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 297
the font oipikes, beingprefented direft Rank-wife .- upon the firft Commana, they are all to givefire together,and then to face after their bringers up;who leade their files diredly into their places.Thisdone, they face to their proper front againe; theother files (in the meane time) leading forth… … files, after the fame manner ^ firing and returning:untillthey have all given fire $ and then they willbe all reduced, as at nrft. Chap. XCV. A ftrtngoblique, by fourefiles together fmforme of a W. LL the commendations, that maybegivenofthefe^/^f Figures, isthat they poweout a great deaie rfs jhot…
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