piece of brasse with crests and plumes two piles of wood the one slender as a dart three cubits long with an iron at the end and one thick one an handfull in thicknesse three cubits also in length at the end whereof there was an iron of the length of the pile half whereof was driven into the wood which was fastened strongly thereunto the other half extended with a sharp point being furnished with hooks This iron next to the wood was one finger and an half thick the finger being accounted at foure barly kernels and the handfull at foure fingers breadth The Triarii bore the same armes which the Principes did saving the piles for in steed of them they bore pikes The Hastati used to bear them in former time and had their name from thence but they quitted them to take piles The Hastati Principes and Triarii bore a breast-plate of brasse or iron a foot square and the richer sort armed themselves with scales or mails fastned together with hooks In a legion there were 4200 men of the foure sorts of souldiers aforesaid Velites Hastati Principes and Triarii divided after this manner There were 600 Triarii 1200 Principes 1200 Histatï and as many Velites As well the Hastati Principes as Triarii were divided each into ten parts called Maniples so that in a legion there were 30 Maniples without reckoning the Velites for they were equally distributed amongst each Maniple The Hastati being 1200 divided into ten Maniples each contained 120 men so much were those of the Principes and 60 those of the Triarii and dividing the 1200 Velites by 30 to serve for such as used flying weapons to the Maniples aforesaid it will appear that every Maniple of Velites contained 40 men One Maniple of Hastati one Maniple of Principes and one of the Triarii with the Velites made a Cohort for there were ten Cohorts in a Legion and six Maniples in a Cohort namely one of the Hastati one of the Principes one of the Triarii and three of the Velites The Velites fought disbanded keeping neither rank nor order and it was their dutie to begin the skirmish and battaile but the Hastati Principes and Triarii were ranged into Maniples All the Maniples of the Hastati stood in one front so did those of the Principes in the rear of them and those of the Triarii in like manner in the rear of the Principes The distance of the Maniples was such that one Maniple might stand betwixt two of them because that if the Hastati were repulsed they might retreat into the intervalls or spaces which were between the Maniples of the Principes and so fight together And if both Hastati and Principes were defeated they might retreat between the Maniples of Triarii and so fight again all together as well Hastati and Principes as Triarii The form of a Legion embattailed B. B. are the Maniples of Hastati C. C. those of the Principes D. D. those of the Triarii The pricks which are about the Maniples represent the Velites Over every Maniple were two commanders called Centurions a first and a second when both of them were present with their Maniple the first commanded the right flank and the second the left and if one of them were absent he which was present commanded the whole Maniple In every Maniple were two Ensignes one under each Centurion and two Sergeants Every ten men had also a commander called a Decurion and over all the Legion there were six Tribunes or commanders in chief Every Legion had 300 horse divided into ten troops called Turmes every one of which had 30 souldiers three whereof were Decurions or file-leaders and three bringers-up The first file-leader called the Prefect commanded the troop in his absence the second and in eithers absence the third did it In every troop there was a Cornet Three Turmes in a companie B. The file-leaders C. The three Cornets The Romanes made use of their Allies in their warres and had a like number of foot of their Allies as they had of citizens of Rome and the Legions were alike in form armes and number of men but concerning the Cavallrie the Allies were double the number of the Romanes It is true that of the foot they took the fifth part and of the horse the third part for extraordinarie and the rest of the foot they divided into two equall parts which they placed on the flanks of the armie and called those on the right hand The right wing and

the dram three penie weight This weight cannot be Troy weight for that hath but 20 penie weight in the ounce and this hath 24. the penie weight foure and twenty grains Of measure The fathom containeth 6 foot But the custome in England is to divide the inch into eight equall parts which I follow the foot 12 inches the inch 12. lines The measures of the parts of a canon and the use thereof The diameter of the bore of the canon is six inches and one sixt part of an inch Our English founding of ordinance differeth from the French proportions as appeareth in Mr Nortons Gunner page 53. The diameter of the bullet six inches The vent or aire for the bullet to play one sixt part The bullet weigheth 33 pound and one third part which is called the Calibre of the canon The metall is two inches thick at the neck and six at the breech The cilinder or concave is nine foot long and equally wide in each part of it The whole canon is somewhat longer then ten foot The diameter of the trunion is six inches The