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able disciplined Notes and Obseruations.
London Printed by
Edward Griffin and are to be sold by William Bvtler, . . .
1619.
Quarto.
A-Ff in 4% Ff4, blank. Ded. : to Charles, Prince of Wales.—Hazlitt,
ii. 159. A copy in the Bod., which is entered in the catalogue as another
ed. of the " Military Diredions " of Davies. This is, therefore, the book
entered in the Register of the Stationers' Company as follows: "23"
Januarij 16 17
\i.e. 161 8J Master Griffin. Entred for his Copie vnder the
handes of master Tauernor and master warden lownes a booke called millitary
directions by John [sic] Davis tyX"—Arber, iii. 619.
This title, taken from Hazlitt, contains the earliest use of the word
** drilling," in the sense of exercising soldiers, that I have come across
antedating by three years the quotation from Massinger, given in Murray's
dictionary.
Another Edition Sixteen-twenty-two.
The Military Art of Trayning, with a
Description of all
Martiall Officers . . . With the Discipline of Drilling both
for the Musket and Pike . . . London, Printed by Edw:
All-dee, and are to bee solde in Lomberd-street, at the Signe of
the Angelly by Roger Daniell,
Oaavo.
A-F2 in eights.
itzz,
Dedicated by the publisher to Charles, Prince of Wales.
—Hazlitt, i. 290. "13° Aprilis 1622. Master Aldee. Entred for his
Copie , , , A booke called. The militarie Art of Trayning. v/