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A90047	Generall Lessley's direction and order for the exercising of horse and foot. Being a most exact, compendeous, and necessary direction for all such as are studiously devoted to the due exercise of armes, and principally intended for the young sort of the militia.	Newark, David Leslie, Baron, d. 1682.	1642 (1642)	Wing N837; Thomason E151_14; ESTC R20614	6,275	15

Generall LESSLEY'S DIRECTION AND ORDER For the exercising of HORSE AND FOOT BEING A most Exact Compendeous and Necessary Direction for all such as are studiously devoted to the due Exercise of ARMES and principally intended for the young sort of the MILITIA LONDON Printed by Richard Badger for L. Blaikelock 1642. To the Reader Deare Countrie-man MY zeale for the publike good hath invited me to expose this short but excellent Treatise to the publike view being without controversie the best of all moderne Tracts upon this Subject I need not amplyfie my selfe by way of Apologie in commendation of the worke where Lesleyes name shall command in chiefe nothing doubting but every noble spirit will willingly follow such a Leader to whose conduct and direction I leave you Farewell Generall LESSLEY'S DIRECTION AND ORDER For the exercising of a FOOTE COMPANY The Files being eight deepe And that they frame their Companies two parts Musketeers and the third part Pikes STand right in your Files Stand right in your Rankes Silence To the Right hand As you were Note when you are commanded to be as you were you are ever to turne to the contrary hand from whence you came To the left hand As you were To the right hand about As you were To the left hand about As you were Rankes to the right hand double As you were Rankes to the left hand double As you were Files to the right hand double As you were Files to the left hand double As you were Halfe Files to your right hand double your front As you were Halfe Files to the left hand double your front As you were Rankes to the Right hand countermarch When you will countermarch to the right hand the first ranke of Leaders only must advance one step ●orwards with the right leg and then turne and all the other rankes must march first up to the place from whence the first ranke did countermarch before they turned Rankes to the left hand countermarch Observe that if you will now countermarch to the left hand the first ranke must step forward one step with the left leg and then turne and all the other rankes behind must come up to that place before they turne where the Serjants stands Observations before you wheel IF you will wheel to the right hand you must double your rankes to the left and if you wheel to the left you must double to the right Rankes to the right hand double Files close to the right hand to the close order Rankes close up to the swords point Note that when you will wheel to the right hand that the Leader of the right hand file must keepe his Musket-rest fixt to the ground and must only turn his body without loosing of any ground and also the left hand leader if you wheel to the left To the right hand wheel or To the left hand wheel Having wheeled to bring them to their former order you must use these words of command First to the Rankes that were closed to the swords Rankes backwards to your double distance of twelve foot Open your Files to the left hand of three foot And then speaking to the Rankes that were first doubled Rankes as you were Having performed the former motions you may afterwards exercise your company of Pikes and Musketeers together or each a part To begin with the Pikes you may command them to doe these motions standing viz. Advance your Pikes Order your Pikes Shoulder your Pikes Charge your Pikes Order your Pikes Trayle your Pikes Cheeke your pikes But these motions are to bee performed both standing and marching Charge your Pikes Shoulder your pikes To the right hand charge Shoulder your Pikes To the left hand charge Shoulder your Pikes To the Reere charge Shoulder your Pikes Port your pikes Comport your pikes Charge your Pikes Shoulder your Pikes Stand. Charge under hand Charge your pikes at the foot Shoulder your Pikes Order your Pikes 1. First note that in Charging halfe the Ranks only must charge their Pikes the other hindmost halfe of their rankes doe but port their Pikes that is they carry them so couched over the heads of the formost as may give them no offence in charging or retering besides this way the Pikes are not so subject to be broken by the shot of the enemy as when they are advanced 2. They must likewise observe when they charge standing to fall backe with the right Leg and marching to step forward with the left 3. The exercising of your Musketerees is likewise performed either standing or marching that is either by Rankes or by Files after three manner of wayes alwayes blowing your match moving your right leg formost when you are ready to present 1. Having an enemy in your front 2. In your Reere 3. Vpon the right or left hand Flanke Note also that the first Ranke falling back with their right legs lyes on gives fire and the first ranke falling away the second in ranke presenting having their pans guarded blowes their matches o●ens their pans and steps forward with their right legs into the place of the first ranke lyes on gives fire and fall away whiles the rest of the body of Musketeeres move up to their places and so two rankes at a time making ready you may give fire so often as you lif● Observe that in charging of an Enemy that the right hand Wing fall off to the right hand and the left hand Wing to the left and the Officers are to give the same word of Command The Musketeers are to have a singular care to carry the mouthes of their Muskets aloft aswell when they are shouldred as in priming as also when they keepe their pans guarded and come up to give fire Moreover if an enemy shall appeare on either your right or left Flanke and that you resolve to maintaine your ground and would gall him from either Flanke it is performed by giving first the words of command To the right hand or left hand which you please and then making an intervall of six foot distance betweene the middlemost leader of the halfe Files for the halfe Ranke on the left hand doe fall away betweene the Files to the Reere before the Pikes and the halfe Ranke on the right hand on the right Flanke likewise you may give fire from either or both Flankes as ●ften as you list Againe if an enemy should shew himselfe in your Reere the like is done by this terme of direction To the right hand about And having given fire upon them fall away to the place where the Front stood even in the same Manner as you did before In advancing towards an enemy two Rankes must alwayes make ready together and advance ten paces forward before the body at which distance a Serjant or when the body is great some other Officer must stand to whom the Musketteers must come before they present and give fire first the first Ranke a●d while the first ranke gives fire the second keepe their Muske●s

