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A39331 The compleat body of the art military ... divided into three books, the first containing the postures of the pike and musket ... the second comprehending twelve exercises ... the third setting forth the drawing up and exercising of regiments ... illustrated with varietie of figures of battail ... / by Richard Elton. Elton, Richard, fl. 1650. 1650 (1650) Wing E653; ESTC R24314 241,863 247

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in the plainest and easiest way p. 146 Doublings belonging to a Regiment p. 150 Four several wheelings with their Reducement ibid. Countermarches not fit to be used in the exercising of Regiments ibid. Severall firings to be performed upon the former figure and how to be managed by the severall Officers p. 152 The manner of drawing up a Regiment consisting of seven companies containing in the four Captains 12 files of Muskettiers and six of Pikes in each of their perticuler companies and in the three Field-officers 16 files a piece of Muskettiers and eight of Pikes which amounts to the number of 864 men p. 153 The manner of drawing up and placing the Officers of a Regiment consisting of eight Companies having in it a Col. a Lieutenant Colonel a Major and five Captains their number of men in each company being equall with the former Regiment they amount unto 972 men p. 158 How to make the figure of a Ring with its use and service p. 160 The manner of drawing up a Regiment consisting of ten Companies having in it seven Captains and three Field-Officers being in each perticular company the former numbers which in all amounts unto 1198 men p. 162 The manner both of the drawing up and the order of the longmarch of Col. Rainsborough his Regiment bringing up the Reer of the foot of the Army under the comand of the Lord Gen. Fairfax at their first marching through the City of London on the seventh of August 1647. p. 164 A third way of drawing up a Regiment of ten companies after the manner used amongst the Swedes p. 166 The way of drawing up a Regiment consisting of 12 companies the nine Captains having 18 Files in each company and the three Field-officers every one of them 24 files whereof there are two thirds of Muskettiers and one of Pikes in each perticuler company amounting in all to 1404 men p. 169 The manner of drawing up a Regiment according to the Swedish Brigade p. 170 The manner of drawing up a Brigade or Tertia being a third part of an Army according to the practise of the Netherlands under the comand of the Prince of Orange p. 171 How to draw up an Army of 12 Regiments of Foot and three of Horse the Foot amounting unto 11664 men and the Horse unto 3000 in all 14664 men p. 174 The severall duties belonging to the Foot in a Regiment as followeth by degrees from a private Souldier unto a Collonel of the same and first of a private Souldier c. p. 176 Of Military Watches p. 187 The ordering of a private company unto a Funerall occasion p. 190 The ordering of a Regiment to a Funerall occasion p. 191 Errata PAge 5 line the last read right side p. 18. l. 41. r. eldest Serjeant p. 19. l. 8. r. otherwise p. ibid. l. 11. r. long March Every p. 22. l. 14. by their leader p. 24. l. 7. r. in the p. ibid. l. 36. r. ensue ibid. l. 38. dele or the half-files p. 32. l. 12. r. not p. ibid. l. 13. r. I p. 33. l. 6. r. outward p. 43. l. 38. r. marking p. ibid. l. 46. of files p. ibid r. or p. 45. l. 34. r. and faced again to the front p. 46. l. 39. r. file p. 49. l. 11. r. Chorean p. ibid. l. 23. r. gain p. 52. l. 9. r. ranks p. ibid. l. 27. r. right for left p. ibid. l. 28. dele in the reer of the Muskettiers r. before the pikes p. 55. l. 40. deles ibid. l. 42. dele s p. 56. l. 42. r. eight p. 56. 7. dele as have p. ibid. r. they p. 74. dele l. 33. p. 104. l. 13. r. they stand p. 139. l. 49. r. forms p. 140. l. 13. put in 3. p. ibid. l. 53. r. from p. 144. l. 13. dele long p. 145. l. 29. for good r. guard p. ibid. l. 34. r. thus p. ibid. l. 13. r. rest p. 146. l. 15 r. 147. p. l. 152. 15. r. giveth p. 153. l. 29. r. bring them p. ibid. l. 29. r. where p. 158. l. 40. r. fifth p. 159. l. 50. dele and p. 171. l. 40. r. Captain p. 174. l. 25. r. the eldest p. 180. l. 24. r. in hutting p. 188. l. 53. r. and if they p. 189. l. 51. r. to In Major Hayne's Ogdocostick correst these few faults line 22. read Genius ibid. line 30. dele a ibid. l. 34. dele a in column 2 l. 8. r. Of the ibid. l. 28 r. for a. In the Dedication the last line dele the liberty Imprimatur Aprill 13 1649. Sir Nathanael Brent The Copie of a Letter written by the Honourable the Militia of the City of London to Sir Nathanael Brent Honoured Sir The bearer hereof wil present you with a TREATISE of THE COMPLEAT BODY OF THE ART MILITARY Which being approved of by diverse of the most experienced Commanders amongst us we desire for the Publike good of the Nation that you will give an alowance of it for the Presse with expedition Sir Your affectionate friends Isaack Penington Sir John Wollastone John Dethick Philip Skippon Robert Manwarring Owen