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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06968	The second part of the soldiers grammar: or a schoole for young soldiers Especially for all such as are called to any place, or office, (how high or low soeuer) either in the citie, or countrey, for the training, and exercising of the trayned band, whether they be foote or horse. Together vvith perfect figures and demonstrations for attaining the knowledge of all manner of imbattailings, and other exercises. By G.M.; Souldiers grammar. Part 2	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1627 (1627)	STC 17392; ESTC S102645	21,943	51

safety in dispight of the enemy The forme of this Battaile is expressed in the next figure following The Battaile to withstand the wedge of Horse Thus you see how this Bataile is interlined with the Shot guarded with the Pikes so that although there be a field of entrance yet it is a straight place of much danger and howsoeuer the enemy may come on bouldly yet he cannot but returne heauily Many other sorts of imbatialing there are though none more necessary as the battaile called Diamond the Battaile Triangular and such like which Noueltie I know is desirous to search into and the proportions I know at the first carry a greate shew of much skill and counning especially to the ignorant but being once waded into with Iudgement there is nothing more facile or easie therefore to draw a Diamond Battaile first drawe your battaile into a square according to the first figure in this booke or for your better remembrance according to this figure following which being but compounded of 144 men may serue to expresse the manner and fashioning of 4000. The Square Battaile whereof to frame a Diamond Heere you behould the square or forme of a Battalia now to reduce this to a Diamond or imperfect square the Captaine shall come to the leader of the right hand file which is the first and principall man of the company and aduancing before him shall wheele the whole company into a direct line with the right point foreward and the left point descending as in this figure following The Diamond Battaile Heere you see that by drawing foorth of the Battaile howsoeuer square at the first yet by alteration of distance it is brought into a perfect Diamond forme and although the Pikes and Shotte keepe their places as in the square yet at your pleasure you may change them and draw the weapons to what part of the Battaile and into what files your selfe pleaseth Now to bring this Diamond or any other Diamond into a perfect Triangular you shall cut off the Diamond Battaile in the Middest through the two midle extreame parts and then will remaine vnto you two Triangulars a greater and a lesse which you may double or encrease as you shall finde occasion so that albeit by this diuision you find how to make this proportion yet perceiueing how you may double and encrease both the files and rankes whose number is euer constant and certaine according to the proportion of the Triangle you may at pleasure without any diuision or seperation of body forme this Triangle out of the files and rankes onely But because you shall not stand amazed at this businesse I will in a few Charracters containe but a fewe men which is the easiest for capasity shew you how to bring a Diamond to a Triangle as in this figure following appeareth A Diamond Battaile brought into a Triangle Thus you see the Diamond is cut into two Triangles which being ledde seuerall wayes may serue as two Bodies and that to exceeding good and honorable purpose for this Diamond or sharpe piercing body is of great force to enter and breake any square body and being but entered in with the point the rest of the body followeth with such order and strength and so encreaseth and maketh the Breach greater and greater that the square body can hardly ioyne together againe but falleth into rout or into a retrait that is full as dishonorable and to this purpose was this Diamond foote battaile first of all inuented There is againe another manner of imbattailing this priuate company of 200 which howsoeuer it be seldome or neuer vsed in fight yet it is of excellent vse in the field both before the framing of the battaile after the battell is framed this manner of imbatailing is when either any of the Captaines officers would deliuer a priuate message to the company which none but themselues should heare or when the Captaine himselfe would either giue secret directions or imparte matter of instruction or matter of reprehension or when any other supreame officer of the field would deliuer to the company either encouragement or caution The manner of this imbattailing is in this wise the Captaine shall first cause both the wings of Shot to stand still hauing drawne them vp into their close order then he shall aduance the first diuision of Pikes vpward till the midle men of the Pikes to the reare be equall with the two first ranks of Shotte and euery man in his close order then shall the Subdiuision turne their faces about and descend downeward till the middle men of the front be equall with the two last rankes of Shot then hauing closed all strongly together and turned euery face vpon the Center The Captaine Lieutenant Ensigne and such other Officers as he will haue partakers of his speech shall come into the square void place of the Battaile and there deliuer what seemeth good to himselfe which finished he shall reduce his Battaile backe into its first forme as for the shape of Imbattelling for Parley it will carry the proportion of this Figure following The forme of Imbattailing for Speech or Parley There be others which Imbattaile for speech or Parly much after this manner aforesaid onely they straighten or make lesse the empty or void place in the midst by making the Shotte first to double their ranks then the first diuision of Pikes to aduance vpward and the subdiuision of Pikes to desscend downeward and afterward to doe in all things as before and then the forme of battaile will bee like this figure following Another forme of Imbattailing for Speech or Parley In this forme of imbattailing though the center be straightned yet the outward verge of the battaile is enlarged so that though som doe heare and vnderstand better yet many shall not heare nor vnderstand at all but must receiue the speech by relation so that I conclude the first forme of Imbattailing for speech or parly is the best easiest and safest yet I stand not vpon mine owne iudgement but submit to the censure of the old and experienced Soldiers Diuers other formes of imbattailing there be for a priuate company of 200 men as the Ring the Halfe-moone the Spurre and the like but because I haue heard them mightelie condemned by the noblest Souldiers of our age and men of high respect and reuerence affirming them rather to leade into rout and disorder then any way to strentghen and better the Battalia therefore I dare not giue rules or prescriptions for them but referre such as are desirous to learne and behold them to any Ignorant and vnskillfull teacher and he shall spend howres and daies onely in these Motions not knowing otherwise how to wast time or make the vulgar people to wonder And thus much touching the imbattailings of a priuate company of 200 men or any other inferior number Chap. 3. The seuerall Imbattailings of a Regiment of one thousand men or more TOuching the imbattailing of a Regiment of