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A04069	A new inuention of shooting fire-shafts in long-bowes VVherein, besides the maner of making them, there is contained a briefe discourse of the vsefulnesse of them in our moderne warres, by sea and land. Published by a true patriot for the common good of his native countrey of England.		1628 (1628)	STC 14127; ESTC S119306	7,308	18

too hazzardous where the liues of men and honor of the field are layed at stake if the fire-shafts I speak of flee but tweluescore yards and I know by some good proofe that they will flee more than fourteen from any practis'd arme of common strength the Archiers may be placed behind foure ranks of Corslets as many as at once can charge their Pikes to purpose and from thence without impediment to any of their own either Pikes or Musquettiers performe as much as hath been said before And if the store an Archier beares about him will not suffice to maintaine the fight throughout one horse for euery hundred bowmen will beare munition as much as will serue the turne and when all failes they haue their Pike Head-piece to defend themselues for these a man may march withall besides his bowe and arrowes very easily Now because I am fallen into discourse of arranging men in squadron I may without detracting from any authorised discipline or from the more approued customes of our graduated martialists for I will propound it but in case that long bowes be receiued in stead of Corslets shew how in my opinion the Musquettiers may most commodiously shift station in a skirmish and open place for ranks that follow consequently for the whole body Bows aswell as Musquettiers to giue or gaine ground on an enemy insensibly And that I may be the better vnderstood I will expresse my selfe by a supposed mannuple of thirty Musquettiers fiue in file and fixe in front the formost ranke whereof hauing discharged shall seuer it selfe by three in file on either flanque so leauing space voide for the next succeeding ranke to aduance in euen front with the former of those files where they likewise hauing discharged their musquets shall file themselues on either flanque as did the first leauing like open way for them that follow to draw forward By which order of succession the first ranke will haue leasure to charge again resume his former place without retiring to the reare of all as usually they do and as indeed is requisite when they will giue ground for then the first ranke hauing discharged may turne away three on each flanque vnto the reare there rally themselues the rest each after other doing the like and taking place behind till the whole ground wheron they first began to skirmish be left voide and the way left free againe for the formost ranke without aduancing to discharge anew This I think sufficient to explaine my meaning I will therefore now proceed to shew the benefit of fire-shafts for a fortresse where they seem to mee incomparably vsefull as well within as without for they may be shot from behind a brest of defence without discouering any part of our body to the enemy No enemy can so shelter himselfe in his approches but that these fire-shafts may fall vpon him They will put to great trouble and hazzard the Cannoniers that plye the Artillery on batteries where bullets cannot hit them They will serue to set on fire the enemies tents and cabening And the blaze of them in the night will in all likelihood make such discouery that Musquettiers standing ready to leuell where they fall may aime at the enemy as by day keep perdues engeniers workmen and those that watch by night in such continuall awe as will greatly hinder if not wholly driue them from their watch and labour Yea with reason it may be thought they will facilitate all attempts by night for the eie of enemie will be so dazelled and his body so clearely discerned by the multitudes of them that men may boldly assaile an enemy by night and safely make retrait in all occasions Manie other and indeed indeterminable are the vses that by coniecture may be drawne from such like arrowes shot out of the long-bowe both by sea and land in particular to depriue an enemy of the vse of his sailes at a great distance for the canuas will take fire like tinder and vanish by enforcement of the winde in sudden flame if any arrow fasten in it as among many some assuredly will do I may therefore say that as other parts of that munition which hath been patternd out from heauen in former times haue in this latter age beene neerly resembled by ordinarie meanes on earth with great effect as thundring hailestones by shooting bullets and making whole townes brimstone salt and burning like the ouerthrow of the foure cities by mynes of powder consisting of brimstone salt-peeter and burnt coale so this newer imitation of sharpe arrowes with coales of Iuniper and of mingling hailestones with coales of fire both which wee reade of may be found in the practice for ease and variety of vse to be of great importance and in that opinion I recommend it to the welfare of my Country whose peculiar weapon of aduantage it will be at least for to supply our want of Horse which we neither can transport to forraine employment in conuenient numbers nor are by nature so enclin'd to tend with art and industry as other of our neighbours doe Sapienter idem How to make and shoote Fire-shafts out of the Long-bowe LEt the Fire-shafts haue one end feathered and shaped after the manner of an ordinary arrow and the other end fitted with a pipe of latten ten inched long or more at discretion a bearded head of iron fast glued into it with a socket of wood a touch-hole made close by it with some little reuerse to stop the arrow from piercing so deepe into a mans cloaths the flanques of a horse or other marke of easie passage as to choake the fire The shaft may be made fast within the pipe if men so please with hard waxe which melting as the pipe groweth hote will make it very difficult to draw the arrow from where it lights Arrowes to make a blaze by night as also those that are to shoote into the sailes of a ship or an enemies tent must haue the touch-hole within an inch of the shaft and the reuerse a little aboue the touch-hole to stay the arrow while the marke takes fire The pipe must be filled with this mixture bruised very smal hard ram'd in Gunpowder salt-peeter a like proportion brimstone halfe so much with some small quantity of camphir if men please to make it operate more strongly where the mark is wet If the mixture burne too quicke adde brimstone if too slowe adde powder To stop the touch-hole that the mixture runne not forth to take fire when you meane to shoote seeth cotten-candlewicke in vineger and gunpowder bruised very small and when it is throughly soaked and well dryed take a small quantity rolled a little in the former mixture and stop the touch-hole therewith The Fire-shaft being made and filled in this manner take the Bowe with a match well lighted into your left hand after the manner of Musquettiers then hold the Arrow ready nocked in the Bowe after the manner of Archers Lastly give fire returne your match and deliuer the Arrow

