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war_n	bullet_n	great_a	piece_n	2,015	5	9.9190	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41533	The present state of the republick of Venice as to the government, laws, forces, riches, manners, customes, revenue, and territory of that common-wealth : with a relation of the present war in Candia / written by J. Gailhard, gent.	Gailhard, J. (Jean)	1669 (1669)	Wing G126; ESTC R17673	97,861	294

further that with the help of some strangers and by the means of those few light horsemen which they can raise out of their own Dominions they could for a while be masters of the field but at last they could not keep it And of this kind of men they could set on foot somewhat above 6000 light horsemen and musquetiers of their own Subjects with some strangers in part of Albania and Sfaciotti as they call them drawn from the Sea Coasts and Inland Towns the former are good enough to rob to scout and interrupt the Convoyes of provisions for Armies and even to fall unawares upon the Enemy but having weak horses and themselves being not well armed they cannot hold out very long against the Enemy the latter likewise are not much worth only inasmuch as they have better horses then the former and because also they are better men Nevertheless the Republick keeps on foot but few Troops of those of Albania in time of peace to suppress the Banditi who gathering sometimes in a body do much disturb the Countrey with their robberies and other oppressions As for the rest in time of peace the Republick hath no other body of Souldiers but five troops of Horse which are in all 460 and are obliged to keep two horses a man whose pay is ten Crowns a moneth which persons are all alike in this that none are willing to serve except their priviledges and freedomes be made good to them notwithstanding their horses are weak and dull and cannot very long endure hardships being of very little or no account at all These are all the Land Forces of the Republick which at present are not increased except in Dalmatia and the Recruits sent from time to time to Candia for the great charges that the present War engages them to are by Sea hence it appears that these Land Forces are not constant nor ordinary but collective gathered here and there of not much valour nor experience wherewith all humane actions ought to consist which tend to the safety of Princes although it be the hardest and most difficult to be attained unto Nevertheless to what we said may be added that there are 6000 Cannoniers or Gunners and others belonging to Artillery who indeed are serviceable men Now I will come to the Sea-forces of this Republick which I consider either as to materials ready fitte and disposed or in all manner of provisions other things necessary for war as are Souldiers Ammunition Armes and the like As to the first the Republick is plentifully provided with every thing necessary to such occasions as Timber and all manner of Wood Iron Hemp Pitch c. Of every one of these there is great store and quantity in the Arsenal placed in a good order Now this Arsenal is the most ancient at present the best known in the world without exception or hyperbole as for the generality and variety of things made in it so for the number and quantity of them there being no Army how strong soever and great but it may be supplyed thence with all manner of necessaries for in the year 1570 they armed 150 light Gallies 11 great Gallies 1 Galeon and 25 great ships and of late years 't was also observed by experience when it furnished 120 Sails besides that vast quantity of what remained in it of offensive and defensive armes which are all placed and distributed in an admirable order This Arsenal is in a place separated from the City compassed about with high walls upon the which are two little Towers and hath the Sea water round about it there is but one Gate to go into it and a channel whereby their shipping goes in and out Within it for these six hundred years and above they have gathered almost an infinite number of all sorts of warlike instruments of gallies oares masts say ls all manner of tackling in the making or preparing of which are constantly employed rare and excellent workmen who have nothing else to mind It is a known story that when Henry the third of France took Venice in his way out of Poland into France one day whilst he was at dinner an handsome and a stately Galley was fitted for him to go upon the Sea to take the air and though two pieces of it were not together before he sate down as soon as he had dined 't was ready to go out which shews how ready are their materials and how quick are their workmen and nothing was done then but what could again as easily be performed upon occasion But to come to some particulars of the description of this Arsenal I say there are vaste and spacious rooms full of head pieces breast and back pieces pistols musquets swords pikes halbards partizans two-handed swords bows arrows small guns c. And under these rooms are others which in an excellent and orderly disposition are full of great Guns half Canons of brass and iron Culverins and a vast number of Granadoes mortar-Mortar-pieces and of all manner of Artillery besides the great quantity of bullets of iron of which the Republick hath several good mines All the forenamed things are lookt to by men appointed to that purpose who are not only curious to get into the Arsenal all manner of new invented instruments of War but also take an extraordinary care of those they have already which are placed in so good an order that it is a great pleasure and satisfaction to behold it In a word they have in this place every necessary thing for 150 ships and to arme above 200000 men besides that great number of armes which are in the palace of St. Mark and in the houses of particular Noblemen whereof they are the pomp and part of their ornaments But because 't is not enough for a State to have great store of armes except there be in it people enough fit to make use of them both out of their natural disposition and experience gotten by the exercise of the discipline of War and except they have good and experienced Officers to train them to it So the Republick wanting some of these things is put to it when it is needful to get good Souldiers especially when there is some extraordinary occasion of arming by Land or by Sea but chiefly by Land Now I will mention some particulars about their Sea affairs they have a constant and setled body of a Fleet or Armata of 50 Gallies which in a fortnights time may be fitted for service with all necessary provisions seeing the Scuole the several companies and secular fraternities are obliged to furnish 25 with Rowers to which end they cast lots thereby to know who is to serve so that either they must go themselves or else find persons fit to do service Also all the watermen as well those of Venice as others who go upon the Rivers of the State are obliged to arm other 25 Gallies and find Rowers these as the former are chosen by lot But further