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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13315	The A, B, C, of armes, or, An introduction directorie whereby the order of militarie exercises may easily bee vnderstood, and readily practised, where, when, and howsoeuer occasion is offered / by I.T. ...	I. T.	1616 (1616)	STC 23623; ESTC S1392	11,660	46

perfectly instructed with the true knowledge of Files and Rankes Fronts and Flankes Leaders and Followers Middle-men and Bringers vp and not be ignorant of the chiefe principles of Action that is to say of Posture Distance and orderly Motion the knowledge of which warlike motions may truly be said to be the art of Warre By Posture is vnderstood the manageing of Martiall weapons either Standing Marching Chargeing or Dischargeing the easiest and readiest way to offend or defend Si doctrina cessat armorum nihil Paganus distat a milite Posture consisteth of Standing Marching Chargeing Postures of the Pike In Standing are three In Marching are sixe In Chargeing are three Of the Musket in Standing one Marching one Chargeing eighteene Dischargeing twelue All which in sight are reduced to three Postures of the Pike standing Lay downe your Pike Take vp your Pike Order your Pike Thereof marching Aduance your Pike Shoulder your Pike Leuell your Pike Slope your Pike Cheeke your Pike Trayle your Pike Posture thereof chargeing Port your Pike Charge your Pike Couch at the foot your Pike Of all foot weapons this is esteemed the most honourable for that it can bee accounted no disparagement to a Commander to traile his Pike vnder his fellow-Captaynes Colours Posture of the Musket standing Rest your Musket Your Musket shouldred Posture thereof marching Cleere your Pan Prime your Pan Close your Pan Cast off the loose poulder Blow your Pan Cast about and traile your Rest Open your charges Charge with poulder Posture thereof chargeing Draw out your skowring sticke Shorten your sticke Ram in your poulder Draw out your sticke Charge with buller Ram in your bullet Draw out your sticke Shorten your stick and put it vp Bring your musket forward with the left hand Hold it vp with the right and recouer your Rest Of which postures it is but idle to giue aduertisement that the foure after the chargeing with poulder viz. to charge with bullet is rather to bee conceited how then practised at these times where to doe it Postures of the Musket discharging Carry your Rest in the left hand Rest your Musket Take your match in the right hand Hold the match blow it Cocke it Try it Guard the Pan and blow it Open the Pan Present the Musket Giue fire Dismount it Vncocke the match hold it twixt your fingers In fight onely Make readie Present Giue fire It is generally to be obserued that when you charge with your Pike or discharge your Musket you place your left leg forward but when you martch you begin with the right The next thing that is to bee obserued Ordo est parium dispariumque rerum distributio is distince of order By distance is meant a certain space betweene File and File Ranke and Ranke in such order to that measure as pleaseth the Commander to nominate The which if Souldiers obserue not then is that Companie or Troope so exercised out of order and discipline more like men in rout disorcer then to a perfect Battalia Therefore this distance ought to bee such a competent space as is meet and conuenient for motion For the station of Souldiers is not alwayes steadie and certaine but that they all interchange mutually one with another it consists of order in Files and Rankes of which distances the Romanes onely obserued these three 1. Ordinatus miles 2. Densatus ordo 3. Constipatus ordo But at this day wee generally practise foure Open order Order Close order Closest order Open order sixe foote distant from his side-man and reare-man Order distant three foote Close order a foote and a halfe Closest powldron to powldron with his side-men and to the Swords point of the proceeding Ranke There is to be kept the like distance of Files as of Rankes After the knowledge of your distance you must with diligent care marke the motions of Files Rankes seuerall of both conioyned which motion is the actual operation of that bodie which is moueable whereof in this exercise long since and at this time there are foure remarkeable circumstances 1. Ante. 2. Retro 3. Dextrorsum 4. Sinistrorsum Either by mouing forwards as charging to the Front back-wards by Retrait side-waies by Closing Opening or Doubling of Files to the right or left hand by Wheeling or Conuersing to either hand the which is performed as occasion presents according to the will direction of the Cōmander obseruing it in Order true Pace true Distance and perfect Posture For any other kinde of motion in a Battalia or grosse body breeds both disorder and confusion Vbinullus est ord● certus est horror where on the other side Order is the Beautie of nature Ornament of arte and Harmony of the World Motion is in forme of Files and Rankes conioyned Motion of Files in proportion apart are fiue Of Rankes apart si●e Of both conioyned two Motion in forme of Files seuerall may be comprehended in foure howsoeuer some by shortning lengthning and such like phrases of inuention doe make nine Motion in forme of Rankes seuerall are fiue of both Rankes and Files conioyned are eight A whole companie as one body being perfect by instruction and vse herein and hereof as occasion shall require may bee turned into diuers different formes for the more offence of the assayling Enemie and defence of themselues and abettors Motion in different distances of Files close Close your files to the left hand Close your files Close your files to the right hand Motion in distances of files open Open to the right hand Open to the left hand Motion in distances of Rankes close Close Your Rankes from the Front to the Reare Close From the Reare to the Front Motion in distances of Rankes open Open Your Rankes From the Reare forward Open Your Rankes From the Front Reareward Motion in distances of ranks files conioyned Close Open. Motion in forme of Files Double your Files to the right hand Double your Files to the left hand Aduance your Files to the Left hand Right hand By diuision to the Right hand Left hand Files ranke by conuersion to the Right hand Left hand Files countermarch to the Right hand Left hand After the manner of the Macedonians Lacedaemonians Persians These seuerall manners of counter-marching I finde often cited by seuerall Authors by this terme Euolutio Macedonica Laconica Dorica but confesse my ignorance know not the difference Ideo quaere Motion in forme of Ranks double to the right hand double to the left hand File by conuersion vt supra Ranke 7. 5. 9. c. Middlemen double your Front to the right hand left hand To both by diuision Counter-march from the right to the left hand and by conuersion vt supra Motion in forme of cōioyned Files and Rankes Faces to the Right hand Left hand To both by Diuision Faces to the Reare Wheele by Conuersion Charge to the Right hand Left hand To both by Diuision Charge to the Front Reare To both by Diuision

