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A84286 The exercise of the English, in the militia of the kingdome of England. 1642 (1642) Wing E3862; Thomason E136_23; ESTC R262 5,137 8

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your Pikes Order your Pikes This must be observed charging your Pikes with a firme stand to set the right foot behind and charging the Pikes marching to set the left foot before For the Musket THe Postures in his Excellencies Booke are to be observed but in exercising you must onely use these three termes of direction Make ready Present Give fire Your Musketiers must observe in all their motions to turne to the right hand and that they carry the mouth of their peeces high aswell when they are shouldred as in pruning and also when they hold their pans guarded and come up to give fire In advancing towards an Enemy when they doe not skirmish loose and disbanded they must give fire by Ranks after this manner Two Rankes must alwayes make ready together and advance ten paces forward before the body at which distance a Sergeant or when the body is great some other Officer must stand to whom the Musketiers are to come up before they present and give fire first the first Ranke And whilest the first gives fire the second Ranke keepe their Muskets close to their Rests and their pannes guarded and assoone as the first are falne away the second presently present and give fire and fall after them Now assoone as the first two Rankes do move from their places in the front The two Rankes next them must unshoulder their Muskets and make ready so as they may advance forward ten paces as before assoone as ever the two first Rankes are falne away and are to do in all points as the former And all the other Ranks through the whole division must doe the same by two's one after another A manner there is to give fire retyring from an enemy and is performed after this sort As the Troope marcheth the hindermost ranke of all keeping still with the Troope is to make ready and being ready the Souldiers in that ranke turne all together to the right hand and give fire marching presently away a good round pace to the front and there place themselves in ranke together just before the front As soone as the first ranke turnes to give fire the ranke next makes ready and doth as the former and so the rest We give fire by the flanks thus The uppermost file next the Enemy must be commanded to make ready keeping still along with the body till such time as they be ready and then they turne to the right or left hand according to the sight of their enemies either upon the right or left flanke and give fire all together When they have discharged they stirre not but keepe their ground and charge their Peeces againe in the same place they stand Now as soone as the foresaid file doth turne to give fire the uttermost next it makes ready alwayes keeping along with the Troope till the Bringer-up be past a little beyond the Leader of that file that gave fire last and then the whole file must turne and give fire and doe in all points as the first did and so the rest one after the other A Sergeant or if the Troope be great some other better qualified Officer must stand at the head of the first file and assoone as the second file hath given fire and hath charged he is to lead forward the first file up to the second file and so to the rest one after another till he hath gathered up againe the whole wing and then he is to joyne them againe in equall front with the pikes Last of all the Troope or whole wing of Musquettiers makes ready all together and the first rank without advancing gives fire in the place they stand in and speedily as may be yet orderly falls away all the rankes doing the same successively one after another Thus much of the armes and exercise of the foote The horse ensue The order and discipline holden in the Horse-treopes or in the Cavalry The Cavalry hath for his Chiefe the Generall the Lieutenant Generall and the Commissary generall To the Cavalry there is a Quarter-master generall and a Provost generall belonging the Iustice resorteth to the Councell generall of warre of the Armie The Cavalry is of two sorts Harquebusiers and Curassiers The first have for defensive Armes the Curace pistol proof and a light head-peece For offensive the Carbine of 3 foote 3 inches length and the bore of 20 bullets in the pound and Pistols like unto the Curassiers The Curassiers have for defensive Armes a compleate armour the Curace pistoll proofe For offensive two pistols having the barrell of 26. inches in length and the bore of 36 bullets in the pound For the order in Regiments the 40. Companies entertained by the States doe make eleven Regiments The Regiment of the Generall hath alwayes the Vantguard the others alternatively and by turnes and he that hath it this day the next day after hath the Reare the rest following in the same sort Those which command the Regiments are called Coronels The Regiments are compounded of 3 or 4 Companies of 3 at the least and the Coronells Company marcheth alwayes on the left wing of the Regiment The Captaines receive orders from their Coronels as these from the Commissary Generall All the Companies are divided in 3 equall parts which are called Squadrons and distributed to the 3 chiefe Officers Captaine Cornet and Lieutenant having each of them adjoyned an old Souldier which they doe know to be of more desert called a Corporall Marching in the field every Officer marcheth at the head of his Squadron the Lieutenant excepted which marcheth behinde with the Quartermaster and the third Corporall at the head of the Lieutenants Squadron The Companies are divided by files and rankes the file 5 deepe and no more how strong soever the Company be They observe that in marching in battaile they must be close together and to doe the Motions there must be 6 foot distance from one Horseman to another The Companies being in battaile there must be 25 paces distance left betweene every Company and 50 betwixt every Regiment at the least The exercise of Armes for the Cavalry To open the Squadron you must first open the rankes and after the files To close the Squadron you must first close the files and after the rankes There be two sorts of distances betwixt the files the one close and the other open In the close there must be no distance or intervals betwixt the files to the open there must be 6 foot betwixt every file Likewise there must be two sorts of distances betwixt the rankes the Close which must be without intervall or street and the Open which must be six foot distance In a march it must be understood that the rankes must never be more opened than the open distance of 6 foot And to the end that the Troope may march in good order and observe well their distance betwixt the rankes without that the last may be forced to runne or goe too fast there must be heed taken that so soone as the first ranks begin to march all the Troope and the Reare also march The words of Command are Open your Rankes Open your Files Stand right in your Rankes Stand right in your Files To the right hand As you were To the left hand As you were To the right hand about To the left hand as you were To the left hand about To the right hand as you were Files to the right hand countermarch Files to the left hand countermarch To the right or left hand as you were Rankes to the right hand countermarch Rankes to the left hand countermarch Close your Files Close your Rankes To the right hand wheele To the left hand wheele FINIS