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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06964	The souldiers accidence. Or an introduction into military discipline containing the first principles and necessary knowledge meete for captaines, muster-masters, and all young souldiers of the infantrie, or foote bandes. Also, the cavallarie or formes of trayning of horse-troopes, as it hath beene received from the latest and best experiences armies. A worke fit for all noble, generous, and good spirits, that loue honor, or honorable action. G.M.	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1625 (1625)	STC 17388; ESTC S102642	32,968	76

what favour cannot perswade authoritie and punishment may inforce But to bring ignorant man and more ignorant horse wilde man and madd horse to those rules of Obedience which may crowne every Motion and Action with comelie orderly and profitable proceedings Hic Labor Hoc Opus To come then to the office or dutie of that Commander who taketh vpon him to Trayne or Drill a Troope of Horse he shall vnderstand that there be three things referred to his Iudgement First Election of Men and Horses Secondly Arming And lastly the Formes or manner of Tray●ning For the Election of Men and Horses they mu●● be sutable to the Armes and Weapons defensiu● and offensiue which they carrie which becaus● they are of divers kindes and divers dignities And in as much as Horse-troopes consist all of one entire Bodie or Armes and not of divers Bodies or divers Armes in one Troope as Foote Companies doe I will first giue you the names of every severall Troope of Horse and after elect Men Horse and Armes agreeable with each severall dignitie In the old Warres and before Fire was got to that height of excellence to which it is now arived the first and principall Troope of Horse were called Men at Armes or Gentlemen at Armes because the bodie of the whole Troope consisted of Noblemen Knights and Gentlemen A Prince for the most part being ever their Commander they were armed with defensiue Armes at all pe●ces C●●p a Pe from head to foote that is to say with close Caskes on their heads Gorgets about their necks faire Brestplats of Hargobus proofe and Backpeeces of lesse proofe for their bodies Pouldrons for their shoulders Vambraces for their arms Gauntlets for their hands Taces for the belly Cui●ses for the knees and Greaues for the legs and feete ●nd about their wa●ts rich Bases of Velvet Sattin S●●ke or other s●uffe and Girdles and Hangers For offensiue Armes they had faire guilt Swords and Daggers strong Launces headed with Steele a Case of short Pistols with Priming-box Flaske key and Bullet bag a well armed Battellaxe and a strong payre of Spurres on his heeles with long neckes and long Rowells His Horse should be strong well shaped of great courage and throughly mand and ridden he should by all meanes be stoned because tyring hurts them not of lustie age and faire trotting and of these Horses the Neopolitan is the best the Greeke next then the Spanyard the English the Almaine or the French For his furniture it should be either a Barbe of Steele or a Caparison of Bend-leather arming from the pole of the necke to the pomell of the Saddle and so round about his brest as also from the hinder part of the Saddle over all his buttockes and downe to the Cambrell He shall haue a Shaffron for his forehead and for the other part of his head an headstall and raynes of broad leather the raynes being lyned with a small chayne of Iron to prevent cutting and in his mouth a faire Bitt on his backe a Steele-saddle with three Girtes of double Webb with Stirrops Stirrop-leathers and for his Tayle a faire Saker with rich Tassels and a strong Twynsell This was the ordinarie Arming of the Gentlemen at Armes for the Field onely some at their owne discretions would to the former peeces adde a Placcard to cover the brestplate which was an advancement of the proofe but not an inforcement from Commandment Now if these Gentlemen were to arme for Triumph before the King or Queene then to the peeces defensiue before shewed they ought to haue if it were for the Tylt a Grandguard for the Breast a Pasguard for the left shoulder and a Maine-fere for the left hand If it were for the Tourney then onely a Buffe for the chynne and a lockt Gauntlet for the right hand The second Troope of Horse were called Launciers or Demilaunciers they were armed at all peeces from the head to the knee like the Gentlemen at Armes and their offensiue weapons were a Launce a case of short Pistolls a Battle-axe Sword and dagger strong horses well ridden for the field armed with a Steele-Saddle Headstall Raynes Bit Brest-plate Crooper Trappings Girtes Stirrops and Leathers The third sort of auncient Horsemen were called Light-horse and they were armed for defence with Burgenets or Steele-caps Gorgets Curats or Plate-coats Gauntlets or Gloues of Male for offensiue Armes they had a slender chasing staffe a single Pistoll and sometimes a case a Sword and dagger Their horses were nimble light Gueldings fayre trotting and well ridden the furniture for the Horse was a strong Headstall and raynes a Bitt a Morocco Saddle Pettrell Crooper light trappings and other necessaries sutable The men to be handsome Yeomen or Serving-men● light timberd and of comely shape where it skils not much for the tallnes or greatnes of the bodie but for the height of spirit and the goodnesse of the inclination In which little David many times puts downe the greatest Goliah Thus for your knowledge nor your example I haue shewed you the severall Compositions and armings of Horsemen according to the auncient times when the Bow and the Hargobus had the first place and the Musquet and other fierie weapons lay obscured But to come to these our present times wherein the vttermost strength of the Fire is found out and explaned and to shew you that which you must onely imitate and follow you shall know that all our Horse-troopes are reduced to one of these three Formes The first and principall Troope of horsemen for the generalitie are now called Cuirassiers or Pistolleirs and these men ought to be of the best degree because the meanest in one of these Troopes is ever by his place a Gentleman and so esteemed They haue for defensiue Armes Gorget Curats Cutases which some call Culets others the Guard-de-Reine because it armeth the hinder parts from the wast to the Saddle-crootch then Pouldrons Vambraces a left hand Gauntlet Taces Cuisses a Caske a Sword Girdle and Hangers For offensiue armes they shall haue a case of long Pistolls fierlockes if it may be but Snaphaunces where they are wanting● The Barrels of the Pistolls would be 26. inches long and the Bore of 36. Bullets in the pound Flaske Priming-box Key and Moulds their horses should be stoned and of the best R●ces fayre trotting and well ridden for the Warres that is to say being able to passe a strong and swift Cariere to stop close to retire at pleasure and to turne readily on both hands either in large Rings or in strayt especially the Turne called Terra Terra the horse shall haue Saddle Bridle Bit Petrell Crooper with leathers to fasten his Pistols and his necessary sacke of carriage with other necessary things according to the forme of good Horsemanship The second sort of which many Troopes of Horse are compounded are called Hargobusseirs or Carbines these men ought to be the best of the first