Turn the butt ends of your Muskets to the right 2 Raise up your Muskets with the help of your Rests 3 Sever Muskets and Rests and Poise 2 SHOULDER YOUR MUSKETS 2 1 Slip your left hands down from the heads of your Rests 2 Bring Muskets and Rests before you placing your Rests crosse the stocks of your Muskets 3 Lay your Muskets properly on your shoulders 3 UNSHOULDER YOUR MUSKETS 3 1 Slip and turn 2 Place your right hands behinde the Scutcheons of your Muskets 3 Sever your Muskets and Rests and poise 4 JOYNE YOUR RESTS TO THE OUTSIDE OF YOUR MUSKETS 4 1 Slip your left hands up to the head of your Rests 2 Ioyn your Rests to your Muskets 3 Sink your Muskets and Rests by your right sides 5 OPEN YOUR PANS AND CLEER 5 1 Open your Pans 2 Raise your Muskets 3 Cleer your Pans by blowing 6 PRIME YOUR PANS 6 1 Take your Primers into your right hand 2 Put powder into your pans 3 Return your touchboxes 7 SHUT AND CLEER YOUR PANS 7 1 Shut your Pans 2 Cast off your loose corns 3 Blow off your loose corns 8 BRING ABOUT YOUR MUSKETS TO CHARGE 8 1 Step forwards with your right legs and poise by your left sides 2 Trail your Rests between your bodies and your Muskets 3 Ballance your Muskets in your left hands 9 CHARGE WITH POWDER 9 1 Take your chargers into your right hands and slip off the caps with your thumbes 2 Put powder into your Muskets 3 Return back your charges 10 CHARGE WITH BULLET 10 1 Take your Bullets out of your mouthes 2 Slip up your hands by the barrels of your Muskets and put in your Bullets 3 Clap your hands on your Muskets to shake them down 11 DRAW FORTH YOUR SCOURING STICKS 11 1 Lay hands on your Scowring sticks and draw them a little 2 Take lower hold and draw them past the middle 3 Draw them forth and hold up the Rammer ends 12 SHORTEN YOUR SCOURING STICKS 12 1 Turn the Rammer ends towards your bodies 2 Set the Rammer ends under your right paps 3 Slip down your hands within an inch of the ends 13 PUT YOUR STICKS INTO YOUR MUSKETS 13 1 Put the Rammer ends into your Muskets 2 Take higher hold and put them further in 3 Take higher hold and put them home 14 RAM HOME YOUR CHARGERS 14 1 Ram home 2 With three 3 Stroakes 15 WITHDRAW YOUR SCOURING-STICKS 15 1 Draw forth your sticks a little 2 Take lower hold and draw them further 3 Draw them forth and hold up the screw-ends 16 SHORTEN YOUR SCOURING-STICKS 16 1 Turn the screw-ends towards your bodies 2 Set the ends under your left paps 3 Shorten your sticks to an handfull 17 Return your Scouring-sticks 17 1 Put their ends into the grooves sliding them a little down with your thumbes 2 Take higher hold and thrust them further in 3 Lay your middle fingers on their ends and thrust them home 18 Recover your Muskets and Rests 18 1 Bring forwards your Muskets with your left hands 2 Poise your Muskets in your right hands 3 Recover your Rests 19 Ioyne your Rests to the outside of your Muskets 19 1 Slip your left hands to the heads of your Rests 2 Ioyne your Rests to your Muskets before you 3 Sink your Muskets and Rests by your right sides 20 Cock your Matches 20 1 Draw forth one of the ends of your Matches 2 Blow your coals together 3 Place your Matches in your Cocks 21 Try your Matches and guard your Pans 21 1 Draw down your Cocks and fit your Matches 2 Let your Cocks flie back 3 Guard your Pans 22 Present upon your Rests 22 1 Blow your Coals 2 Open your Pans 3 Present keeping the Muzels of your Muskets mounted 23 Give fire Brest high 23 1 Levell your Muskets on your Rests 2 Set the butt-ends to your shoulders 3 Draw your Trickers and give fire 24 Vncock your Matches 24 1 Mount the muzels of your Muskets 2 Vncock and return your Matches 3 Shut your Pans Having thus performed their postures the Phife and Drum play the falling of Tune in the interim whereof the Muskettiers perform their Saluting posture and wheel of by division two to the right and two to the left placing themselves in the reere of the Pikes After this maner the Tune is playd once over to every Rank The Falling of Tune At 3 Advance At 3 Shoulder At 3 Comport 3 Shoulder 3 Advance 3 Shoulder 3 Order 3 Shoulder 3 Comport 3 Advance 3 Charge Front 3 Charge Front 3 Charge to Front 3 Shoulder 3 Comport 3 Advance 3 Charge Reere 3 Charge Reere 3 Charge to Reer 3 Shoulder 3 Comport 3 Order 3 Order 3 Order The Postures as aforesaid were first done with the Muskettiers in the Front the Pikes at the same instant performing their Postures in the Reere of the Muskettiers the body then standing as the figure under A when the Muskettiers gave fire they stood as figure B. When the Pikes did their postures in the Van then the body stood as under figure C. Â A Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â C Â M M M M Â Â Â Â Â Â P P P P M M M M Â Â B Â Â P P P P M M M M Â M M M M Â P P P P M M M M M Â Â Â Â M P P P P P P P P M Â Â Â Â M M M M M P P P P M Â Â Â Â M M M M M P P P P M Â Â Â Â M M M M M P P P P Â M M M M Â M M M M The Muskettiers having performed their