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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06901	Fiue decades of epistles of vvarre. By Francis Markham	Markham, Francis, 1565-1627.	1622 (1622)	STC 17332; ESTC S114265	181,052	212

Ranke may consist of as many men as you please but a File how euer the Spaniards and Italians vse it vncertaine ought neuer to bee aboue ten persons deepe except it be in marching or especiall seruice where aduantage of the ground requireth the contrary for the first man hauing discharged his Peece may in the space that nine other men shal discharge their Peeces one after another be againe in readynes and make his first place good there to discharge his Peece againe besides it is the readiest and best way for the drawing of Groses and great numbers into any forme whatsoeuer Next hee shall teach them the carriage and vse of their armes especially the Pike for the Musquet is in the Office of the Serieant the manage wherof he shall deuide into these Postures first three standing that is Lay downe your Pike Take vp your pike Order your pike Then sixe marching as Aduance your pike Shoulder your pike Leuell your pike Slope your Pike Checke your pike and Traile your pike and lastly seauen charging as Port ouer hand Port vnder hand Charge ouer hand Charge vnder hand Coutch ouer hand Couch vnder hand Charge against the right foote and draw your Sword ouer arme When these are perfect he shall teach them distance of place in Files and Rankes as when he would haue the Files to march Closest then the distance is pouldron to pouldron or shoulder to shoulder if but Close then the distance is a foote and a halfe man from man If at their Order then the distance is three foote betweene man and man and if at open-Open-Order then the distance sixe foote betweene man and man so likewise in Rankes Closest is at the Swords point Close is at three foote Order at sixe foote and Open-Order at twelue foote Now there be some that vary in the tearmes but not in the distance for they wil haue Close Order open-Open-Order and Double Distance and not the word Closest at all but the scruple is small and may be left to euery Commanders discretion After this he shall teach them March and Motions In the first whereof is little art more then in obseruing truly their Rankes and Files and distance in places For Motions they vary diuersly and some are no Marches as when The Souldier turnes but his face on one hand or other or about Some Motions change place yet no more then a remoouing from one ranke to another or from one File to another in which though some remoue yet others stand stil as in doubling of Rankes or doubling of Files and in this Motion is to be obserued that Rankes when they double to the right hand must euer turne on the left to come to their place againe and if they be doubled to the left hand they must turne on the right hand to come to their pltces againe so likewise Files when they are doubled to any hand by the doubling of Rankes to the contrary hand they are brought to their first place againe and so of Rankes in the same nature To conclude there is another Motion to be taught in which all doe moue and yet none doe March and that is the opening or closing either of Ranks or Files is of great vse when one Ranke should passe through another or the whole body of the Battalion make a Countermarch or when the Battell should bee drawne speedily more of one hand or another Lastly the Lieutenant shall teach his Souldier how to know all the sounds or beatings of the Drumme in which he shall make him obserue not only what the Drumme doth beate but also what time and measure hee keepeth and according to that time and measure so to march slower or faster to charge with greater violence or to come of with more speede also he shall teach them to know when by the Drumme to attend the Captaines directions when to repaire to their Colours and when to doe other duties and as thus by the Drumme in seruice so by his voyce and the words of directions in Trayning he shall make them doe whatsoeuer hee pleaseth and therefore the Liuetenant shall haue perfecttly in his memory all the words of directions which are accustomably spoken As Close your Files To the right hand To the left hand and all these shall be done either Closest Close to Order or open Order Then Open your Files to the right hand To the left hand and these to any order And thus to open or close Rankes and to any Order with this obseruation that Rankes when they open ought to turne to the Reare and open downeward and when they close to close vpward then Files and Rrankes close Files and Rankes open and these to any order also then Double your Files To the right hand To the left Aduance your Files to the right hand to the left Aduance by deuision to right hand or left Files ranke by conuersion to the right hand to the left Files ranke 3. 5. 7. c. Shorten your Files to 5. 8. c. Lengthen your Files to 10. 12. 16. c. Files countermarch to the right hand to the left Double your Rankes to the right hand to the left Rankes file by conuersion to the right hand to the left Rankes ranke 5. 7. c. Middle men double your front to the right hand to the left Double to both by deuision Rankes countermarch c. as in Files Then faces to the right hand to the left to both by deuision Faces about Wheele by conuersion to the right hand to the left to both by deuision Charge to the right hand to the left to both by deuision Charge to the Front Charge to the Reare Charge to both by deuision then to reduce any of these words to the same Order or Station in which the Souldier stood before they were spoken the word is As you were And herein is to be obserued that in Charging with Pikes halfe the Rankes are but to Charge and the other halfe to carry them aduanced or ported so neare the heads of the formost as they may doe them no anoyance either in Charging or Retiring and they must also obserue when they doe Charge standing to fall backe with the right foote and marching to step forward with the left Thus I haue shewed in a briefe Epistle the large extent of the Liuetenants Office in which if I be either obscure by reason of the compendiousnes thereof or a little confused in snatching here and there at his duties without setling constantly vpon any one I hope your Lordship will call to minde it is an Epistle the lawes whereof alowes me the libertie of familiar speech not of subtill argument and for mine owne part I had rather leaue many nice wits vnsatisfied then your minde cloyed or tyred The end of the Second Decad. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE WILLIAM LORD EVERS THE ARGVMENT Of the Officers of Caualarie IF I could loue Fortune in any thing my worthie Lord I should surely loue her in