rankes will be no let at all to the Archier but help to keep him in an euen front and so they will lye ready to take vp againe when time shal be Now if the fire-shafrs which are proposed bee of that efficacy which I pretend no fairer engine was there euer vsed in warre the cost not great the incumbrance none at all they are neate portable and so mannageable that euen children may make their sport with them and youths of any growth may doe good seruice making their practice onely with the common arrowes than which there can bee no more noble recreation But if at festiuall times a Bull in stead of bayting him with dogges were tyed at stake or sheweld in with Archiers conueniently placed vpon a Common or other spacious place men might then make triall with their fire-shafts a braue and manlike sport where happely the madding of the enraged beast besides inuring men to conflict would teach some profitable stratagem for warre Whateuer martiall feates by land are left recorded of our nation in old times haue been most commonly atchieued by vertue of the Bowe which vertue may be artificially renewed if a grounded apprehension that bullets are more mortall take not from vs all consideration that arrowes may not onely bee deliuered more speedily more safely and in greater numbers at once but also will flee farther shot at randon than bullets reach point-blanke Aduantages which well obserued will frustrate all the efficacy by depriuing men of the vse of whatsomeuer other weapon for Bow-men placed behind a Paraper a stand of Pikes or mannuple of Musquettiers may showre down such incessant drops of fire like Sodoms raine vpon an enemie as will not onely annoy the Pikes and rout the Horse but altogether disable the Musquettier as may be gathered by the suppositions which comparatiuely I shall lay downe in that which followes insisting only vpon the regular imbattelling of men and leauing to discretion the difference of accidentall formes according to the variety of occurrents The form of a regular Squadron whose body consists of Corslets leaues a great space of ground before it voide and as much more supplied with idle hands and those idle hands exposed to ineuitable hazzard The whole space before the Corslets is and must necessarily be left voide lest the Musquettiers wearied wanting munition or otherwise ouercharged by any sudden incursion of Horse should hastily make retrait vpon the front of their owne Corslets and so depriue themselues of their owne defence for in that case the Corslets are no refuge This space before the Corslets being then so left voide the mannuples of Musquettiers being drawn forth to skirmish on the flanques in any imaginable manner the Corslets are but so many idle handes yet stand exposed to great mortality during the skirmish of the Musquettiers for Corslets are no musquet-proofe nor dare the Musquettiers draw forth so far before as to leaue them out of reach of the enemies musquet lest by some sudden fury of Horse themselues should be ouer-run ere they could make an orderly retrait But suppose they make an orderly retrait for continuall motion and agitation with often bruising of the Musquet against their bodies if nothing else will force them at the length to make retrait the succour they shall finde on the flanques or in the reare of the Corslets will assuredly be very small for the enemies Horse aduancing forward and discharging vpon a Carico will in short time so dishearten the Corslets wounding and maiming in the face and armes and other bared parts if not through the verie Corslet the formost brauest of them that the rest men may beleeue wil easily giue ground and open ranks to an vtter ouerthrow Or admit at the best that our Musquetties so discomfit the enemies that we put them to retrait I say not that our Corslets will then serue vs for no vse but a prudent Commander I thinke will either hold his aduantage with Musquettiers or pursue it to an execution with his Horse and then no weapon to the single sword though pistols pikes and euen musquet stockes are sometimes instruments of execution For a fortresse the chiefest vse of Corslets that I know is at an assault after battery where as well within as without they haue beene vsually employed amongst other weapons Whether they or other weapons be in that case more seruiceable I need not to contend it is sufficient that assault and battery is almost euery where layed aside They without make their approches vnderground to the ditch and throw the ditch if it be dry and if it haue water they passe a gallery to the wall of the fortresse and there myne and blow vp gaining their ground by hand-breadths and employ their Ordnance only against the flanquers and to cleare the Curtens for experience hath taught that this way though more slow makes an assured passage with lesse cost and losse of men chiefly of those most able bodies and valiant spirits which at an assault were commonly employed on both sides And this which hath been said of Corslets without may shew their small auaile within a fortresse where the ordinary defence is countermine retrenchment fire-workes and guns As for Corslets in a sally if the Musquettiers passe not the Rampar Reualins the vse is very little and if they passe beyond it is no more than hath beene said before in field-seruice These are the deficiences that some years since took vp my imagination and made me consider whether by the subuention of some other more proportionable engine the subalterne and slow discharging of the Musquet might not bee secur'd against the sudden fury and swift incursion of the Horse as also whether the voide ground and vacant time might not be more seruiceably supplyed with fighting hands and my opinion was that if the arrow could be so enforced with fire-workes as might giue no impediment to the flight quick deliuery the thing were found But hauing my self no skill in fire-works had not mine owne ouer-aboundant leisure inuited mee since that to tamper somewhat in such kinde of engenry I had layed aside my conceipt of long-bowes which I now communicate beginning as before with the examination of their benefit for the body of a squadron in field-seruice where it is euident that the Musquetters may be placed before the front with a mutuall defence for as the Musquettiers are defended by the arrowes from ouer their heads against the enemies horse so the Archiers are defended by the bodies of the Musquettiers who are in no more danger but yeeld more shelter than before against the enemies bullets and which is the chiefest aduantage in fight all hands shal be employed at once for at the same time with the Musquettiers the Archers may shoot ouer such vollies of fiery arrowes as shall though lesse mortall giue an enemy no lesse occasion to looke about him than the bullers Or because a totall innouation of armes and order may seem