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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42527	A treatise of the arms and engines of vvar of fire-works, ensigns, and military instruments, both ancient and modern; with the manner they are at present used, as well in French armies, as amongst other nations. Inriched with many figures. Written originally in French by Lewis de Gaya, author of the treatise called The art of war. Translated for publick advantage.	Gaya, Louis de.	1678 (1678)	Wing G402A; ESTC R217414	40,394	159

of Towers and the Houses of Gentlemen of Quality were beautified The Faillion is a kind of Standard made use of in the Army for assembling the Baggage and every Regiment ought to have one of its Colour which conducts the Baggage to the Faillion General S. P. Q. R. The Ensigne of the Roman Horse The Ensigne of the Manipule The Ensigne of the Roman Legion CHAP. II. Of the Roman Ensigns THE Romans had one kind of Ensigns for foot and another for Horse Every Legion had its Ensign General which was the Roman Eagle as we have a Collonels Colours in every Regiment of foot which is always of White Taffeta besides that the Manipules or Companies had their particular Ensigns which were silvered Pikes at whose end was a little piece of Wood laid a thwart in form of a Cross with little Globes fastened down along to the Pikes on which was the Names of the Emperours as Suetonius reports Artabanus transgressus Euphratem aquilas Romana Caesarumque imagines adoravitsigna The Armies were reckoned by Eagles as Hirtius says Erat Pompeii acies tredecem aquilis constituta To intimate that the Army of Pompey was composed of thirteen Legions We have retained the same way of expressing the number of the Horse which we have in our Armies for instance we say The King hath detached or sent into the Field two hundred Cornets to signifie two hundred Troops The Ensigns of the Cavalry were of a shape different from those of the Infantry The Romans named them Vexilla which to speak properly were little square Sails almost of the bigness of our Standards which were carried hanging at a Pike like to the Banners of our Churches These Sails were for most part of a Purple Stuff embroidered whereon were set in Golden Letters the Names of their Emperours or of their Commanders Aurea clarum not a nomen ducum vexillis praescriptum feriunt The same is in use amongst our Horse whereof most part of the Masters de Camp cause their Arms or Devises to be put upon the Standards of the Troops of their Regiments The Persians had Eagles for Ensigns and the Ancient Germans carried the Figures of Wild Beasts CHAP. III. Of Trumpets Drums and other Instruments of War THE Instruments of Military Symphony are not onely proper to give the Souldiers the signal of what they are to do but likewise to animate them to Fight after the manner of the Lacedemonians The Cavalry make use of Trumpets and Kettle Drums The Trumpet is an Instrument of Brass doubly crooked which Heginus says was invented by Thireime Son of Hercules This definition Vegetius gives of it Buccina quae in semetipso aereo circulo reflectitur Ovid in this manner describes it to us Cava buccina sumitur illi Tortilis in latium quae turbine cresct ab imo There is no Troop of our Gend'arms nor Light Horse which has not at least one Trumpet to sound to Boots and Saddle to the Standard to Horse the Charge the Challenge and the Retreat Kettle-Drums are two Brazen Vessels round at the bottom and covered above with Goat-Skin which is made to sound by beating on it with Sticks Kettle-Drums were more in use among the Germans and Spaniards than among the French who heretofore never carried any but when they won them from their Enemies That Ancient formality is now out of date and the King bestows them on whom he thinks fit especially on the Troops of his Houshold Drums Fifes Bagpipes and Hautbois are for Foot Musketeers Dragoons Fusiliers and Horse-grandaiers Drums are made of a Chesnut Wood hollow and covered at both ends with Skins of Parchment which are braced with Cords and with Snares underneath These Instruments serve to beat the Reveilly the General the Call the March the Charge the Parley the Retreat the Banks or Proclamations and all the Commands The Invention of them is not late as may be seen in the following Chapter CHAP. IV. Of the Instruments of War used by the Romans THE Instruments of the Roman Militia whereof they made use to signifie all the Orders to the Souldiers were Trumpets Horns Cornets and Hautbois as well for Horse as Foot and the Legions Cohortes and Manipules had each their several Instruments Cohortium turmarum legionum tubicines simul omnes canere jubet says Salust Though Drums and Kettle-Drums were not in use among the Romans yet other Nations and especially the Indians used them Indi tympana suo more pulsantes Curtius lib. 8. and Suidas Tubis Indi non utuntur sed pro iis sunt flagella tympana horribilem quendam bombum emittentia The Parthians made use of them also but in all appearance according to the Description that we have of them in Suidas and Plutarch the Instruments of these People were rather Kettle-Drums than Drums because they were made of Plam-tree Wood hollow and filled with little Brazen Bells the mouth whereof was covered with a Bulls-hide Isidorus defines the word tympanum in these terms Tympanum est pellis vel corium ligno ex una parte extensum And that is the very shape and figure of our Kettle-Drums He describes also another Instrument which he calls Symphony which can be nothing else but our Drums Symphonia says he vulgo appellatur lignum cavum ex utraque parte pelle extensa quam virgulis hinc inde musici feriunt That Instrument resembles the little Tabers or Drums which the Turks carry before them and which they beat on both sides with Sticks However it be there is no doubt but that the Invention of Drums is as Ancient as that of Trumpets I build not onely on the Authority of prophane History but on the Testimony of the Royal Prophet who says Let them praise his Name with the Flute let them sing praises to him with the Timbrel and Harp Psal 149. Praise him Timbrel and Flute c. Psal 150. A particular Chapter of the Arms which are at present in use as well among the French as other Nations SInce Gun-powder hath been invented there is no People in Europe but makes use of Fire-Arms to which they have given several names according to their different shapes as Muskets Arquebusses with Match-Lock Arquebusses with Wheel-Lock Carabines Choques Pistols with Wheel-Locks Holster or Pocket Pistols Musketons and Fusils or Fire-locks as the Ancients changed the names of their Shields Pikes Swords and Darts according to the divers alterations that happened either in the form or matter for instance They called A●lides a kind of Ancient Dart which they carried tied to the Wrist with a long Strap or Thong that thereby they might more easily draw it back when they wounded any therewith and they called Gevum a Dart that was intirely of Iron Nevertheless these Arms were still Darts as Muskets Musketons Carabins Choques and Fusils or Fire-locks are all of them kinds of Arquebusse of different lengths of which some fire with a Match others with a Flint