extremities When the Corporals Squadron goes forth to serue vpon the face of the enemy he shall himselfe leade the principall Fyle and by his example both make them come on with all brauery and by his obseruations make them most diligently obserue all the commands of their Superiours he must not allow any to set his foot before him or to outstrip him in courage prouided he exceed not the bounds of discretion neither must any expresse the knowledge of command more then himselfe for he must equally vnderstand both how to obey how to command therwithal it must be mixt with such a tēperance that he must neither ouerdoe nor vnderdoe lest he vtterly vndoe for the one shewes Rashnes and the other Basenesse both which are faults of that extremitie as they neuer haue power to issue forth but still punishment ouertakes them It is likewise a part of his dutie if he be a Shot to obserue that none of his Squadron discharge too soone or amazedly without aduise for then they seldome hit and men are naturally so prone to come to an end of their feare and trouble that the fault of leisure is seldome perceiued besides when they discharge before the enemy be come within the distance of point-blank they not onely lose their labour but giue the enemy leaue to approch without danger and so are either put to rout or else performe some greater inconuenience for this manner of too early discharging discouers an vnnaturall feare and where that is neither can Aduise nor true Leuell be taken but as it is the child of Confusion so confused are all things which either mixe or come neere it To conclude when men discharge their shot with leisure and discretion and that the volley goes wholly and entirely together when leuell is truly taken and the Obiect not supposed but constantly perceiued then doth ten Shot more good then an hundred and the example and wounds which proceed from so strong a Resolution more shakes the hearts of the enemy then all the fires affrights or noises that Gunns Arts or mens voices can vtter and that this may be performed with better perfection the Corporall shall teach his Squadron how to giue their peeces their full lading and how to ramme in their Bullets to the best aduantage of the blow so that all things concurring in a decent and artificiall forme together the Discipline may be so absolute that no newe Curiositie or Inuention can start vp to amend it Infinite much might a knowing Experience write of this mans Place and Office and of the variation of opinions touching the same but my desire is to draw as neere as I can to our best moderne Practise and to that discipline which is most frequent in our Nation that whosoeuer shall come to apparell his mind in these Instructions may not walk forth py-bald and Antiquely suited but in such an habit as all his Countrey-men may know him allow him and indeed imitate him all other I account but gaudie Boskage or idle Crotesco worke on which whensoeuer a man fixes his eye though he finde Art and Proportion in the knots trayles and deuices yet if hee gaze on the Faces and Figures he shall find them gastly vgly halfe maimed and out of all comely proportion TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THOMAS LORD VVENTVVORTH of Nettlesteed THE ARGVMENT The Office of a Serieant I Could wish my good Lord that this Epistle which I dedicate to the name and honor of your noble House had in it as great a hope of eternity as your vertues for then I know not so much as enuy would rise vp against it but it would last beyond all Times find no end or period either in Age Rust or the worlds Consumption but all humaine writings are mortall mine I know is borne weake and sickly therefore since it cannot liue as it would yet shall it last as longe as it can and euen to the last gaspe affirme that your owne worth hath cald me and the honor of your house bound me to the dedication of this seruice To discribe then the Office of an ordinary Serieant of a Band it is to be allowed that he is one of the most needfull and ought to be one of the most heedfull instruments in the whole Armie and indeed his name Importeth no lesse which I take to be Seruians He hath in the body of the company no Raunge at all but is extrauagant and going vp and downe to ouersee all Raunges his command how euer it be generally disposed would in perticular consist of two Squadrons which are fifty men or more at discretion and may propperly bee called a Serieancie which though it be a new tearme yet it is not vnfit They ought for their election and qualities of minde to be valiant expert vigilant and diligent For his armes howsoeuer some allow him a Corslet the apurtenances yet with vs except in assaults a Scalados he hath only a good Sword and a faire Halbert which is a short and ready weapon apt for him to mannage and handle in any place of straitenes or other inconuenience with it he keepeth all the Band in order and maketh them in Marching Standing and all motions to keepe their Rankes and Files in an euen comely and true proportion and if any be so incorrigible or absurd that admonition will not reclaime him then with that weapon hee may enforce him and by turning the blunt end towards him shew hee might strike yet forbeares for but in fatall cases should a Souldier bee stricken as in the face of the enemie when one mans disorder might hazard the whole Battaile in that case the Seriant may kill him for one may put in Rout tenne ten an hundred and an hundred ten thousand he is when the the Drumms beate the Colours flie the Souldiers are gathered together to see euery man raunged in his true place according to the nature of his weapon drawing vp the Files and placing them in square or other proportion according to the direction of his Captaine If any loose Files of shot goe forth to serue the Serieant is to be their leader except by an especiall commandment a superior Officer be appointed He is the Herauld or Pursuiuant belonging to the Captaine for he carrieth all his messages directions and commandments to the company and assoone as the word is giuen sees it effected and performed he must carry of and on in all Skirmishes according to directions men that are spent or hurt and hee bringeth in new supplies to releiue them He must be Hic et vbique ready vpon any matter of consequence to goe euen to the Generall and to declare vnto him all proceedings and hee ought to haue that vnderstanding to giue a good account vpon demaund of perticultars he is to fetch the watchword from the Serieant Maior or other supreame Officer and to carry it to the Captaine he is also to deliuer it to the Corporalls and that with