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

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Norton expresses his intention of translating Tartaglia's ** Nuova Scicntia
if he ever did so, the translation is lost.
loi. Sixteen-twenty-four. L., A.
Speculum Belli sacri : Or The Looking-Glasse
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Of The
Holy War, Wherein is discovered : The Evill
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of War.
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The Good of Warr.
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The Guide of War. In The Last Of
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These I Give A Scantling Of The Christian
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Tackticks, from
the levying of the Souldier, to the
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sounding of the Retrait ;
together vv^ith a modell
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of the carryage, both of the Conquerour
and con-
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quered. I haue applyed the generall]
rules vi^arranted by the Word, to
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the particular necessity!
of our present
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times. [Eight lines of quotations.]
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Printed,
Anno 1624. {^London f]
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Quarto.
Collation. Four Deds., ist to King of Bohemia, all subs. "A. L.", A2-C1.
—Cts., C2.—Err., Vvij.—R.H. : "The Looking-glasse of the holy War."
—Sigs. in 4», A-Z, Aa-Vv2.
Copies. B.M.; R.A.I.
Contents. The author was Alexander Leighton, the Puritan writer. In
the present work, "the sacred word is made the loadstone, the compass,
and the lesbian rule whereby to square and direct" military praftice. The
speeches and writings of the Cromwellians have made us fiamiliar
sort of thing.
with this
102. Sixteen-twenty-four. G., W.
Covnt Mansfields (
Directions
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Given To All
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His Officers and Souldiers in Generall. London,
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Printed
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are to be sold at his
by Edw: Allde for Richard Whittaker, and
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shop in Pauls Church- yard, at the Kings head, \
1624.
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Quarto.
Collation. Tp., A I, has woodcut.—Ded. to Charles, Prince of Wales, etc.,
subs. W. G., A2-3.—Cts., A4.—R.H.
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: The Office of a Regiment and their
Duties ", " The Office of a Troupe of Horse '*, " The Dignitie of Souldiers
in their Fyles."—Sigs. in 4% A-H.
Copies. B.M.
81 M