A bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of ...

had gained a great reputation, at the expense of native teachers. At the
end of the book, under the heading "
: Brief notice of three Italian teachers
of offence " will be found anecdotes concerning these three, written with the
intention of bringing ridicule upon them. The " Vincentio " mentioned is
the famous Vincentio Saviolo, who, four years before, had published a work
on the Rapier and Dagger. The " Brief notice
'*
was reprinted in the
" Antiquarian Repertory," London, 1807, vol. i., p. 165.
Mr. Egerton Castle, in his "Schools and Masters of Fence" (London,
1 892), which contains an excellent catalogue of books on Fencing, mentions
another book by Silver, written slightly posterior to 1599, and entitled
" Brief Instrudions upon my Paradoxes of Defence for the handling of all
manner of weapons together with the four
grounds and the four governors,
which governors are left out in my paradoxes without the knowledge of
which no man can fight safe. Together with the admonitions to the gentlemen
and brave gallants of Great Britain."
70. Fifteen-ninety-nine.
The Mansion of Magnanimitie. . . . Published by Richard
Crompton, an apprentice of the common law, 1599. Whereunto
is also adjoyned a collection of divers lawes and statutes
meete to be knowne of all men : with a briefe table, shewing,
what munition ought to be kept by all sorts of her majesties
subje