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A68294	Pallas armata, or Militarie instructions for the learned: and all generous spirits, who affect the profession of armes. The first part· Containing the exercise of infanterie, as well antient, as moderne: wherein are clearelie set downe all the postures and motions, belonging to battallions of foote	Kellie, Thomas, Sir.; Dickesonn, Charles, engraver.	1627 (1627)	STC 14906; ESTC S108042	73,922	161

make them fall backe with the right Legge and marching to set fordward the left Also they must know to charge to the right to the left to the Reare from beeing aduanced ordered or shouldered all alike readie and with alike promptitude For howsoeuer the Enemie appeare they must bee readie to charge from euerie Posture they stand in The Charging to the Reare by the left is the most easie and most commodious motion For the charging by the right although it bee much used by the French whē they commād La charge be a demytour a droit is verie troublesome and dangerous is discharged by the Law Countrie Discipline for they beeing at close order which is the distance wherein they Charge or receiue a Charge and turning to the right hand their Swordes doe chap and are entangled vpon their Side-men so that they annoy their Side-men and themselues are hindered to turne and therefore breedes a great embarras and confusion in the Battell This Posture Aduance or Mount your Picke which the French calleth Pique en haut the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is to bee used in a Troope and in exercising their motions In a march they must alwayes haue their Pickes Shouldered either Leuell or Sloppe as the word shal be giuen When they come through a gatē or porte they must porte their pickes that is carie them as as they were halfe charged Vpon an halt or stand they must order their Pickes vnlesse there bee command to the contraire When the whole Battell chargeth one way the first 5. Rankes must onelie charge they way commanded and the other 5. if they bee 10. deipth must onlie port their pickes carie them so ouer the heads of the Leaders that they no wayes empesh them either in charging or retiring When they lift their Pickes from their shoulders to charge let them take heede to lift them in a right Line and paralell with their owne File for otherwise by inclining of thē to either hand they shall trouble their next Files When Battelles commeth to push of picke good Commanders sayeth that your picke-men must not push by aduanceing and retireing their Arme as commonlie is done but onelie goe joyntlie on together in a Rout without moueing their Armes The charge at the foote against horse is not now used in the Low-Countries but they charge ouer hand aloft because say they they haue the picke more at command to turne where they will The Posturs of the Musquetier are those following our Scots in the right hand columme the English in the left 1. Take vp your Musquet and your Rest 2. Recouer your Musquet joyne your rest to your Musq 3. Draw out your match 4. Blow your match 5. Cocke your match 6. Try your match 7. Guarde your pan 8. Presēt by blowing your match and opening your pan 9. Giue fire 10. Dismount your Musquet carie it with your rest 11. Vncocke your match 12. Returne your match 13. Blow your pan 14. Prime your pan 15. Shoote your pan 16. Cast off your louse powlder 17 Blow your pan lidde 18. Cast about your Musquet and traill your staffe 19. Charge your Musquet 20. Draw out your Ram sticke 21. Shorten your Ram-sticke 22 Put in your Bullet and ram downe your powlder Bullet 23. Draw out your Ram sticke 24. Shorten your Ram sticke 25. Put vp your Ram sticke 26. Fetch your Musquet forward with the left hand and hold it vp in the right and recouer the staffe 27. Shoulder your Musquet and carie your staffe with it 28. March and carie your staffe in your right hand 29. Sinke your Musquet and vnshoulder your Musquet 30. Lay your Musq on your staffe 31. Stād to your Sētinell posture 32. Hold your Musquet in your staffe with the left hand onelie in ballance 33. Lay downe your Musquet 1. Take vp your Musqut and your staffe 2. Recouer your Musquet and joyne your staffe to your Mus 3. Take out your lunt 4. Blow your Lunt 5. Cocke your lunt 6. Try your lunt 7. Guarde your pan 8. Present or lay on by blowing your lunt opening your pan 9. Giue fire 10. Take downe your Musquet and carie it with your stâffe 11. Vncocke your lunt 12. Put your lunt betwene your fingers 13. Blow your pan 14. Morse your pan 15. Shoote your pan 16. Cast off your lowse powlder 17 Blow your pan 18. Cast about your Musquet and traill your rest 19. Charge your Musquet 20. Draw foorth your scourer 21. Shorten your scourer 22. Charge with bullet and ram downe your poulder bullet 23 Draw foorth your scourer 24 Shorten your scourer 25. Returne your scourer 26. Bring about your Musquet and paise it and recouer your rest 27. Shoulder your Musquet and carie your rest with it 28. March and carie your rest in your right hand 29. Slip your Musquet and vnshoulder