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 346
afure, it will not be amifTc for tocaufe them to be intruded (in thefTrft place) in the Poflures of thefVfoand Musket. For thofe Souldiers which byoften practice of their Pojiures are growne perfecl^will manage their Armes with eafe, furety, and cele-rity : when, on the contrary, the… … 314 Military Difcipline, or T 1 — i , i ■ re&ions) brought to the headoi t*he Pikes; theRatikes evened, and the filesftreitned; the Laptaint(having commanded filence, and delivered him-felfein fuch tcarmes,as the prefent occafion dothrequire, ever preferring the indufirions and pain-full;…
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