postures and wheeled off as abovesaid Then the Captain and Ensigne the Drums beating a troop lead up the Pikes towards the upper end of the Hall into the place where formerly the Muskettiers stood then the Drums strike an Alt. The Captain and other Officers as formerly quit the body And the second time that the Posture Almayn is playd over the Pikes begun their Postures The Muskettiers at the same time doing their postures in the reere of the Pikes as formerly in the Front Note that the first strein of the posture Almayne was playd twice over and the last streyn twice over after this manner the whole tune was doubly plaied twice over wherewith consorted and ended both the postures of Muskets and Pikes together The Pikemen having performed their Postures the Captain and Ensigne move to the head of the Pikes the Lieutenant to the reere of the Muskettiers the other Officers to their severall places the Drums beat a troop the Pikes advance the Muskettiers face to the right and left outward and march to the Angles of their Pikes then face as before The Pikemen in the interim doing their obeysance and countermarching to the right every rank saluting as they come into the Front and so countermarch to the right untill the File-leaders of the pikes are
together and order Armes with the end of the Tune Half-files double your Front by devision In the first streyn of the tune the half-files advance their Armes face to the right and left moving untill they are cleere off the standing part of the Body With the beginning of the second streine they face all to the Front and march forwards untill they have evened the Front then order Armes with the end of the tune For Reducement Half files face about inward and march into your places With the beginning of the first streyne the half-files face about and move down to the Reere of the Front half-files In the second part of the tune the front half-files open to the right and left to their open Order the Reere half files in the meane time placing themselves directly after their Leaders all facing to the Front and ordering Armes with the end of the Tune COVNTERMARCHES Files to the right hand Countermarch At the Close of the first streyne of the Tune the File-leaders must be even in rank with the Bringers up the rest of the ranks even one with another With the beginning of the second streyne they all move forwards and finish the Countermarch keeping their Aspects to the Reere and order Armes with the end of the Tune Files to the left hand Countermarch In this Countermarching Files to the left they are to observe the former directions both for time and posture Ranks to the right hand Countermarch With the beginning of the first streyne the whole Body faceth to the right the right hand File turning off together and moving even a-brest towards the left untill the right hand file of Muskettiers be all met even in rank with the left hand file the Pikes in like manner being inserted one file within the other where-with ends the first streyne of the tune With the beginning of the second streyne the Countermarch is continued and perfected all facing to the front and ordering Armes with the end of the Tune For Reducement Ranks to the left hand Countermarch With the beginning of the first streyne the whole body faceth to the left and performes the Countermarch according to the former directions only differing in the hand Front and Reer Half-files interchange ground With the first streyne of the musick the whole body advanceth their Armes the front half-files facing about to the right each division passing forwards to the right between each others Intervalls or files untill the File-leaders become even with the Reer Ranke then stand with the Close of the first streyne With the beginning of the second streyne the divisions move forwards that division that moveth towards the bottome of the Hall must have an eye to their followers that so they may face all about to the left together and Order their Armes with the Close of the Musick For Reducement Front and Reer half-files interchange ground This second interchanging of ground is for the reducement of the former wherein you are punctually to observe the former directions Half-files double your Front to the left With the beginning of the first streyne the Reere half-files advance their Armes moving forwards into the Front-half-files until the half-file leaders are even in Rank with the File-leaders the other Ranks being even one with another then all order Armes with the Close of the first streyne With the beginning of the second streyne the whole Body advance their Armes and face about to the right marching down towards the Skreene untill the proper File-leaders be in the middle of the Hall Then all face about to the right and order Armes with the end of the Tune WHEELINGS Wheele your battell to the right upon the same ground This Wheeling is to be performed on the first streyne of the Tune