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Military and maritine [sic] discipline in three books.
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Venn, Thomas. Military observations.
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1672
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Wing V192; ESTC R25827
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Military Maritine DISCIPLINE IN THREE BOOKS BOOK I. Military Observations or Tacticks put into PRACTICE for the Exercise of HORSE and FOOT the Original of ENSIGNES the Postures of their Colours With Sir Francis Veres Directions for Officers And a small Treatise of INVASION By Captain Thomas Venn BOOK II. An exact Method of MILITARY ARCHITECTURE the Art of FORTIFYING TOWNS with the wayes of Defending and Offending the same Rendred into English by John Lacey out of the Works of the late Learned Mathematician Andrew Tacquet Together with Corrections made by the Count de Pag'an and St Sam. Morâ—land's Methods of Delineating all manner of FORTIFICATIONS BOOK III. The COMPLEAT GUNNER in three Parts Shewing the Art of Founding of GREAT ORDNANCE making Gun-powder the taking of Heights and Distances either with or without Instruments with the nature of Fire-works Translated out of Casimir Diego Vssano and Hexam c. To which is added the DOCTRINE of PROJECTS applied to Gunnery by Galilaeus and Torricellio And Observations out of Mersennus and other Authors LONDON Printed by E. Tyler and R. Holt for Rob. Pawlet at the Bible in Chancery Lane Tho. Passinger at the three Bibles on London Bridge and Benj. Hurlock over against Saint Magnus Church 1672. Military Observations OR THE TACTICKS PUT INTO PRACTICE Collected and Composed for the EXERCISE BOTH OF Horse and Foot To our present mode of Discipline WITH The Original of ENSIGNES their duties and Postures of their COLOURS Hereunto is added Sr. FRANCIS VEARES notes of Direction for Officers By Capt. Thomas Venn LONDON Printed by E. Tyler and R. Holt for Robert Paulet at the Bible in Chancery Lane Tho. Passinger at the three Bibles on London Bridge and Benjamin Hurlock over against Saint Magnus Church 1672. TO THE Right Noble JOHN DUKE OF SOMERSET MARQUES and EARLE OF HARTFORD VICOUNT BEAUCHAMP AND Lord Seymour May it please your Grace IN vacant hours my Genius guiding me to some thoughts upon Art Military and having made some Collections of part thereof out of the chiefest Authors both Ancient and Modern but finding in them many Motions to be of little use and may well be spared according to our present Mode of Discipline which is to Exercise and fight our Horse but three in File and the Foot six I have according to the several Commands for the Exercise thereof drawn the platforms and directions for the performance of the same and now they want nothing but your Graces protection for which being your Servant and Tenant I have presumed to implore knowing that there is in your Right Noble self Wisdome and Potency enough to allow hereof for the use of the young Souldrie of this Kingdom Sir next to my Sacred KING be assured of my dutiful affections and Command the Life of him who is in all humlity Your Graces most obliged Servant Tho. Venn TO All such of the Deputy Lieutenants For the County of SOMERSET That have faithfully managed his MAJESTIES affairs in the well ordering of the Militia of the said County Right worshipful and truly Honoured I Am to crave your pardons for my boldness that being Comissionated to obey your Commands have presumed thus far without them but your Honours love to this Art and my own experience of you is the cause thereof and as the Country can testifie the same so it is my endeavour if it were possible the whole world should know it But your splendid carriages in the activeness of your proceedings in the Militia do shine most glorious in your effectual managements for your diligence hath drawn obedience your wisdom reverence your vertuous education makes a willingness in all to serve you and a readiness in your Honours in all your actions to equallize the same These Collectives are but shaddowes your Noble minds are adorned withall being but little more than the Accidence of Military Discipline yet useful in this Warlike age My Lord Duke's Patronizing hereof I hope may not be denied by you to suffer these to march and quarter within the precincts of your Honours Commands assuring that in quality I am Your Honours Servant to be Commanded Tho. Venn A List of the names of those worthy Gentlemen as are concerned in the affairs of the County of Somerset as Deputy Lieutenants and Colonels both of Horse and Foot The Lord Fitzharding Colonel of Horse Lord Pawlett Colonel of Crewkerne Regiment 1. Sir William Portman Sir John Syddenham Sir William Wyndham Sir Thomas Bridges Sir Hugh Smith Sir George Horner Sir Edmond Windham Knight Marshall Sir John Coventrey Colonel of Taunton Regiment 2. Edward Phillips Esq Ralph Stawell Esq Colonel of Bridgwater Regiment 3. Peregrine Palmer Esq Henry Rogers Esq George Speake Esq Francis Windham Esq Colonel of Wells Regiment 4. Samuel Gorges Esq Robert Hunt Esq Thomas Peggot Esq Colonel of Bath Regiment 5. TO THE Right worshipful and truly honoured Sir COPLESTONE BAMPFIELD Knight And one of the Knights of PARLAMENT For the County of DEVON c. SIR ALthough I am a stranger to you yet the Gallantry of your Vertuous inclinations together with the nearness of affections to my never to be forgotten Cammander Sir Hugh Wyndham Knight late deceased forceth me to present you with a Lively Portraicture of his worth As to his Military concerns he made his Souldiers Commanders of the chiefest principles of War that is to be Faithful Obedient Resolute to fight loving to their Country and loyal to their Soveraign So likwise in the private Exercises of his Troops those under his Command were as Ornaments in peace and a guard in War This only was not the heighth of his ambition for he made it a principle to himself in Warlike combates not to have many names but many hands And for his deportments I am sure none was more beloved in his Country nor could command more able and stouter Souldiers for his Majesties service than himself And I hope the Heavens have most largely rewarded him for his blood spilt in his late Majesties service of ever blessed memory Sir I humbly beg I might by your favour indicate to the world my Obligements to his deceased person which was accepted of by him when he was alive as an Epistle to my Observations for the Military Exercise of Horse and Foot And what I have truely said of him your own worth falls not short in your Paternal affections to your Country which hath of late appeared notwithstanding great opposition in their clear affections to you again especially in that unparallel'd Election of you for Knight of the Shire And give me leave to declare to the World your Countries further Esteems of you to be one of his Majesties chiefest Cittadels or fort Royall for their safety Not that I declare this to lessen any of the beames of those other worthy Heroes that shall joyn with you when ever his Majesty shall Command Sir I crave your Pardon for my boldness and conclude with my desired wishes for your Worships tranquillity the