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A67733 The yong [sic] souldier Raynsford, John. 1642 (1642) Wing Y132; ESTC R6292 10,256 17

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your Musquet Return your Match Cleer your Pan. Prime Shut your Pan. Cast off Take up your Rest Blow Cast about Trail your Rest Open your Charger Charge with Powder and Bullet Take out your Scowrer Shorten your Scowrer Ram down your Bullet and powder Pull out your Scowrer Shorten your Scowrer to a handfull Return your Scowrer Recover your Musquet Peize your Musquet and Recover your Rest Shoulder your Musquet and with your Musquet carry your Rest Slip your Musquet Peize your Musquet Joyn your Rest to your Musquet Take out your Match Blow your Match Cock your Match Try your Match Guard your Pan. Blow Open your Pan. Present Give Fire Take up your Rest and Musquet and joyn them Return your Match Cleer your Pan. Prime your Pan. Shut your Pan. Cast off Blow Cast about Trail your Rest Open your Charger Charge with Powder and Bullet Take out your Scowrer Shorten your Scowrer Ram down your Bullet and Powder Pull out your Scowrer Shorten your Scowrer to a handfull Return your Scowrer Recover your Musquet Peize your Musquet and Recover your Rest Shoulder your Musquet and with your Musquet carry your Rest Slope your Musquet March In Exercising use these three Terms of Direction Make Ready Present Give Fire Your Musquetiers must observe in all their Motions to turn to the Right hand And that they carry the mouth of their Pieces high when they are shoulder'd when they are Priming when they Cast about and also when they hold their Pans guarded and come up to Give Fire In Advancing towards an Enemie when they do not skirmish Loose and Disbanded they must * The Right and Left Wing in all occasions of Giving Fire by Ranks are to have a principall Respect to the Pikes to make their Front equall with them and to take their distances from them accordingly as when they stood first in Battell And this may be the more certainly done if the Ranks of the Right Wing take their Distances from the Pikes by observing the Left hand man as the Ranks of the Left Wing do by observing the Right hand man Give Fire by Ranks after this manner following TWo Ranks must alwayes make ready together and with a * Who is to March Even with the Left hand man of the first Rank Sergeant or if the Body be greater with some better qualified Officer Advance ten Paces forwards before the Body viz. The first Rank is to Advance eight Paces the second Rank six Paces coming on with their Right Legs first and there Stand When the Officer bids them Present the first of the two Ranks advanceth two full Paces moving with the Right Leg first and Layes on The second Rank following them with two Paces in like manner keeping their Musquets close to their Rests their Pans guarded and their first Rank having Given Fire and falling off to the Rear The second being bid to Present Advanceth in like manner two full Paces Presents Gives Fire and falls off as the former When the two first Ranks Advance forward as aforesaid the two next Ranks the whole Wing moving after them March up into their places and keeping Even with the two first Ranks of the Pikes unshoulder and make ready And as soon as the two former Ranks are fallen away they are to Advance and to do in all points as aforesaid And so all the other Ranks successively two after two thorow both the Wings A manner there is to Give Fire retiring from an Enemy which is performed after this sort THe whole Body being turned from the Enemy to the Right or Left hand about the Rank then in the Rear keeping still with the Body maketh ready and being ready the whole Rank turn about to the Right hand and stepping forward each with the Left leg Present and Give Fire marching presently away a good round pace to the Front and there placing themselves in Rank before the Front fall even in their march with the first Rank of the Pikes As soon as that Rank in the Rear as aforesaid turns to Give Fire the Rank next it makes ready and doth as the former and so the rest We Give Fire by Flanks thus THe Uttermost File next the Enemy must be commanded to make Ready keeping still along with the Body till such time as they be ready and then they return to the Right or Left hand according to the sight of their Enemy either upon their Right or Left Flank and Give Fire all together when they have discharged they stir not but keep their ground and Charge their Pieces again in the same place they stand Now as soon as the aforesaid File doth turn to Give Fire the uttermost next it makes ready alwayes keeping along with the Body till the bringer up be past a little beyond the Leader of that File that Gave Fire last and then the whole File must Turn and Give Fire and do in all points as the first did and so all the rest one after the other A Sergeant or if the Body be Great some other better qualified Officer must stand at the head of the first File and as soon as the second File hath Given Fire and hath Charged he is to lead forward the first File up to the second File and so to the rest one after another till he hath gathered up again the whole Wing and then he is to joyn them again in Equall Fronts with the Pikes Last of all the Body or whole Wing of Musquetiers make ready all together upon their Rests and the first Rank falling back two steps Gives Fire and speedily as it may yet orderly falls away All the Ranks doing the same successively one after another And we do especially Require all Captains of Foot in Exercising their Companies to accustome their Musquetiers to Give Fire according to all these severall manners before prescribed Orders to be observed in the Marching of one single Company or of many joyned together in one Body WHen a Regiment is drawn into Battell the Officers shall be thus placed It being first understood that the Coronell Lieutenant Coronell and Sergeant Major are to be on Horseback only they are to alight when they Marrh by the Generall The Coronell is to March in the Front of the middle of the Pikes The Lieutenant Coronell in the Reare of the Pikes The Sergeant Major a little behind the Coronell on his left hand from him to receive Orders and to Move accordingly as the occasion is offered The First Captain marcheth in the Head of the Pikes The Second Captain in the Reare of the Pikes The Third Captain in the Front of the Right Wing of Musquetiers The Fourth Captain in the Rear of the Left Wing of Musquetiers The Fifth Captain in the Front of the Left Wing of Musquetiers The Sixt Captain in the Reare of the Right Wing of Musquetiers The Seventh Captain in the Front of the second Division of Pikes The Eight Captain in the Rear of the second Division of Pikes