Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	division_n	front_n	rear_n	2,538	5	13.5524	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67733	The yong [sic] souldier	Raynsford, John.	1642 (1642)	Wing Y132; ESTC R6292	10,256	17

In case there be not a full number of Captains then these places are to be supplied for the time by the Lieutenants according to the Seigniority of their Captains And where the number of Captains is full in that case the Lieutenants are to march and serve with their own Captains But it is to be observed that when the Regiment marcheth then the place of the Coronell is in the Van of the Right wing of Musquetiers The Lieutenant Coronell in the Rear of the left wing of Musquetiers The Sergeant Major neer the Coronell as before The other Captains keep their places And if the Regiment be put into two Divisions The Coronell leads the first and the Lieutenant Coronell the second If put into three Divisions then the Sergeant Major leads the third The Captains and Lieutenants to be placed according to their severall Antiquities respectively as aforesaid When a Regiment marcheth half of the Musquetiers shall march before and the other half in the Rear of the Pikes marching at least ten in Front if the ground afford it The Officer who leads the Regiment shall not be above six foot before the first Ranke of the same and he that marcheth in the Reare of any part or division of the Regiment shall not likewise be further than six foot behind the last Ranke of those which march before him If the Regiment be divided the second division shall march within ten paces of the last rank of the first division If one Regiment march after another the distance is to be eighteen paces to wit six foot for the Officer that marcheth in the Reare of the former Regiment six foot for the Officer that leads the Front of the next Regiment and the rest of the space to be left between those Officers The distance of the Van Battell and reare of the whole Army in marching is to be behind one another twenty five paces where the ground affords it the Regiment shall march close and in one Body the Files three foot the ranks six foot in distance one from another Between every five Files of musquetiers at the most and three Files at least there shall be left a space of six foot When the Regiment stands in Battell being ready to fight the distance betwixt ranks shall be brought to three foot as also the Files of musquetiers but the Files of Pikes are to stand at a foot and a halfe If the Regiment consists of two divisions each division shall stand in Battle fifty foot distance one from the other All the Captains and other Officers of the Army in all their marchings whether it be in single companies in divisions or Regiments to take care that all the Souldiers of that company Division or Regiment move together as well reare as Front observing their due distances All Troops and Companies marching either in greater or lesser Bodies respectively shall not onely take care their Files and Ranks keep their true distance and move equally even and together but in case the Files fall off too much one from another to either hand the Souldiers are to be instructed to recover their true ground and distance not all at once but by degrees in their march insensibly closing to either hand as there is occasion Likewise for the Ranks those which finde themselves to be behind by marching a little faster must set themselves even with their Right hand man and if they find themselves before must by the slownesse of their march take up their Right hand man even to them but not to do it by standing still and lesse by falling back for so their own disorder doth not only appeare the more but they likewise fall foule upon the Ranks behind them FINIS