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A16196	Baculum familliare, catholicon siue generale A booke of the making and vse of a staffe, newly inuented by the author, called the familiar staffe. As well for that it may be made vsually and familiarlie to walke with, as for that it performeth the geometrical mensurations of all altituded, longitudes, latitudes, distances and profundities: as many myles of, as the eye may well see and discerne: most speedily, exactly and familiarly without any maner of arithmeticall calculation, easily to be learned and practised, euen by the vnlettered. Newlie compiled, and at this time published for the speciall helpe of shooting in great ordinance, and other millitarie seruices, and may as well be imployed by the ingenious, for measuring of land, and to a number of other good purposes, both geometricall and astronomicall: by Iohn Blagraue ...	Blagrave, John, d. 1611.	1590 (1590)	STC 3118; ESTC S102659	45,938	75

speedely to get the height thereof thereby to make your scaling ladders according Chap. 10. To performe the last chap. Where you dare not come neere the base of the Tower for daunger of shot or let by reason of some deepe mote or ditch Chap. 11. How by this Familiar staffe to performe the last chap. another way more exact for long distances the more safely to keepe you out of daunger of shot of the Fort whiles you are in action Chap. 12. How you shall knowe by this Familiar staffe the depth vnder the iust leuell of your eye of the base of any Tower vnapprochable when the same base is to be seene Chap. 13. To know the length of the scaling ladder to reach ouer the ditch to the toppe of the wall or tower Chap. 14. How at any station eyther by the standerd or running staffe the angle of station or position betweene any two markes or places is to be taken two seuerall wayes Chap. 15. How in manner of the first and playnest meanes mentioned in the last chapter to take the angle of position to get the most exact distance of a castle or fort from you though the same fort be two or three myles off or more whereby you may know how to place your mayne battell as neere as may be yet without danger of shot from the Fort and also in what space you may march to the same when you will Chap. 16. Of the Geometricall ground and familiar proofe therof whereon the whole working by this familiar Staffe dependeth Chap. 17. How to performe the fifteenth chapter with more facility by meanes of the second manner of taking the angle of position mentioned in the 14. chap. Chap. 18. In case that a Castle or Fort were digged out of some rocke or scituate in some valley betweene two hilles admitting but some narrowe comming vnto it and therefore enforcing your stations to be one directly behinde another How yet by this Familiar Staffe you shall attaine the distance of the same from you Chap. 19. How you shall performe the 15. chap. Where the distance of the fort or castle is very farre off the ground being vneuen with hilles dales and rockes hath no one leuell plaine sufficient to make two stations for so great a distance Chap. 20. If in a night you haue secretly gotten with your army neere any Fort and that you would with more speede then in the 15. or 17. chap. is shewed knowe the distance whether you are neere ynough to plant your ordinance for battery Chap. 21. If you shall see two Fortes of the Enemies within viewe and would knowe how farre they are in sunder and whether there may be passage for an Army betweene them without daunger of shot from those Fortes or to get the length and breadth of any Fort a farre off thereby to gather of what receite the same Fort is or to get the width of a Riuer fronting any Fort keeping your selfe a farre off without daunger of shot Chap. 22. If in a Fort or Hauen on the sea coast or abroad on the playnes on the sea bankes you shall see any shippes a farre off sayling towardes you or any Army approching by land howe you shall alwayes be prouided in such speciall places that in a moment almost and with small helpe you shall know how farre they are from you and by that meanes speedily finde when they shall be commen within the randome or point blancke of the shot Chap. 23. If an Army on the land or an Nauy on the sea shall be as farre off as you may ken making towardes your Fort. To knowe by helpe of this Familiar Staffe how fast their gate is and in what time they shall according to that gate come within reach of your shot Chap. 24. If standing on the sea bankes you see your shippe of warre at the sea pursuing another shippe of the enemie to know by helpe of this Familiar Staffe how farre and how much the one getteth of the other in sayling whether he be likely to ouer take the enemy and in what time Chap. 25. Your selfe planted on the toppe of an high rocke clyft or Tower by the sea side To knowe by this Familiar Staffe howe deepe the leuell of the water is vnder you Chap. 26. If a Gunner keepe a Blockehouse or haue a piece or two of ordinance planted on the toppe of some very high clift by the sea side how by this Familiar Staffe he himselfe without any helpe at all shal most easily and speedely in a moment get the distance of any shippe at the sea making towardes him or passing a long and that most exact for so farre as the randome of any great piece will extende Chap. 27. If a man were prisoner with the enemy Howe being in the toppe of a Tower on the leades or out of his prison windowe he might by this Familiar Staffe knowe the deepth to the grounde to see if he were able with any deuise to let himselfe downe without daunger Chap. 28. If a Fort or Tower stand vpon an high hill How by this Familiar staffe to know the ioinct and seuerall heightes both of the hill and tower Chap. 29. If being at the sea you would cast ancor as neere some Fort or Harborrowe as you might be free from reach of their shot How by this Familiar Staffe you shall exactly get the distance thereof or the distance of any other shippe from your shippe beeing both fleeting at once on the wilde sea Chap. 30. How by this Familiar Staffe to carry the leuell of one place to any other necessary for such as shall vndermyne a Fort to knowe alwayes how deepe they are Or for such as would try whether waters may be brought from one place to fortifie another Chap. 31. How by helpe of this Familiar Staffe you shall cary a myne vnder the ground and set barrelles of gunpouder directly vnder any Tower or chiefe place of any Castle or Fort. Chap. 32. How a Captayne may by this Familiar Staffe set in Plat or Mappe any Prouince of the enemies Countrie Heere beginneth the Booke of the readie eadie and pleasant vse of this new Instrument called the FAMILIAR STAFFE CHAPTER I. What moued the Author at this time to publish so much of this Instrument and his vse as he now setteth forth IT was my good hap to be at the mansion place of my most honorable fauorer the right Ho. Sir Frances Knolles knight called Greyes Court in the Countie of Oxenford in Summer last where the right excellent and most noble Lorde Robert Deuorax Earle of Essex his grandson beeing expected that day it pleased his Honor to passe the time or rather as it might be iudged to stirre vp by his example the couragious minded knights and Gentlemen his sonnes naturally apt inough of themselues to patrizate imitate or rather to excéede in all such magnanimous exercises there to contend with the right worshipfull and valorous Gentleman Sir William Knolles