vacant cilinder or guide is five foot and an half The reinforced ring is distant from the muzzell ring foure foot and a half The thicknesse or height of the muzzell ring is five inches The coronice ring is within half a foot of the muzzell ring The sight of iron is placed on the flat base ring The metall of the piece weigheth about 5600 pound Her carriage for the field is fourteen foot long and the axletree seven The canon mounted on her field carriage is almost nineteen foot long The powder for her charge weigheth eighteen or twenty pound The ordinarie observation for all pieces is That the charge of powder be at least the moytie of the weight of the bullet and so to two third parts which is rather better The canon may be laden ten times in an houre and 120 times a day She shoots point blank almost six hundred a Observe that paces are here understood to be onely steps otherwise i● were impossible paces Her platform must be fifteen foot broad and 20 foot long for her reverse The formost ten foot are to be of plank and the rest of hurdles if plank be wanting There must be twenty horses to draw a canon A waggon drawn by foure horses carrieth a thousand or twelve hundred pound weight it is about ten or twelve foot long in the body and the waggon with the horses about fifty foot and their breadth about the axletree is b The breadth of the carriages and of the waggons ought to be alike at the axletree because they are to go in one and the same rut six foot One waggon carrieth three and thirty canon bullets There must be six waggons and foure and twenty horses to carrie the munitions sufficient for a canon to play one whole day namely one hundred and twenty bullets and two thousand and foure hundred pound of powder For the service of a canon imployed for batterie there must be two canoniers three chargers and thirty pioners The cordage of the canon must be a c This cable is not used in all countreys cable fifteen fathom long foure inches and a half about which will weigh about seventy pound The names of the parts of the carriages and wheels for the Artillerie A. A plank for the cheeks or side of the carriage 14 foot and an half long one foot and an half thick and one foot eight inches broad for the canon B. The outside of the cheek C. The inside of the cheek D. The carriage being a Note that the canon a little before is said to be 6 inches thick of metall at her breech and the diameter of her bore six inches and one sixt part so then the carriage ought to be somewhat above 18 inches wide for the breech bed and coins and so the tail must be so much the wider of course 13 inches broad within the work at the head and 18 at the tail L. The axletree 7 foot long K. A spoke 14 inches long between nave and felloes 4 inches and an half thick in diameter E. The nave of 20 inches long from E. to I. and as much in diameter over against G. in F. 17. and in I. 14. F. G. H. I. Foure hoops of iron In the figure S. A. The cheeks B. ●ransomes C. Bolts D. The axletree E. Vpper plates F. Hooks for draught G. The clowt H. The hole in the arm of the axletree for the lintspin I. The end of the axletree K. The shafts L. The shaft-bolts M. The thill-bolt O. The thill Q. The rest N. The forelock of the thill bolt In figure T. 1 Holes for the trunions 21 inches distant from the head of the carriage to the center 2 The capsquire or plate over the trunnion 3 A hook for draught 4 Nails with smooth heads 6 Forelocks for the bolts that pin down the capsquire 7 The nether plate 8 Mortais for the axletree 9 Bolts 10 The upper plate 11 The hole for the bolt 12 The thill 13 A hook to fasten the rudstay which goeth upon the horseback 14 The hole for the forelock key 15 The thill plate 16 The forelock pinnes and chain 17 The cramp-iron of the chain 18 The tail-plate of the carriage 19 The bolt-hole The wheels are five foot high being shod A. Spokes B. Felloes C. The nave D. Nails E. The plates for the shoing or tire of the wheels F. The barres over the felloes to strengthen them G. The stirrops H. Leavers or handspikes I. Crow leavers K. The axletree L. The distance between the wheels M. The rut of the wheel N. The end of the axletree O. The lintspin P. The great and small hoops R. The bosse of iron for the nave S. The great and little coins T. The dowledge of the wheel V. The sight rule to be placed upon the base-ring X. An handscrue Y. A bar to be placed over the felloes Z. A stirrop A. A canon mounted B. The cable C. The head of the ladle and spunge D. Thongs to tie the leavers ladle and spunge E. The staffe of the spunge F. The staff of the ladle G. The spunge H. The ladle of brasse I. The ladle of brasse K. The budge-barrell L. A casque of corn-powder M. A casque of fine powder N. A barrell of priming-powder Of the great culvering The diameter of her bore is foure inches and five sixt parts The diameter of her bullet foure inches and two third parts The bullet weigheth 15 pound and a quarter Her metall at her neck is one inch thick and three fourth parts and at her chamber foure inches and five sixt parts Her cilinder is nine foot foure inches long From the center of the trunions to the touch-hole is three foot ten inches The vent or aire for the bullet to play is one sixt part Her charge of powder is ten pound weight She shoots point blank