and in the Motion the right Flank is to face to the left using a reasonable quick Motion The left Flank wheele slowly to the right being come to their ground all order Armes with the end of the first streyne For Reducement Wheele your Battell to the left on the same ground Now the left Flank is to face to the right the rest to performe in like manner according to the former directions This wheeling is but the Reducement of the other and to be done to the second streyne of the Tune Wheele your Front into the midst With the beginning of the Musick the two middlemost File-leaders are to move very slowly the Muskettiers on the Wings must use a swifter motion being Wheeled together all are to face to the proper Front and Order their Armes with the Close of the first streyne For Reducement Wheele your Reer into the midst With the beginning of the second streyne of the Musick all face about to the right then wheele together as before Lastly face all to the proper Front and order Armes with the end of the Tune Wheele Front and Reere into both Flanks With the beginning of the Tune the Body faceth to the right and left outward and then Wheele together as formerly facing to the proper Front and ordering Armes with the end of the first streyne With the second streyne Advance Armes face in opposition Close your divisions face to the Front and order Armes with the end of the Tune Reducement Wheele both Flanks into the Front and Reere With the beginning of the Musick all advance Armes and the half-files Face about to the Right then wheel together as formerly Lastly face all to the proper Front and order Armes with the close of the first streyne With the second streyne face all in opposition close your divisions face to your proper front and Order your Armes with the end of the musick The end of the motions THE motions of the body thus ended the Captain Lieu t. Ensigne and other officers take their severall places the drums trooping them thither The Captain having saluted his Company The drums beat a lofty English March and the Captain leads the company forth in divisions once about the Hall each officer marching in his due place Being at the lower end by the skreene the drums beat a troop the Pikes advance the Ranks close forwards to their Order and each officer leads up his division to the left Then all together in a faire brest they troop forwards into the middle of the Hall and there make an Alt all ordering their Armes This being done the Captain Lieutenant Sergeants phife and drums quit the Body again the Ensigne onely remaining with the company After some small pause the phife and drum begin the Almain once over both streynes the body standing as the Figure under E. Here begin the Firings To make the first Figure Vpon the second time of the musicks playing over with the beginning of the first    E    M M P P P P M M M M P P P P M M M M P P P P M M M M P P P P M M streyn the Muskettiers
He with a carelesse garbe viewing the Spectators and with eyes darting forth disdaine demonstrating a kinde of haughty scorn by the gesture of his body against the supposed Temeritie of the Christians whom he beleeved to have been fled But they to the contrary all this time kept good espiall upon him suffering him to swell rather by opinion then fortune For even now when his insolence was at the highest he heard the Christians drums beating a March Captain VENS Company approaching so neare that they were now entring the Hall by the Skreen Assoon as they were entred the Christians drew into Battalia the drums beating a preparative they advance forwards and charge the Saracens and they perceiving their numbers to be so small as willingly meet them Captain VEN had all his Musketts in the front of his Pikes and the enemie his battells were ranged as in Figure 17. The shot playd thick on both sides as sometimes being in front sometimes on the flanks sometimes again in the Reere other-whiles in the midst The Politick Captains still varying of their formes on either side as might make best for their own advantages each striving for the Garland of victory But by this time the Ambush under the conduct of Lieutenant SHEPPARD was ready to fall on and therefore Captain VEN caused his drums beat a Retrait firing and charging Pikes retreating thereby to draw the Turks from their strength into disorder The Turks perceiving the Christians to give ground charge fiercely on But the Christian Captain made but a politick retreat thereby to draw the Turks from their advantage of ground that so the ambushment might have opportunity to charge them in the Reere This as it was contrived fell out accordingly For the Lieutenant who all this while had kept himself and souldiers close now perceiving his opportunity Ranged all his Muskettiers in front and with all possible secrecie drew close up to the Reere of the Enemie Then all on a sudden powring out a great salue of shot he therewith even rent and tore the