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72. Sixteen-hundred. Edmonds, Sir Clement.
The Maner of Our Moderne Training, Or Tadticke Prac-
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in 4', 3 fF. to H and Bb, no G, Cc4 blank ; Bks. VI.-VIL, b-r in 4*, r4
blank; "Moderne Training", f (6 fF.) "
; Civill Warres ", B and C in 4%
D-V in 6*. Separate pag. to all but " Moderne Training ", which follows
Bk. VII. The names of the successive owners entered in MS. They were
Ben Jonson, to whom the copy was presented by the author, Henry
Theobald, Richard Stevens, Edward Cudworth, Berkhenstead, John
Martin, Thomas Rookwood, and Sir Thomas Gage in 1807. Autograph
of Edmonds.
Some copies were sent out under the same tp., with the imprint "
: 1609.
London Printedfor Math. Lownes.'* But all of Bks. I.- V., between F6 and Cc
is from a fresh set-up [sigs. G-R in 6% and S (5 fF.)], while the "Second
Observation " on chap, vii., Bk. V., is replaced by an epistle to Sir Robert
Drury. Bks. VI. -VII. and the " Moderne Training" are omitted altogether.
Other eds. : London. R. Daniel. 16^$. /hi. ; London. Tho Newcomb for
Jonathan Edwin. ib']'j. fol.-y London. i6g^./ol.-y all with the "Moderne
Training", and the last with de Rohan's "Observations'* upon each chapter,
tise.
Folio.
Included in the Second Part of the " Observations on Caesar's Commentaries"
(ed, 1604, pp. 129-138); and in all subsequent eds. except the dated
ed. of 1609. In everything but portability, it is the earliest example in
English of anything approaching our " Drill Book." Edmonds says of it
" For as much as my purpose was to make this taske of Obseruations as a
paralel to our moderne Discipline, I did not think it fit to mingle the
Ta6licke Praftise of these times with the vse of foregoing ages,
but rather
to shut vp these discourses therwith as the second line of this warlike paralell,
which is thus drawne in the best fashion of moderne Art." [V. No. 71.]
73. Sixteen-hundred. Smith, Thomas.
The Art of Gvnnery. Wherein is set forth a number
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of ser- uiceable secrets, and prad:icall conclusions, be-
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longing to the Art of Gunnerie, by Arithmeticke skill
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be accomplished : both pretie, pleasant, and profitable for all
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such as are professors of the same facultie.
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Compiled by
Thomas Smith of Barwicke vpon Tweed Souldier.
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London,
Printedfor William Ponsonhy. 1600,
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