Military discipline: or, The young artillery man. Wherein is discoursed and showne the postures both of musket and pike: the exactest ways, & c. together with the motions which are to be used, in the exercising of a foot -company. With divers and severall formes and figures of battell .. (1635)
Barriffe, William · London, Printed by Thomas Harper · leaf 128
ecreafe. As when every ranke exceedsthe rdnke before ityby two, three, or foiire, be itmore or leffe. Or elfe that each ranke decreafeth,after the fame manner. Rightlyy Filet then ranke intire into the front;when there is/0 much difianct between*file and file,tiwill somamwh fikyrarike-mfe: every… … Chap. XXXVI.ofRankes wheeling by Convcrfion.. #F I would ftrive to bee curious, I% iTiould need no other fubjeel: to^ lengthen my difcourfe, but onelythis, of Inversion and Conversion,which of it felfe would yeeld mat-ter fumcient to make a Booke of. But I have takena large taske. And therefore…
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