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 275
ect, that I fcould reduce eve-ry particular firing, lo foone as it is performed $ asI have done by thefe hitherto fliewed, but ratherlet it be futable to your likings, that I reduce firingsby firings: fometimes giving fire upon a march;fometimes uponay?<*ffi.* fometimes, to the frontand reere;… … offiringto the front andreere, upon a march. He Muskettiers being all placed inthe front and reerey f according tothe directions in the laft Chapter) Iwill now fhew the manner of firingto the front and r*#?, upon a march.Which however that it may beerare, and feldome ufefull mfervice; yet it…
Military art and science
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