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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04863	The theorike and practike of moderne vvarres discoursed in dialogue vvise. VVherein is declared the neglect of martiall discipline: the inconuenience thereof: the imperfections of manie training captaines: a redresse by due regard had: the fittest weapons for our moderne vvarre: the vse of the same: the parts of a perfect souldier in generall and in particular: the officers in degrees, with their seuerall duties: the imbattailing of men in formes now most in vse: with figures and tables to the same: with sundrie other martiall points. VVritten by Robert Barret. Comprehended in sixe bookes.	Barret, Robert, fl. 1600.	1598 (1598)	STC 1500; ESTC S106853	258,264	244

best abilitie and knowledge declare vnto you such matters as I haue found by mine owne experience eyther learned from the directions of braue Commaunders vnder whom I haue serued or gathered out of the best authors which haue written vpon this subiect VVarre Indeede at the beginning of these our speeches I did not then thinke to haue marched so farre into this Martiall field for my fiue or sixe yeares discontinuance from action had almost driuen all the courses order and methode thereof out of my mind and memorie but your curious demaundes and questions haue both drawen me on sharpened my wit and refresht my memorie wherein if I haue erred or may misse hereafter as no man but erreth some more some lesse I submit my selfe to the censure and correction of men more experimented and of better parts then my selfe Gent. Truely Captaine you say very well and I would we had many of no meaner partes nor of no worse meaning then your selfe in mine opinion then no doubt but our common souldiers should be better instructed and be better dealt withall then they now are by some of their Captains But letting these matters passe I pray what order would you wish to be obserued in the trayning of our souldiers here with vs in the countrie sith we are commanded to traine and as yet I see litle good order obserued in the same Capt. Touching the true and orderly trayning of your people in this our Moderne Militia I haue in generall roued ouer some part thereof alreadie but not so particularly as such an action would require wherein I could heartily wish that as neere as possible we might we should reduce ourselues with such armes as we now vse vnto the forme manner and course of the auncient Romanes in their Militia and discipline of warre although ages seasons and inuentions haue altered much and many weapons by them vsed Gent. I pray what order did the Romanes obserue in their warres and how were they armed Capt. The Romanes deuided their foot people of warre into men armed with heauie armour or as we may tearme it armor complete and into light armed men Those which were light armed they called by one common name Velites vnder which word they vnderstood all such as carried slinges darts bowes crosse-bowes and such like the greatest part of whom were armed with a skull or close Cellat for the head and had besides their other weapons a shield or Target vpon their left arme to defend and couer themselues and did fight or skirmish in straggling sort a good distance from those that were armed with heauie or complete armour in Squadron Vnto those may we well compare our shot especially them of the forlorne hope or Enfans Perdus as the French doe terme them Their people armed with heauie or complete armour had first a Cellat or Burgonet which couered their head and reached ouer their shoulders then for their bodie a Cuyrasse whose flappes or tasses couered their thighes euen down to the knees their legges and armes were armed with Greaues and Vambraces and for their defence they carried a shield of foure foote long and two foot and a halfe broad bound about with a band of yron and for weapon they had a sword not ouer long girt vnto their left side a short dagger vpon their right and in their hand a Iauelin or Dart which they called Pilum the which at the beginning of their fight they did lance or dart at the enemie vnto these may we compare our Corslets and Pykes whereof we frame our battels or battaillions and our armed halbards partizans and other short weapon Commonly a Romane army consisted of two Romane Legions which was a Consuls armie and of two Auxiliarie legions which were of their friends or confederates Their Legion consisted at the first but of three thousand footmen and three hundred horse but afterwards encreased vnto 5.6 or 8000. foote Their legion they deuided into Cohortes Maniples and Centuries Euery legion of 6000. foote was deuided into ten Cohorts at 600. to euery Cohort and euery Cohort into sixe Centuries after 100. men to euery Centurie and euery Centurie into foure Maniples after 25. souldiers vnto euery Maniple or into fiue Maniples at 20. souldiers to euery Maniple Moreouer euery legion was deuided into 3. partes or orders of battels into Hastati Principes and Triarij The Hastati were set in the front of their armie in order of Squadrons thicke and sure behinde them were placed the Principes but with the order of their Squadrons more rare and thinner After these againe were ranged the Triarij but with the order of their Squadrons much more thinner then the Principes Now their slingers darters archers or crosse-bowes and such light armed were placed without these Battels or Squadrons on the flanks and front between the horsemen and their armed battell as we do or ought to do in mine opinion our shot some fil●ers of Pykes Halberds and such other short weapon Gent. What sort of men thinke you fittest to be chosen for souldiers and to be trayned and what order in their trayning Capt. I suppose men of the better sort from the age of eighteene yeares vnto thirtie yeares are fittest to be chosen Now the signes whereby to coniecture the persons most apt for warres by the Phisiognomie and proportion of bodie are these The eyes quicke liuely piercing the head and countenance vpright the breast broad and strong the shoulders large the armes long the fingers strong and synowie the belly thinne the ribbes large the thigh bigge the legge full and the foote leane and drie for whosoeuer is of this disposition and with these conditions cannot chuse but be nimble and strong which are two qualities chiefly to be required in a souldier I could wish that those Bandes which are appointed to be trayned for of the Officers I haue spoken before should be by their Captaine Muster-maister and other Officers trayned at the least once euery moneth or oftener as the weather and season will permit and euery Caporall with his Cabos de Camera to traine and instruct their Esquadra especially of shot once euery weeke or once euery fortnight at the least ensigning them the vse of their weapon and order of sleight skirmish For often practise maketh men readie especially and shot the which without readinesse and skill is a weapon of litle aduantage and in the hands of perfect souldiers is a weapon of great aduantage and of wonderfull execution Now the seuerall companies hauing bene well applyed and taught for a time by their Captaine and other officers I would wish should once euery three monethes meete and ioine some foure or fiue companies together in some conuenient place then and there to bring them into such formes as should be needfull for so many companies And once a yeare at the least all the companies of the whole shire to meete in