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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08348	The gunners dialogue VVith the Art of great artillery. By Robert Norton, enginier. and gunner.	Norton, Robert, d. 1635.	1628 (1628)	STC 18674; ESTC S119502	20,179	42

duly directed by a true disparture that the Axis of her Bore may precisely respect the marke And lastly endeuour to preuent all impedimentall Accidents Q. 28. If you were to make a shot in the night at a marke shewed you in the day how would you prepare for it A. I would first lay the Peece in her Carriage precisely to the marke in the day then with a Chalke-line dipt in Gum-water I will strike a right line on the vpper part of the metall from Breech to Muzle while the line is yet moist vpon which I will apply a good and sure Magneticall needle or flye with a Chart exactly diuided and note the intersecion then from the ends of the line that was marked or striken vpon the metall I let fall plum-plum-lines vpon the Platforme and at the places where they touch I knocke in at each a small naile Lastly with a Quadrant I obserue the eleuation of the concaue or else with some Staffe take the perpendicular height of some certaine place or marke made in the metall as well at the Breech as at the Muzle aboue the said two nails And so you may againe lay the Peece thereby alwayes to haue the selfe-same position and so shoot as certaine at that marke by night as by day Q. 29. How would you make a shot at an Enemies light in a darke night not hauing any Candle Lanthorne or other light by you A. I would light two peeces of match the one as much longer then the other as the quantity of the dispart of the Peece set the longer vpon the vpper part of the Muzle-ring the shorter vpon the vpper part of the Base-ring trauersing or coining the Peece vntill I haue brought the light of the Enemies and the lights of the two matches all three in one and so I doubt not but to make a good shot thereat Q. 30. How would you choose and order a Peece to make a good shot at a moueable marke as at an enemies Ship vnder saile Boat rowing or Horse-man riding A. First would I choose such a Peece as in regard of the distance will be able in a straight line to reach the marke whose qualities I know Secondly hauing loaded the Peece I obserue how the Marke moueth Thirdly I will obserue the wind if it blow much whether it be against or with me or side-wayes and accordingly take aduantage for the impediment it may produce otherwise Then will I with the Dispart considered duely obserue some cloud or marke some point of Landskip that lieth in the course of his motion and when according to the swiftnesse thereof he is come so neere it as I guesse the shot and hee may meet at the marke I so giue fire wherein I may remember this secret of Nature that any Peece will shoot further from Sea to Land-ward then from Land to Sea-wards Q. 31. What say you to shooting at a marke vnder the leuell from aboue downwards how would you order matters to make an effectuall shot A. That kinde of shooting is farre more vncertaine and difficile then any other by reason of the smaller resistance the shot makes against the force of the powder naturally working vpwards which is towards the Breech if it were not there restrained it therefore of all other wayes shooteth least distance in a straight line vnlesse it be perpendicularly downwards or neerely so besides no Author or Practitioner else to my knowledge hath diuulged any good vse or order for the same But I haue obserued that the Randons for Imbasures do somewhat neerely decrease from degree to degree vnder the leuell with a double proportion to the decrease of the Morter Peeces mounture aboue from the best Randon vnto ninetie degrees Out of which obseruation and experience I haue framed this Table and for better helpe added an example A Table for Imbasures Degrees Paces 0 150 1 149 2 147 3 145 4 142 5 139 6 137 7 133 8 129 9 125 10 120 20 90 30 60 40 40 50 18 60 10 70 6 80 1 90 0 The vse illustrated by example At eight degrees Imbasement a shot at a marke being to be made with a Saker for which Peece the Table was made if the distance were lesse then 129 Paces then the Peece being able to reach the marke needs no aduantage but supposing it to be 140 Paces a lesse Imbasement must be then giuen namely at about seuen degrees to reach the marke as reason will conduce Q. 32. Can you make a reasonable shot at a marke which by reason of interposition of some hill house wall Rampart or other impediment you cannot see it A. Yes with a Morter Peece it is vsuall if it be within her reach And although the catriages of other Peeces will few admit to mount them so high as 20 degrees yet by sapping the Breech of the Peece that is by making a trench for the taile of the carriage to reuerse in being descended thereinto the wheeles standing alost or by preparing a Timber-frame so that the taile may be suncke as betweene two Timber-logs squared the wheeles reuersing vpon them any Peece may be so mounted to shoot at a mark out of sight further then any Morter Peece can reach or by taking a Peece out of her carriage and mounting her accordingly vpō skids at pleasure to the eleuation desired these may shoot Granadoes Flaming or Venomous bals and Hedge hegs or such like most necessarily But amongst them the Canon Periors Perieraes and Bombards are chiefly to be therefore preferred Hauing then the distance giuen Stales and Signals are to be placed to shew where the marke is which way and how the shot lighteth short ouer or wide that such errour may at the next time be reformed Q. 33. How would you order things to shoot at a Squadron of the Enemies Souldiers and what Peeces would you choose A. According to the distance I would choose a Peece that in a straight line can shoot home if I may be it with Demy Culuering Saker or Falcon and plant my Peece as neere parallel to the champion Plaine as I can that the shot may range and shoot at girdle height vnlesse the ground be stony for then would I place my shot short of them that grazing amongst the stones that stones may doe them more spoile then the shot of it selfe can doe by farre but in no case would I shoot wide or ouer them for that were both losse and shame also Q. 34. At the time of ioyning of two Armies in Battell how would you plant and mount your Ordnance A. There are diuers opinions therein some say it is best to plant them in the Front to disorder the Enemie and cause them to breake their Ranks at first which others disliking say that will hinder their own party from many aduantages and difficult to retire them some would plant them in the Flanckes And some would haue some of them in the Front some in the Flanke And lastly