your Musquet 30. Rest your Musquet 31. Stād to your Sētinell Posture 32. To your saluting Posture 33. Lay downe your Musquet Obserue that all this multitude of Postures in seruice are redacted to three Make readie present and giue fire The Musquetier vpon a March is alwayes to haue his Musquet shouldered and the Rest in his right hand his left vpon the butte-Butte-end or head of the Musquet Although I haue seene many Souldiers and chiefelie the lazie Dutches to carie their Musquet with their hand vpon the Barrell and the mouth before them which is an vnseemelie Posture and verie vnreadie for seruice Vpon one halt or stand the Musquetier is alwayes to rest his Musquet vnlesse hee haue command to the contrarie The Musquetiers are to carie the mouth of their Musquet high as well when they are shouldered as when they prime or guarde their pan or come vp to giue fire And when they blow their Match they are to bring their Musquet to their mouth and not to stoope to it A Musquetier in making readie and in falling away through an diuision or by counter-march must take good heede to carie his Musquet in a evin straight line with his File for if he carie it crosse hee will disturbe his neighbour Files When they giue fire against the Enemie beeing in open Fielde they must aime no higher than the Girdle of a man But within a Trench or Parapet where perchance nothing shall bee discouered but the heade of the Enemie they must aime at that part which appeareth How those Postures as well of the Picke as Musquet are to bee performed may bee some-what vnderstood by the figures which are set downe in his Excellence Graue Maurice his Booke of postures but they are neuer to bee learned without action and practise Of Motions and first of Faceing Tit. 6. SOuldiers then beeing Armed and drawen vp in an orderlie Bodie and knowing their distances marches Postures The chiefe thing thereafter that they are to learne is their Motions which are the life of an Armie for as the Soule is to the bodie so is Motions to a

foote and an halfe Obserue that when your Companie marcheth they must keepe 3. foote betweene Files and 6 foote between Rankes Close Order or third distance is when your Souldiers stand a foote and an halfe remoued from File to File and 3. foote from Ranke to Ranke and this distance is onely for Picke-men when they charge or receiue the charge of the Enemie For the Musquetiers are neuer to bee closer than three foote in square because they must haue a free use of their Armes (c) Aelian Tact. c. 11. Aelian calleth this distance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Constipatio or a joyning of Targets together and taketh vp a cubitt There is also a double Distance or open open Order which containeth 12. foote betwixt Rankes and Files and is used when ye march toward a Forte to let the shotte goe through the Files and when ye double your Files by conuersiō Now the measure of those Distances cannot be taken justlie by the eye but the Souldier to learne them must acompt the distance of sixe foote to bee betwixt File and File when the Souldiers streatching out their airmes toucheth one anothers hands and betwixt Rankes when the endes of their Pickes come well neare to the heelles of them that march before As for the Musquetiers they must keepe levell with the Pickes And the measure of the 3. foote betwixt the Files is whē their Elbowes toucheth one another betwixt Rankes when they come vp to touch one anothers Swords The measure of a foote and an halfe betwixt Files is when they joyne shoulder to shoulder Manie Commanders holdes that open Order is not sixe foote in square but is 12 foote in Ranke and 6. in File Order 6. foote in Ranke and 3. in File but I leaue euerie man to his owne opinion For it is in Militarie Discipline as in all others Sciences Certant doctores adhuc sub judice lis est Alwayes the former opinion is most receiued What Distance and intervall the Romans used betwixt the Maniples and Cohortes of their Legions (d) Veget. de re Militari lib. 3. cap. 15. see Vegetius Of Marching Tit. 4. AFter that a confused Bodie of men is orderlie digested into Files and Rankes and that euerie one of them knoweth their Distance the next thing of consideration is how to make them March in due order All Marches are either in Battell array or by diuisions I will not here touch the Grecian Marches 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the knowledge wherof I remitte the Reader to find in (a) Aelian Tactic cap. 35. cap. 36.37 38. sequent Aelians Tactikes but will onelie speake of the ordinarie Marches used now a-dayes Suppose then that yee haue a Companie of men consisting of 200. whereof the one halfe are Pickes and the other Musquetiers and yee would draw them vp in Battel You must first know what should bee the length of your Battell that is How many men ye should put in Ranke the deipth alreadie knowne 10. which is speedilie done thus Diuide your whole number 200. by the deipth 10. the quotus beeing 20. sheweth you the length of your Battell so that you