order of the Enemie Now the Christians charge both in Front and Reere the Turcoman Lieutenant with an undaunted courage faced his half-files about and with an unparalleld resolution singled out the Christian Lieutenant with his well tempered Cymiter laying about him like a Turk Insomuch that Lieutenant Sheppard with his Partizan had much ado with all his skill and dexteritie to keep him at the point The other striving to hew out a way before him even through steel fire and flame with his well cutting Fauchion slicing and paring the Christian Lieutenants Partizan as if it had been a a wodden dagger and not a composure of steel Neverthelesse the Christian Lieutenant perceiving the Turcoman to be a proper personage and not willing to destroy so goodly a presence He therefore stood politickly on the defensive whilst the other tired himself by his own fury All this while the Souldiers are likewise at it with their short guns swords and targets against the Christians with their Muskets and whole Pikes where we will leave them a while striving like contrary elements and return into the Front to see how MULLEY-ACHMAT behaved himself against the Christian Captain who as I foreshewed had given back purposely to draw the Turk from his advantage of ground that so his Lieutenant might the more commodiously give on in the Reere The which accordingly taking effect he gave a fresh charge in the front at which the Saracens began to stagger perceiving themselves to be doubly charged in Front and Reere Mully Aben seeing his people began to waver meant to doe something in person so to re-inforce his Battell and therewithall casting away his Pole-axe betooke himselfe to his Battell-ax and Target therewith working wonders forcing the heads of the best armed Pikes to give him way that so he might encounter the Christian Captain Who at the same time supervising his Battels as being carefull to prevent all crosse accidents of Warre he saw what havock the Turk made in person Whereupon singling him out between them two began a fierce fight The Turke at the first encounter receiving a wound in the hand from the Christian Captain wherewithall being so much the more enraged he endeavoured to get within him intending to have stabd him with a poysoned Creese which he continually wore at his side hoping with his fall to conclude the victory But the wary Christian perceiving his fury held him close to it still keeping the point of his weapon at his breast Inraged ACHMAT even foming with anger that he could not work his designe resolved for his last refuge with the remains of his over-wearied Turks to break through the Battell of the Christians But the vigilant Captain having drawn all his Pikes in Front closely serried together kept them so close up that they could not make the least penetration Whereupon being quite out of heart with joynt consent they cryed for quarter after the Turkey maner casting their weapons on the ground and laying their left hands on their heads with a loud voice crying Saybe-Sallam The Christian Captain remembring how valiantly they had beaved themselves in fight took compassion on them and disarming them commanded them to passe through between his Files into the Reere Lieutenant Sheppard in like maner with his Souldiers following them placing his Souldiers in the Reere of the Turks So that the Christians had 4. ranks 2. Ranks in the Front and 2. Ranks in the Reere of the Captive Turks They being in 2. Ranks in the midst of the Conquerors Then the Christian Captain caused the first Rank of Turks to move between the first and second Ranks in the Front The second Rank of Turks between the third and fourth Ranks in the Reere Being content himself to have gained the victory he took onely the Captain MULLEY-ABEN-ACHMAT for his prisoner MULLEY-SHECK the Turkey Lieutenant being Lieutenant Sheppards prisoner ABEN-ABDELLA the Turkey Ensigne being prisoner to Ensigne Gould the rest of the Turks being equally divided amongst the Souldiers every two Souldiers having one Turkey prisoner between them the Captain thus bountifully rewarding his skilfull and conquering Souldiers This being performed the Captain led forth his Company again in divisions the Turks being pinioned with peeces of Match After the Captain marched dejected MULLEY ACHMAT Then a division of Muskettiers being but two in Rank and a Turkey prisoner between them every Rank having one in like maner Then marched Ensigne Gould at the head of the first division of Pikes displaying his Ensigne in token of victory ABEN ABDELLA being led and the Saracen Ensigne being carried after him Lastly after the Reere division of Muskets marched Lieutenant Sheppard leading with him his prisoner bold MULLEY-SHECK In this triumphing maner Captain VEN led his Company thrice about the Hall the Drums beating a March where it was a goodly sight to see how every Souldier was enriched with one spoyle or other the which they carried in