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rest_n face_n front_n rear_n 2,418 5 12.9949 5 false
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A90047 Generall Lessley's direction and order for the exercising of horse and foot. Being a most exact, compendeous, and necessary direction for all such as are studiously devoted to the due exercise of armes, and principally intended for the young sort of the militia. Newark, David Leslie, Baron, d. 1682. 1642 (1642) Wing N837; Thomason E151_14; ESTC R20614 6,275 15

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