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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 28

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