close to their rests and their pans guarded and assone as the first are fallen away the second presently presents gives fire and fall after them Now as soone as the two first rankes doe moove from their places in the front the two Rankes next it must unshoulder their Muskets and make ready so as they may advance forward ten paces as before as soone as ever the two first Rankes are fallen away and are to doe in all points as the former so all the other rankes through the whole company or division must doe the s●me by two so●e after another A way how to give fire retreating from an enemie AS the Troope marcheth the hindmost ranke of all keeping still with the Troope maketh ready and being ready the souldiers in tha● ranke turne altogether to the right hand and give fire marching presently away a good round pace to the front and there place themselves in rankes together just before the front as soone as the first ranke turne to give fire the ranke next it make ready and doth as the former and so all the Rest Last of all the Troope or wing of the Musketeers make ready altogether standing and the first without advancing gives fire in the place it standeth in and speedily as may bee yet orderly falls away all the Rankes doing the same successively one after another A manner how to give fire either from the right or left hand Flank The Company or division marching the utmost file next the enemy are commanded to make ready keeping still along with the body till such time as they be ready and then they turne all to the right or left hand according to the sight of their enemy either upon the right or left flanke and give fire altogether when they have discharged they stirre not but keepe their ground and charge their peeces againe in the same place they stand now as soone as the aforesaid file doth turne to give fire the utmost next it makes ready alwayes keeping along with the troope till the bringers up be past a little beyond the leaders of the file that gave fire last And then the whole file must turne and give fire and do in all points as the first did and so all the rest one after another A Serjant or if the troope be great some better qualified Officer must stand at the head of the first File and as soone as the second file hath given fire and hath charged hee is to lead forwards the first file up to the second file and so to the rest one after another till he hath gathered up againe the whole wing and then he is to joyne them again in equall front with the Pikes The manner of Ordering a Regiment IF there be ten Companies in a Regiment consisting of a 1000. or 1200. men they must be drawne into two divisions five Companies in one division and because it is not fit that the eldest Captaines should be all in one Division They are thus divided viz. Collonell I. V. III. Serjant Major Lievt Collonell IV. VII VI. II. 1. The first Captaines Company next to the Collonells Company 2. The second Company the left hand of the second division 3. The third next to the Serjant Major in the first Division 4. The fourth next the Lievtenant Collonell in the second Division 5. The fifth in the middle of the first Division 6. The sixth next the second Captaine in the second Division 7. The seventh next the fourth in the second Division The Seriants are to march upon the Hankes of the Divisions as neere as they can to their owne men to keepe them in their rankes and from stragling The Drummers betwixt the third and fourth Rankes But if the Regiment march in Battaile then in the flankes of the Regiment as equall with the third ranke in the Front and so likewise in the flankes of the Pikes The Demonstration of Places in a Regiment THe first Captaine leades the Van of Pikes The second the Reere of the Pikes The third the first division of Musketeers The Collonells Captaine shall leade the Vanguard of the Musketeeres in the right wing upon the left hand of the third Captaine The fi st Leader to lead the second division of Musketeers The second to bring up the Reere of all The third to leade up the second division of Pikes The fourth to bring up the right wing of the Musketeers But because the absence of Captaines may be such as the Regiment may want the principall places of leading it is in the Collonells will to dispose of the places of leading as hee shall find fitting The Serjant major of every Regiment to have a speciall care before the Regiment moves out of the Quarter to call upon the Captaines for their odd men of every Company to make Files of them And for the over plus which cannot be above in number shall march in the Reere of the Regiment before the Officer that brings up the Regiment not disbanding themselves Vpon the very motion that the Drummes begin to beat a march the hindermost Rankes shall march forwards together as well as the first Rankes that the hinder most Rankes need not come or march away faster then the formost The distance betweene the Rankes in marching shall bee six foote one from the other so that the butt-ends of the pikes shall almost touch the heeles of them that March before them The files shall bee no more than three foot distance one from the other When a Regiment marcheth in division then the halfe of the Musketeeres shall march before the Pikes and the Pikes in the midst and the other halfe of the Musketeeres to bee in the Reere of the Pikes Observing well that they must March ten in front at the least if the way be fit thereunto keeping alwayes the distances both in Ranke and file as aforesaid The Officer that shall leade any part of the Regiment shall take up no more ●lace than the space of a Ranke which is six foot to the end they may follow one another the better and so neither loose time nor place in marching As for the Officer that shall march after any part of the Regiment or Division he shall follow the last Ranke of them that march before him observing the distance of six foote to the end that betwixt him and the Officer that shall leade any part or devision of the Regiment following there may be likewise six foot and so betweene the first and second division there must be eighteene foot distance If the Regiment be divided and lead in two troopes the second division of the Regiment shall follow the first about the distance of ten or twelve paces and no larger The distance betweene the Regiments that march one after another shall be eighteene or twenty paces to wit six foot for the Officer that marcheth in the Reere of the Regiment and six foot for the Officer that leades in the front of the next Regiment and the