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A20495 Directions for musters Wherein is shevved the order of drilling for the musket and pike. Set forth in postures, with the words of command, and brief instructions for the right use of the same. 1638 (1638) STC 6903; ESTC S116596 11,637 60

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your Musket Vncock your Match Return your Match Shoulder your Musket So make ready as before March with your Rest in your right hand Carrie your Rest with your Musket Vnshoulder your Musket Poise your Musket Rest your Musket Draw forth your Match Blow your Match Cock your Match Trie your Match The Sentinell posture The manner how to perform these postures both of Pike and Musket is fully shewed in the figures annexed These postures in service are reduced to these three more generall words namely Make ready Present and Give fire Having attained the use of their Armes they must be taught their militarie Motions To do this they must be ordered into a Body composed of Files Aelian cap. 5. A File is a sequence of Men placed right after a Leader every one according to his worth and consisteth at the most of ten men which are thus distinguished Number of place Number of dignitie 1 Leader 1 2 5 3 9 4 8 5 Middle-man 4 6 Middle-man 3 7 7 8 10 9 6 10 Bringer-up 2 A Rank is a row of Side-men standing one by another in a right line shoulder to shoulder and are thus distinguished Number of place 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. 2. 6. 10. 7. 3. 4. 8. 9. 5. 1. Number of dignitie That which follows next is distance whereof there be three kinds most usuall Open order which is 6 foot in Rank and File Order which is 3 foot in Rank and File and Close order which is a foot and half between File and File Open order is used when a companie is to be exercised Order when they come to fight or wheel Close order in File is onely for the Pikes when they come to charge the enemie or to receive a charge In a long March the Files are at Order and the Ranks at Open order The usuall way to measure these distances is thus Open order between File and File is when the Souldiers stretching out their arms their hands touch each other and between the Ranks when the butt-end of the shouldred Pikes almost reach to their Leaders heels And for Order between the Files when the Souldiers setting their arms a kembo their elbows touch and in Ranks when they come up to their Leaders swords point Close order is shoulder to shoulder The Motions are of 4 kinds namely Facings Doublings Countermarches and Wheelings Suppose a Companie of 100 men u Orders 1623. which is the number thought fittest whereof 50 to be Muskets and 50 Pikes being drawn up by Files into a Body at their Open order they stand thus Stand right in your Files Make even your Ranks Silence Front Right Flank Rere Left Flank To the right hand This motion is performed by turning all at once to the right hand keeping the left foot fixed Thus they are ready to receive a charge on the Flank To reduce them you command As you were To face them to the left you command To the left hand And reduce them as before To the right hand about To reduce them you command By the left hand as you were There be many other Facings as To the right and left by ½ Ranks outward and inward By the Half-files To the Angles To the Centre and the like which are here omitted for brevitie sake Ranks to the right double The second Rank passeth into the first the fourth into the third and so successively every man standing at his Leaders right hand Ranks as you were By the left hand they fall into their places Ranks to the left double Which is done as the former onely the hand is changed They are reduced as before every man that doubled falls into his place by the right hand Middle-men to the right hand double the Front Middle-men as you were Middle-men to the left hand double the Front Bringers-up to the right or left double the Front Which makes the Figure as the former but that the last Rank begins the motion and standeth within the first Rank Middle-men to the right or left entire or by division double the Front Files to the right double The second File moveth into the first every man behind his Right-side-man the fourth into the third and so successively Files as you were Files to the left double Which is as the former onely the hand changed Files as you were Files to the right hand Countermarch Every File-leader advanceth with the right leg turning to the right hand about and marcheth untill he come into the ground where the last Rank stood the other Ranks move up to the File-leaders ground and there turn as the first successively Files to the left Countermarch Ranks to the right or left Countermarch Files to the right left or middle close to your order Ranks close forward to your order To the right hand wheel All the body wheels towards the right upon the right hand File-leader as the Centre To the left hand wheel To the right or left about wheel There be divers other Doublings Countermarches and Wheelings but because the Trained bands are not so capable of them and there be many books published on that subject they are here for brevitie omitted Concerning Skirmish for which they are now in fitting distance there be divers and sundrie Forms both against Horse and Foot Usually the fight is begun by drawing out some Files disbanded or else by 2 Ranks advancing 10 paces before the body which make ready together a Sergeant or some other Officer there stands to whom these 2 first Ranks come up then present and give fire first the first Rank then the second so fall off into the Rere into their own Files So soon as the two first Ranks advance forwards the two next Ranks must make ready then advance forward 10 paces and do as the former two Ranks so all successively They may then fire even with the Front of Pikes then on the Half-files or as they shall be commanded To fire to the Rere the last Rank makes ready keeping still with the bodie being ready they present to the right about then fire and march a round pace and place themselves in Front in the same order as they were ranked so all the rest successively To fire by Flanks the outermost File towards the enemy makes ready marching with the body then faces and presents to the hand commanded and fires the next File to that doeth the like and being marched clear off that File gives fire so all the rest An Officer is to lead up the Files which have given fire either in the same order they stood in or to conveigh them beyond the left Files of Musketiers or within the Pikes or beyond the Pikes on the left Flank as shall be thought best The Musketiers must ever be carefull whether being shouldred or making ready to mount the muzzle of their Musket The Front Half-files of Pikes are onely to charge their Pikes the Rere Half-files to port them in time of fight ¶ Touching the untrained forces