haue 20 in Ranke and therefore your Battell consisteth of 20. Files 10. deepe Of those 20. Files 10. are Pickes 10. Musquetiers which you shall dispose after this manner Set your 10 Files of Pickes altogether diuide your 10. Files of Musquetiers and draw them vp fiue of them vpon the right hand of the Pickes and the other fiue vpon the left hand of the pickes all fronting equally so that the Bodie of your Pickes shall bee flanked with your Musquetiers vpon the right and left as you see in the Figurs following where P. signifieth the Picke-men and M. the Musquetiers for lacke of better figurs to expresse them ABCDEF Heere then yee see your 10. Files or bodie of Pickes are B. E. your fiue Files of Musquetiers on the right Flanke of your pickes C. F. the other 5. Files of Musquetiers on the left Flanke A. D. frō C. to A. is the whole number of your Files as well Musquetiers as Pickes from C. to F. the number of your Rankes Now if yee would march by diuisions as being forced by the straitnesse of the ground yee are to command the Bodie to make an halt or stand then yee command the fiue Files of Musquetiers which are on the right Flanke of the Pickes to march out from the Bodie till their Bringers vp bee before the File-Leaders of the Pickes And this shall bee your first diuision of Musquetiers Next yee are to command the fiue Files of Pickes on the right hand to march out from the rest and to follow the Musquetiers Fileing euin with them but keeping a distance of 12 foote betwixt the diuisions where the Enseigne must march and this shall bee your first diuision of Pickes After them shall follow therest of the Pickes which shall bee your second diuision of Pickes keeping also a distance as the former Last of all shall follow the 5. Files of Musquetiers which was on the left Flancke of the Pickes and this shall bee your second diuision of Musquetiers The Officers of the Companie must bee thus placed The Captaine marcheth in the Front before the first diuision of Musquetiers The Enseigne with the Colours is to march before the first diuision of pickes The oldest Sergeant is to leade the second diuision of pickes The second Sergeant leads the second diuision of Musquetiers The Leiuetenant marcheth after the second diuisiō of Musquetiers bringeth vp the Reare The chiefest Drumme beats in the first diuision of Pickes betwixt the 3. and 4. Ranke The second Drumme beats in the first diuision of Musquetiers betwixt the 3. and 4 Ranke but some by the contrare maketh the chiefest Drumme to beate in the first diuision of Musqueties because say they the Captaine ought to haue the chiefe Drum with him Some also I haue seene make the Drum who marcheth with the Pickes to beate in the Front beside the Enseigne but those differences are not of great moment if the Companie haue a third Drum he shall beate in the last diuision of Musquetiers The figure following expresseth this march clearclie In this figure then A. B. C. is the first diuision of Musquetiers before which the Captaine marcheth In D. the second Drum beates betwixt the 3. and 4. Ranke D. E. F. is the first diuision of Picks C. D. is the interuall or distance betwixt the first diuision of Musquetiers and the first diuision of Pickes where the Enseigne marcheth In E. the first Drumme beateth betwixt the 3. and 4. Ranke of Pickes G. H. is the second diuision of Pickes F. G. the distance betwixt the two diuisions of Pickes which is the oldest Sergeants place I. K. is the last diuision of Musquetiers H. I. the interuall where the second Sergeant marcheth K. is the place of the Leiuetenant in the Reare Now when ye come againe to a faire Campaigne desireth to

the first ranke hath giuen fyre it standeth still the Ranke next it passeth vp through the same Ranke and presenteh in due distance before it and giueth fyre the third Ranke passeth through them both and giueth fyre before them and so the rest of the ranks successiuelie till the bringers-vp haue giuen fyre in the Front But I thinke this not so fit for seruice as to show the varietie of exercise If the Commander please to make more execution against the enemie hee may command the second Ranke to double the first and to giue fyre altogether so that for fiue shotte hee may shoote ten and for ten twentie The use of this exercise is to advance and to charge the Enemie if yee bee stronger than he and to gaine ground vpon him But if ye desire not to gaine ground as beeing more fite to defend then offend yee may make the Rankes giue fyre where they stand without advancing and fall away to the right or to the right and left as before If ye sustaine a charge both in Front and Reare then they who hath giuen fyre falleth away to either hand and joynes in the the division made through the middle of the Battell betweene the two middle rankes as in the figure following ABCD A B C D is a winge of 100 Musquetiers wherof the one halfe of the rankes giues fyre in the Front A B The other halfe of the Rankes giues fyre in the Reare C D and the Ranks that hath giuen fyre both of A B and C D to