Row William Underwood Matthew Sheppard Robert Tichborne Thomas Noel Mark Hildersley Daniel Taylor Guild-hall London Aprill 11 1649. To the Mirrour of Chivalry And Honour of all Martiall Discipline the most Victorious THOMAS LORD FAIRFAX His Excellency Captain Generall of all Military Forces for the Parliament of ENGLAND All Health and Happiness here and hereafter Most Eminent and Illustrious SIR May it please Your Excellency THe Glory of all Arts is Action the Honour of all Action is Vertue the Crown of all Vertues is Perfection the Excellency whereof according to the perfection of Humanity is so essentiall in your Excellency that you are become at once the Wonder and the Honour of Europe neither can that immortall Fame of Yours be conceal'd from the rest of the habitable World who shall from age to age record and from Antiquity to Infantry relate those matchles Victories and unimitable Atchievments which the Bounty and Blessing of Heaven hath enrich'd your Hand and beautified your Name withall In all whose Honourable and succesfull Undertakings I had an aime at no greater happinesse then to have been the least Part in so noble an Imployment under your Excellency towards the perfecting of the welfare and Happinesse of this Kingdom and Common-wealth had not the Military Affairs of this Honorable Metropolis unavoidably engaged and obliged me to attend the Service of their own Militia And therein my Lo I have spared neither diligence nor Study that might conduce to the great work of Arms then in Embrio now in perfection excepting only ppposition and Envie which the greatest Honours never yet were free from A part of which perfection hath always flowed from the industry of the Officers and practice of the Students of that Warlike University wherein although I have not as a Member thereof with such dexterity as Cadmus sent out well experienc'd Souldiers in a Day yet have I not layn so idle as Lepidus and wish to be warm'd more from the Sun than my own labours of which the effects are now upon the publick Test but more formidably under your Excellencies censure to whose Patronage and Protection I have presumed to devote this eldest Son and First-born of all my forepast Studies Practise and Employment in the gradation of Military Affairs All the following sheets which relate to that Heroick Subject such as they are and in such a dresse as now they have put on submissively and primarily present themselves with all their worth and beauty if any be discernable within them unto Your Excellency as to their tutelar Angell and most Orthodox Warriour that either Pole can boast of In confidence therefore of your Excellencies native Candor towards all Ingenuity and more especially that wherein your own transcendent and unparallel'd Honours are more perspicuously and really delineated than all the vain and empty Glory of the Dull and Phlegmatick Pretenders to Chivalry can be Map'd or Landskip'd by the effeminate hand of Flattery this late abortive in full shape due proportion and if Truth deceive me not in just maturity hath broken from the wombe of my seven yeers endevours to see the Light both of the censorious and judicious World and in that Light it cannot but live if your Evcellencies goodnesse shall vouchsafe to foster it and must not die except your displeasure please to wound it And whether this shall live or die I shall not further aspire at any loftier pitch of Honour than to have Commission to subscribe my self Your Excellencies most humbly devoted Servant Richard Elton
fetch than he The intermediat men being in like manner obsequious And the Followers in Files accurately paceing after their Leaders precise Fierings that SERVE to MASTER Enemies Practice on Single Files and bodyed four sev'rall Numbers each is three times Led The Drawing-up and Exercisings due to Regiments The Forming Brigades too and Armies Placeing their Artillery Duties of all the Private Souldiery and Officers to Collonels The Charge of Military Watches and their large Commission Then to order Companies and Regiments at Funerall Obsequies These all are but the Heads of such things as our Major ELTON in his Volumne has Compleatly Bodied sent to envite like Writs of Chear a Souldiers appetite to a large Banquet where thou maist suffice thy greatest Lust after such Exercise Where all the Flowers of other Gardens Fields and Meddows are and that whereby it yeilds a Perfect Florilegium of the Art unto our view He doth the Rest impart This he hath done But what shall we repay him for it will th' ingenuous Grandees say And troth what ere was given heretofore to Tactick Writers is his due and more Tho I can pay but Love And this alone In writeing of Wars Art th' hast (f) The Emperour LEO King PYRRHUS and Claudius ELIANUS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a great many more than many great men more did write hereof KINGLY done And wrote of what resembles in it's guise the various actings in mens various (g) The l●fe of man is somewhere call'd a Warfare upon earth A Christians is so 1 Tim. 1. 