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 47
crs, no difparagement unto the fault-finders (ifthere happen to be any fuch.) As for the noble,worthy, and well-knowing Sduldiers,I amalmoftconfident that out of their true-fpeaking judge-ments, they will eyther conclude that it is fo ufed,or at the leaft that it ought fo to bejbut if this can… … Chap. VI. Of the fever all dtflmccs, 3 Ow that our Souldiers have attainedfome fmall knowledge in the ufc oftheir Armes (me thjnkes like fomeof our little-knowing fouldiers ofthe trained Bands) they alreadybegin to be ambitious of File-lea-ders places; therefore that their owne weakenef-fes may…
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