wit the first and the tenth falles away to the right and left hand and joynes in the division E euerie man toward his owne Front the Rankes next them presentes giues fyre and falles away as the former and so all the rest Or else they may fall away by Countermarch as I haue said before but in so doing they must bee expert Musquetiers and carie their Peeces aright otherwise they will disturbe the whole Ranks And it is a verie comelie sight to see this Battell when the pickes are charged both to the Front Reare the Musquetiers doing their duetie that is giuing fyre and falling away by Countermarch gracefullie and with readinesse as I haue seene the Souldiers of the Artillerie Garding doe it most exactlie How to Giue fire in the Reare The second way of Giuing fyre is in Reteiring from the Enemie and then they giue fire in the Reare which is in this manner The Captaine marching in the Reare for that is his place in a retreit from the Enemie honour beeing alwayes accompanied with danger commands the last Ranke to make ready and then to the right hand about and giue fire which they doe the body still continuing their marche and thereafter turnes off to the right hand or if they be many to the right left towardes both Flankes or else through the divisiones of the body which are made for that end and marches vp a good swift pace to the Front where euerie man falles in the Front of his own File As soone as the last Rank is turned to giue fire the next Rank makes ready and when the last Ranke is fallen off and marched away it turnes about giues fire falls off and doth all as the former did and so all the rest of the Rankes successiuelie one after another as in the figure following FGHI F G H I is a winge of an 100 Musquetiers Retireing from the enemie where yee see the 10 Ranke in the Reare hath giuen fire turned to the right hand divided it selfe and fallen away the on halfe through the division H F betwixt the Musquetiers and the Picks the other halfe through the division K and are marching away vp to the Front but if yee would keepe the bodie of your Musquetiers whole ye may make the Ranke which giues fyre divide it selfe and the one halfe fall away to the right hand the other to the left so that the halfe which falls away through the division K shall fall away by the Flanke I G. The ninth Ranke hath turned about and presented and after it giueth fyre divideth it selfe and marcheth away as the former and so doeth all the Rankes successiuelie one after another continueing still their march and giuing fyre vpon the Enemie If yee would make more execution vpon the Enemie yee may make the penult Ranke double the last as I show before in doubling the Front The use of Giuing fyre Reteiring is when the Enemie is stronger than you and followes you in the Reare yee beeing much weaker and not able to encounter him yee march away and makes haste to gaine your owne Quarters or Trenche or Forte from whence you sortied or to joyne with moe of your owne arme and yet ye skirmish with the Enemie giuing fyre vpon him and no wayes hindering your owne marche The third way of Giuing fyre is How to Giue fire on the Flankes Marching by an Enemie which is done vpon the Flanks after this maner The outmost File of the Flanke next the Enemie is commanded to make ready and to turne to the right or left hand according as the Enemie appeares vpon the right or left wing and to giue fire altogether thereafter they march not with the bodie but stands still and keepes their ground and charges their Musquets againe Now whensoeuer the foresaid File turnes to giue fire the next File vnto it makes readie keeping alwayes along with the Body till its bringer-up bee past a litle beyond the leader of the File that gaue last fyre and then the whole File must turne and giue fire and doe all as the former did Thereafter the first File marches up and joynes with the second File Assoone as the second File turnes to giue fyre the third File which is now outmost towards the Enemie makes ready turnes about giues fyre and doth all as the other two and so the rest one after another and then the first two Files marcheth vp to the third and those three to the fourth after it hath discharged and so foorth all the rest till the whole wing of shotte be gathered together and then they all marche vp and joyne in equall Front with the Pickes as yee see in the figure following KLMN K L M N is a winge of 100 Musquetiers marching by an Enemie who showes himselfe on the right Flanke of the Battallion L N Your first File P. towards him hath giuen fyre vpon him and hath charged their Musquets againe in the place they stood The next File hath also giuen fyre vpon him and are charging againe in the same ground also the third File hath turned to the right hand and so hath presented to giue fyre after which yee must imagine the first File P. to march vp and joyne with the second File O. and both of them to marche vp to the third File and so foorth till the whole wing gather and joyne together againe after they haue given fyre The like yee