18. Epist 2. cap. 2. ver 4. And in his Good Fight 1 Tim. VI. 12. Ep. 2. cap. 1111. V. 7. he hath our JESUS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both for his Leader Bringer-up as we are encouragingly minded of Hebr. XII 2. His Souldier-like Watch is hinted Ephes VI. 16. Lives And we do finde that in their sev'rall Sphears (h) GOD is nam'd a Man of War Exod. XV. 3. And Numb XXI 14. is mentioned a Book of the Wars of the LORD which is lost but the Divine Ones we have speak much of HIS Militia God (i) Christ we have ●ideing in the Head of the Cavalry in Heaven Rev. XIX 11. c. and making War Christ (k) Saints warring and prevail'd against Dan. VII 21. but overcoming Rev. XII 11. Saints (l) Angels Hosts we read of Gen. XXXI 1. 2. Dan. 1. 11. 35. further compare Revel XII 7. with Job XXV 2. Angels (m) Stars in their Roads are said to have fought against Sisera Judg v. 20. And they are often call'd the HOSTE of Heaven Stars are Warriers And neerer Abram had his (n) Disciplin'd or Exercised habraicè 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gen. XIV 14. So that Military Discipline and Martiall Exercises were used Multitude of Ages before the times of or the Romane or the Grecian Empire And it 's like enough Abram himselfe had been these men 's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But wherefore I pray did he Arme these rather than the rest save because Taught Souldiers prevail by God's Blessing over the rude And more Victories have been got by the Warriers Skill than by Strength of men And it 's of ordinary observation that as the Discipline of any Nation fail'd So their height came down TRAINED men whom after he had Arm'd he Led-forth when he did persue then Camisado those whose takeing Lot rendred them Abrams (o) As they are call'd V. 20. And it 's worth Noteing that this Fighter is forth-with met and blest by Melchizedec who 's also Melchisalem the King of Righteousnesse and King of Peace Pax bello quaeritur c. Fees And David had among (p) 1 Chron. XII 23. c. the heads that came to him at Hebron Men of Skill to Frame Range Draw-forth battells Order them in fights Or to be sure t' expertly keep such rights And (q) 11 Chron. XXVI 11. King Uzziah's fighting-host was Led to War by BANDS as they were Mustered And blessed Israels Hosts the Nations dread who were God's Armies HEE their Armies (r) Captain 1 Chron. XIII 12. Head in ' speciall manner And as HEE saw 't right did fight their Battells and they (ſ) 1 Sam. XXV 28. His did fight these I say were by GOD from Sinai told (t) Numb 11. and X. I and their Leaguers and Stratagems too Josh VI. 2. VIII 2. were Ordered by that Great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Maestro del Campo or Major Generall JEHOVAH The Figure of their Camp which is worthily commended Numb XXIIII 5 6. was not one Oblong or Equilaterall Square caused by the Tertia's of Reubens TETRARCHIE Num. XXIII 10. on the South Side and of Dans on the North's Ranging FILE-VVISE to become so the Right and Left Flanks But was made by Ruben's and Dan's Squadron's moving outwards entire to cleer of the Reer Angles of Judah's Standing-Camp For the Tribes under these Regimentall Standards And every Tribe cal'd here an Host or Army had th' Ensigne of the Family or of their Fathers House and the Levites too had their Stondards did pitch not one after but one by another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers 12 27. and each Battalion was to be a far off the Tabernacle V. 2. and Ephraim's Camp ranging in the Reer directly behinde Judah's in the Front The Levites were circumjected thus On the South the Cohathites On the North the Merarites On the West the Gershonites And on the East the Face and Entry to the Tabernacle MOSES with Aar● and his Sons neer the Tabernacle which was in the very midst of the Camps Their Marching Order was a Deep-H●rse produc'd from the former by moving away 1 the Front which was followed by the Tabernacle and it's Ministers the Gershonites and Merarites 2 the Right-Flank immediately before the Sanctuary the Cohathites bearing it 3 the Reer 4 their Lest-Flank thus becoming dureing the March their Reer-ward Vers 25. When they Log'd again they were Reduc'd by the Van 's making Alt c. what Marching and Encamping forme to hold throughout the Wildernesse as well as there (u) Before the Mount Exod. XIX 2. their Figure was Lunar or a Concave half-moon like that described Apoc. 1111 See V. 12 23 Deut. XX. read 1 Sam. XXX 25. before the Mount. w What Orders Laws of War t' Observe And (x) Numb X. read 2 Sam. 2. 23. on what Sounds of Trumpet make Assemblies Or their Marching-journey take Sure in most Holy Writ we finde this Art's laid-down before us in the Whole and Parts thereof It (y) Jer. XIII 21. Esay 11. 4. hence the Expressions in 1 Chron. v. 18. and Cant. 111. 8. Taught and Learnt and Practiced by God's own People And it may be sed The Postures of the Armes in those times held (z) Take the Texts together I may not dilate and perticularize the Poshires spoke of Ezech. XXXIX 3. Jer. XlVI 3 9. Psal XI 2. Lam. 111.