A perfect File is a sequence of men standing one behinde another backe to belly and subsisting commonly of ten in depth according to the moderne vse of the Warres of the Netherlands it was by the Romans termed Series Ordinatio Decurio it consisteth of Leaders Followers wherein the Decurio Tergi ductor amongst the Latines but in our drilling the Leader Middle-men and Bringer vp are principally to be regarded The Middle-man is either the fifth or sixth man vncertaine which before the motion bee commanded vt postea A perfect Ranke is a stand or row of men placed powldron to powldron their faces being directed al one way which by the Romanes was stiled Ordo But when it is the first ranke composed of Leaders of many Files it was by them termed Frōs Acies but now vsually the Front Van or Voward A Battalio is the connexion of many Files together whereof the first Ranke is termed the Front the right side the right hand Flanke the left side the left hand Flanke the last ranke in depth the Reare the fifth and sixth Rankes Middle-men and all the remainder Side-men so that where the faces are directed one way stands the Front the Reare is where the backs are turned the two outmost Files the right and left Flankes In a Battalio likewise you must obserue that from the Leader to the Bringer vp the whole distance betweene is called the breadth and Depth of Ranke and File It is requisite that in your martch and stand you regard your Leader and Side-men such as in Ranke shall be placed on your right left hands so that alwaies in File and Ranke you may bee found in the same Distance wherein you are commanded It is to be obserued that by these wordes as you were it is intended to reduce the Souldier to the same place of order wherin he stood before It is likewise to bee remembred that when you double your Files to any hand by doubling your Rankes to the contrary hand they are as they were and so of Rankes vt supra It is further to be remembred that in chargeing with Pikes only the first fiue Ranks doe charge for the length of the longest Pike being but eighteene foot long the Pikes of the first Ranke can but reach ouer the shoulders of the Front so that if they should bee driuen to Retreat all the Rankes chargeing the Subdiuision which are the fiue Rankes on the Reare rather hinder and hurt their Leaders then doe any seruice It is therefore conuenient that the subdiuision hold their Pikes ported or aduanced for then they are readie vpon all occasions to charge without any difficultie or preiudice to their fellowes for it is to be vnderstood that the most exquisite Captains do hold in these dayes what Caesar in his time practised which is to martiall the Companies in square manuples of hundreds especially Pikes so that neuer or very seldome they file their men but ten in depth If any shall question why in this A B C I set downe postures onely for two weapons let him bee pleased to receiue this for satisfaction all short weapons as Targateers Bill-men or Holbardeers are in these times meerely out of vse and Archerie is so much controuerted by different opinions whether seruiceable or not necessarie for vse and is so strongly and strangely opposed and so weakely waueringly defended That were it not for those two euer memorable victories next vnder God won by them I meane Cressy and Agincourt It would grow questionable whether euer it were in vse amongst Englishmen But leauing that question vndecided I onely affirme as in all other things so in warre there is a vicissitude of weapons whereof I may truly say as one of words Multa renascuntur quaeiam cecidere cadentque quae nunc sunt in honore many weapons and instruments of war which were heretofore much praised and practised are by change of times and benefit of fresher inuention either cast cleane out of doores or at least permitted to hang in houses like monumenta adorandae rubiginis retayning the bare name of furnitures without praise or practice And for your bare Pike and Harcubuz or small shot they are included in the tractate of Pike and Musket and excepting the vse or practice of the Musket rest the Harcubuz and Musket haue one and the same Postures and frustra fit per plura quod fieripossit per pauciora Amphora cepi Institui currente rota nunc vrceus exit Opus vsus my more then ordinary visiters knock at my study-dore and cōmand me and the rather since in this vngratefull age and amongst thanklesse Plebeians all paines in this kind merit but mocks to attend profit priuate not publike more magistrorum Therefore what I begun with iumps and by fits I end with c. c. Lingua in Consilio valet in Certamine dextra Ad Lectores prorsus indignos THere are some whom Nature begun but neuer finisht whose heatlesse and heartlesse trunkes like ouer-growne Thistles in a fertile soyle heaue vp their vnprofitable heads aboue the reach of better deseruing persons and like Dogs in mangers neither doe nor suffer to be done But squaring all other mens indeuours by the crooked leuell of their pseudopoliticall conceits condemne what is most commendable in others yet neither doe nor say any thing themselues worthy cōmenditions These Gallinaceus mushrumps qui fungino genere se totum caput tegunt all head and no heart lye snarling at Souldiers and the profession militarie and not hauing grace enough to make a prologue to a reasonable breake-fast nor heart enough to oppose a Ginny-Hen if her feathers ruffle doe most of all being sensible in nothing but blowes traduce as vnchyistiā the practice of militarie discipline and terme the Professors thereof bloudie and barbarous such pusillanimous Plebeians I bar by mayne procul hinc procul ite profani Yet if any such meticulous Buffone chance to besmeare my well intended preuention of idlenesse with the slime of his calumny let him be assured that I rather pitty his want of wit then feare his will or skill in rayling or reasoning against the man or the matter quod decuit tantos cur mihi turpe putem c. I know the force of his circumstances can neuer infer the conclusion hee will labour for but as he begins with A. he will get but the addition of double S. and so I leaue him and rest A Friend to the Friend of a Souldier I. T.