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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28175	A light to the art of gunnery wherein is laid down the true weight of powder, both for proof and action, of all sorts of great ordnance : also the true ball and allowance for wind, with the most necessary conclusions for the practice of gunnery, either in sea or land-service : likewise the ingredients and making of most necessary fire-works, as also many compositions for the gunner's practice, both at sea and land / by Capt. Thomas Binning ...	Binning, Thomas.	1676 (1676)	Wing B2934A; ESTC R4473	112,096	190

Effigiem spectas praestat spectare Laborem Ingenio pollet omnibus Arte praeit THOMAE BINNING SCOTT VERA EFFICIES Anno Dom 1675. Anno Aetutis suae 55 A Light To the Art of GUNNERY Wherein the most necessary points belonging to a Gunner either in Sea or land Service are made Practicable And faithfully set forth By Capt. Tho. Binning A LIGHT TO THE Art of Gunnery WHEREIN Is laid down the True Weight of Powder both for Proof and Action of all sorts of Great Ordnance Also the True Ball and allowance for Wind. WITH The most necessary Conclusions for the Practice of Gunnery either in Sea or Land-Service LIKEWISE The Ingredients and making of most necessary Fire-Works As also many Compositions for the Gunner's Practice both at Sea and Land By Capt. THOMAS BINNING Mariner Licensed Sept. 28. 1675. Roger L'Estrange London Printed by John Darby for the Author and are to be sold by Andrew Forrester at his Shop in Kings-street Westminster next door to the Mitre-Tavern 1676. TO THE High Potent and Noble Prince JOHN Duke of Lauderdale Marquess of March Earl of Lauderdale and Guilford Lord Thirselstane Musleburgh Bolton and Petersham Lord President of his Majesties Most Honourable Privy Councel of Scotland and sole Secretary of State for that Kingdom one of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Councel of England Gentleman of his Majesties Bed-Chamber and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter May it please your Grace WHen I consider the many Reasons and convincing Arguments both Ancient and Modern besides the Commands and Examples laid down in Holy Scripture of the dutiful Obedience Subjects owe unto their lawful Kings not only by the chearful assistance of their Estates and Capacities but if need require without fear and doubting to put their Lives in hazard for the maintenance of their Prince's Honour and the well-being of their Country I conclude your Grace in your time to have been herein a perfect Pattern But when I make reflection upon those many unmerited and undeservedly continued Favours through your Grace's benevolent Aspect received from His Majesty and Royal Highness Knowing also that your Grace is a sure Cherisher and Supporter of Art even in the weakest Endeavours I have been encouraged to offer to your Gracious Patronage and Protection these my Observations of Gunnery the use whereof may in time be serviceable to all His Majesties Subjects but more especially to those of His Majesties Ancient Kingdom my Native Country the flourishing whereof hath been observed to be your Graces constant Care which maugre all oppositions of Envy hath not wanted its good Effects The most of what I here present your Grace are of my own Experience and have not been formerly published and which I have so demonstratively laid down that they will bear the severest tryal of Reason and Art And as they are the humble Offering of a Mind truly grateful so I question not your Grace's favourable Acceptance which will be an Encouragement for me to study something further in this Art more methodically digested Pardon I beseech your Grace this Presumption being the mere Product of my Loyalty and Duty And that your Grace may long and happily live and constantly enjoy the benign Aspects of his Majesty and Royal Highness shall be the Prayers of him who resolves always to be Your Grace's Humble and Obedient Servant Tho. Binning To the Reader Judicious Reader I Am perswaded there are none though but mean Artists that will question the worth of the Art of Gunnery being founded upon the two principal Pillars of the Mathematicks viz. Arithmetick and Geometry For by this Art and good Artists the Artillery hath gained Battels Towns Castels Citadels and Forts yea the strong Trenches of a strong Army forced opened and stormed by the weaker Army to the ruine of the Intrenched Forces which was seen at the Battel of Lutzen This Battel was at Lutzen in November 1631. where the Serene and Potent Gustavus Adolfus King of Sweden was killed for there the Swedes Gunners did so artifically ply their Ordnance that the Swedes Army stormed the Imperialists in the most secure Trenches that could be made and a stronger Army within than those without and only by the Artificial and Industrious Carriage of the Gunners By which you may perceive that there is as much lieth on the using of the Ordnance either by Sea or Land to the safety of the Ship Garison or Army and annoyance of the Enemy as upon any thing else In this little Peece you may find the framing those Draughts the Calculating those Tables for Powder and Ball and laying out those Height-Rules both for Powder and Shot with the True Wind of every Gun with the Dimensions of their Fortifications in giving Powder not having regard at all to the Weight of the Peece further as for the Draught of the Ordnance likewise what is useful to a Gunner either by Sea or Land and how the Gunner may lay or level his Peece to shoot at a Mark also several Questions a Gunner ought to give some account of ere he be admitted As also to use his Mortar-Peece and Pattard with Fire-Works Offensive and Defensive Whereby I am perswaded any that will take notice of the use of the Quadrant and Quadrat and Observations thereon will find as Artificial Recreations in this little Peece as in any hath been written hitherto on this Subject It is visible the great harm that cometh by breaking of Guns in firing is the ignorance of those Gunners and the great allowance of Powder for if a True-Fortified Peece of Ordnance shall have to 9 lb Ball 7 lb of Powder the Question is What ought to be given to a Reinforc'd Peece shooting the same Ball This and other such Businesses moved me to write that thereby Gunners might be more circumspect I have not done this that thereby I may add any thing to the Artificial Gunner but that the younger Brethren may by reading and observing what is here made plain learn to do their Duty If this Peece do instruct any yet ignorant I shall be glad if it please the Readers fancy I have content but if it displease any critical obstinate Maliguer of the Art I shall take no more notice of him but desire he may amend himself and this also Nevertheless conclude as thou findest and consider the good will of Thy Friend T. B. To the Praise of his Country-Man Capt. Thomas Binning INto this little Book I plainly see Inventions rare with Art of Gunnery Grounded upon two Pillars that must stand While God and Nature Earth and Sea command Ar'thmetick Geometry with new Inventions Thy King and Countries Good being thy Intentions Therefore Minerva claims Ingine and Wit And Mighty Mars does own this Subject fit Seeing from our Country-Man it doth redound Whose Country hath been formerly renown'd Let us not keep from him deserved Bays Which Strangers would afford as his due praise Because he hath given a Light to