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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13122	1582. Ianuarij decimus. The pathwaie to martiall discipline Now newly imprinted, and deuided into three bookes. Wherevnto is added the order and vse of the Spaniards in their martiall affaires: which copie was lately found in the fort in Ireland, where the Spaniards and Italians had fortified themselues. The first booke: entreateth of the offices from the highest to the lowest, with the lawes of the field, arming, mustering, and training of souldiers. The second boore [sic]: entreateth of sundrie proportions and training of caleeuers, and how to bring bowes to a great perfection of seruice: also how to march with a campe royall: with diuers tables annexed for the present making of your battells, as otherwise to know how many paces they require in their march & battels from 500. to 10000. The third booke: comprehendeth the very right order of the Spaniards, how to traine, march, and encampe, with diuers tables therein contained.; Pathwaie to martiall discipline	Styward, Thomas.; Gutierrez de la Vega, Luis, b. ca. 1509. De re militari. English. aut; Lichefield, Nicholas.	1582 (1582)	STC 23414; ESTC S117930	83,311	166

be placed as before you appeareth This is of great strength so that the Enimie cannot enuiron you To imbattaile fiue hundred men in a quadrant proportion ACcording to the worthinesse of the Captaine the greater charge is committed as one Captaine to haue charge of 5. C. men vnder one Ensigne the which to bring into quadrant Battaile you must place 16. pikes in front making 4. rankes quadrant placing your Bils in the middest with your ensigne so haue you lift the body of your battaile .250 men your shot to be placed in the front and rereward .110 in the flankes of the battell 140. in the 8. wings the which being charged may dischage and retire whereby to be rescued by the lest they may in this proporiton march any way vnto them needfull be it either to trauaile or els for to winne grounds by any aduantage To imbattaile 500. men in a quadrant proportion To place the like number in an hearse or square Battaile SOme time by reason of the ground it is necessarie to bring such a number into an hearse or twofolde battaile which may bee more auailable then the quadrant battaile To bring them into this present proportion you must place 13. pikes in breadth and 21. in length your Bils and Ensigne in the middest your shot in the Fronts and Wings Thus in order they may turne their faces and march any way to them needefull which practise may greatly auaile at neede as vnto great numbers apperteineth Thus leauing to treate any further of priuate bands here following I will shew some points and necessarie practises to great numbers conuenient to order ioine and imbattaile Laudata virtus crescit The end of the first booke ¶ In this booke is conteined certeine necessarie practises to bee exercised with such handes and regiments as vnto Coronels or Chieftaines to be committed to many exploites of seruice greatly auaileable SVch appointed to the leading and gouenment of numbers aforesaid with their bands suted weapons as accustomed The Captaines and Companies bee vnto them obedient and obserue their commaundements to all intents as if the Lord Lieutenant Generall were present And for that Captaines with their bands the better and more easily may bring their numbers into such order or battelles as the Sergeant maior by the Coronels or Chieftaines commaunded must do hereafter ensuing doth follow proportions to the assistance of the same And for Caliuers whose practise in the Skirmish be the first in the field and beginneth the fight the letters following in diuers proportions signifie such and shew to march skirmish inuade or retire in politike maner as to such doth apperteine as well by bands diuided in sundry parcels distantly in sunder as either may rescue other as also to retire by ranks rescewing as aforesaid And considering how by inuentions dayly deuised the exercises and subtelties of the same doe daily increase to the great perill of the vnexpert as we may dayly see these sundrie proportions following vnto some vnknowne may in times conuenient be exercised to bring to perfection such smal numbers so to profit in greater numbers which the vnperfect cannot accomplish Certeine necessarie points for to be exercised with numbers of Caleeuers and Archers to diuers intents of seruice in the field The first THis number vppon the sight of the Enimies must march three in a ranke casting themselues in proportion of a Ring so to abide there appointing themselues to approche still in araie there to discharge by Rankes so in the Rereward to charge readie to seruice againe marching round The voward The rereward The second THis nomber encountering the ring must discharge by rankes and after the first ranke hath discharged to retire betwixt the Rankes vntill they come to the rereward there to charge and followe his looseman to seruice againe Thus may you continually mainteine skirmish how little or great so euer your number be it giueth great incouragement to the souldiers standing but one shot and retireth Orders of shot verie necessarie for diuers intents of seruice in the fielde The Voward Theswo bands change tanks and place on their broad sides These bands of Archers be brought to seruice by the Caleeuers afore them THese two bands of calleuers set to recounter the enimie on their broad sides the frōts discharge and turn their faces retiring betwixt the other which aduance in like maner to y e reseue of the same Those retire charge againe to seruice thus practising the skirmish may bring the bands of archers to seruice to the great anoying and discomfiting of the enemie These bands of archers being brought to seruice by the calleuers although that the calleuers be counted to be of greater force thē they be of the archers be not vsed in the field so much as they haue bene yet hauing light shafts made to shoot 12 or 14 score may kepe their place shooting altogither ouer the heads of the caleeuers to the blemishing and very great anoie of the enemie Orders of shot verie neccessarie for diuers intents of seruice in the fielde These two bands discharged by rankes and return to the rereward and charge againe These two bands placed 5. in ranks like two hornes are to be brought to skirmish in proportion like as doth appeare the fronts or voward dischargeth the one retiring on the left hand the other on the right hand vnto therereward and there to charge againe euery one to follow his lodesman vnto seruice againe ⸫ Orders for shot verie necessarie for diuers intents of seruice auaileable The seauenth According to the number of the Enemies you must aunswere them with like proportion and numbers hauing great regard to obtaine hill winde water wood c the which greatly auaileth sometimes the aduantage of grounds is such that small numbers way repulse greater numbers The grounds large and plain make your maineward of shot larg strong the better to aunswer the enemie the frōts to discharge and retire to the rereward there to charge againe and being thus ioyned in skirmish with the enemie the Captaine and officers must foresee the best waye to repulse and ouerthrowe the enemy sending two winges to flanke the enemies to encounter them the which being wisely foreséene will greatly profit Orders of shot verie necessarie for diuers intents of seruice auailable These three bands marching at large maie wade through in skirmish or retire betwixt the rankes as occasion serueth either band rescewing other to charge in the Rereward and to aduance to seruice againe This may you continually maintain skirmish These practises and such like exercises in times conuenient may bring perfection to seruice with shot at need the rather through the good industrie and painefull trauaile of officers and the souldiers by whose gentle patience it is sooner obtained An order to imbattaile 600. men at the sodaine against horsemen and footmen IT is appointed vnto two Captaines to bring 600. men to conuey charge or doe