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A08347	The gunner shevving the vvhole practise of artillerie: vvith all the appurtenances therevnto belonging. Together with the making of extra-ordinary artificiall fireworkes, as well for pleasure and triumphes, as for warre and seruice. VVritten by Robert Norton, one of his Maiesties gunners and enginiers.	Norton, Robert, d. 1635.; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, engraver.	1628 (1628)	STC 18673; ESTC S115254	149,353	214

The Gunner may keepe that thicknesse or dispart in his hands and take his leuell by the mettall as the fashion is vntill thereby he discerne the marke and them both to bee in one right visuall line And then setting on the dispart vpon the muzzle ring duly and bringing downe the mouth of the peece vntill the said marke and the top of the dispart and the highest of the mettall at the Breech become all three in one right visuall line then take off the said dispart and note what marke will then bee in one right line with the midst or highest of the mettall at the breech muzzle which will be much vnder the first marke and it will so serue euer after to make a shott to an assured good effect at the same marke and with the same peece from the same plat-forme The like is to be done in shooting at a marke eleuated to any degree about the leuell As also for such marks as are beyond the distance of the right line or right range by allowing an addition of a Minute Degree or Poynt of eleuation for aduantage more or lesse as need shall be vntill the Shot hit right and as reason will direct As for example a Saker is to shoote at a marke eleuated vnto 15 degrees it being distant from the plat-forme 1325 Geometricall paces 5 feete to the pace But being mounted to the second poynt or 15 degrees she will shoote but 1062 paces in her dead range and in her best Randon she will conuay a shott but 600 paces in a right line wherefore it being almost 300 paces short of the dead range for 15 degrees and aboue 700 paces short of her right range vpon her best Randon I must by my Gunners Scale or by the Diagram of Randons in the 27 precedent Chapter by the perpendicular raised from the Base at 1325 paces finde what randon crosseth the aspect of the second point which will be thereby found to be the fifth points Randon If then I shall mount the said Saker vnto the fifth poynt so then I may expect her said Randon to strike or come neere to that marke that shall be eleuated to the aspect of the second poynt or 15 degrees at the distance of 1325 paces and so after 2 or 3 shotts at that aduantage attaine my desire This is the ordinary manner of shooting vpon aduantage of any Mounture whatsoeuer alwayes obseruing the meanes how to draw as neere the Enemie as can be In generall you may obserue that in taking ayme by the highest of the mettall without consideration of the disparture if the visuall line thereof aspect the marke the shott will bee alwayes too high within the right range contrary to the Gunners diseigne which should be to ruinate the Foote of the defence in Batteries the sooner to ouerthrow the wall also to facillate the entery of the Breach but singly to shoote at a Troope of Horse or Squadron of Foote and especially in grauelly or stony places it were not amisse purposely to shoote short to light vpon the stones to beate them so vp as that the raysing of the grauel and stones may do the more execution entering trauerse-wise amongst the Enemie But in a plaine or leuell Champion and amongst Battalions of men the Peece should be so bended and directed as that her shot may passe by the midst or thickest of them guirdle height and so it may cut off a hundred or whole Ranke or File of Men at once and breake their Orders and Rankes whereby those that fall on their Faces will hardly elcape but shooting ouer profiteth nothing at all but is meerely lost To amend a wide shot if it went too much towards the right hand then remoue the dispart or take the large of your sight line somewhat more towards the left hand at the muzzle ring keeping the former height or letting the Dispart stand as before and take your marke as before onely remooue your eye a little more towards the right hand vpon the Base ring And so likewise doe contrariwise if the fault of the short aforesaid went too much towards the left hand and so you shall assuredly amend the former shooting vnlesse some of these ouer-ruling causes or accidents cause the contrary namely her Soule or Concaue bore not being strairt and right or lying a wry in the body of the mettall for then the fault is not in the Gunner but in the Gunne which hee must with iudgement and good discretion rectifie as hath bene already shewed in the 44. Chapter hereof She will shoot wide also if the Trunions lye not directly the one against the other as also if the platforme lye awry one side higher then the other or if the Gunner take not his ayme so that the visuall line that passeth from his eye to the marke or if one wheele be higher then the other or if one wheele be stiffe and the other iocond or be squatted with any rub in the reuerse of the Peece or run vpon soft and the other vpon hard ground or if the Cariage-maker haue made the Cariage leane or hang more vpon one then the other side If the Naue be too wide that the Peece shake therby in her discharge and reuerse or if the tayle of the Cariage rest harder on the plat-forme vpon one side more then on the other when the shott is too lowe for the Peece and at the deliuery toucheth vpō one side And lastly the vehemency of the wind being sidewise ouer-rules it to the contrary-side-ward c. But if the Shot fall to short or too farre that happeneth by the force or feeblenesse of the Powder or vnskilfulnesse of the Gunner not directing his peece as he ought or in ignorance or by mistaking the distance to the marke he would shoote at CHAP. XLIIII How the Gunner may be assured to make a good Shott SOmetimes the occasions offer to require that the Peece be curiously directed and precisely bended to dismount a Peece of the Enemies that galleth shrewdly or at a single mark or at the Loope Tronier Cassamat Horseman Boat or other secret place assigned that else would impeach the appointed seruice and deseigne For which the Gunner ought to haue an entire and perfect knowledge of the condition and quality of his Peece by experience made by former practises in her otherwise it wil be vncertaine and vnlikely that he at the first shot out of a Peece wherein they neuer practized to make an assured good shott and then in loading her to haue great care so to put home the Powder Shott and Wadd as that the powder may fire at once that the Peece reuerse not vnrulily it being a certaine thing that the more slowe the powder is in firing within the Peece the greater will her reuerse be and the shott also of the lesse force in execution And likewise the reasonable putting home of the Shott and Wadds neither too hard nor too easie but that the Ball may