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

drawne from the aftioris of the |
Prince of Orange. The
second discourseth of warre,
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souldiers, and the time when it
is conuenient : collefted out of the heroicall examples of
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Count Mansfield. Where, as in a mirrour, meet to be perused
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by Kings, Princes,
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all degrees throughout
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Nobles,
Knights, Gentlemen, and men of
the
whole kingdome, to behold with
what consideration they should first enter into the warre,
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with what cou- rage they should prosecute them, and how
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to deale with a common Enemy. Dedicated to Count
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Mansfield, and the honourable Councell of Warre. Printed
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at London by B. A, for Thomas Archer, and are to bee
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sold at
his shop in Popes head Alley, ouer against the signe
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the Horseshoe,
1625.
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Quarto.
Collation. Ded. to Ernest, Count Mansfield, A2-3 ; another to Oliver,
Viscount Grandison, " One of the Council of War," both subs. G. M.,
, .. A32-4.—Verses, B1-3.—R.H. : " Vox Militis."—Sigs. in 4% A-I2.
Copies. B.M.
Contents. The initials G. M. are those of George Marcelline, and not of
Gervase Markham, as given by Lowndes. " Vox Militis " is purloined from
Barnaby Rich's " AUarme to England " [No. 22].
106. Sixteen-twenty-five. Neade, William.
The Double-armed Man, By the New Inuention :
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Briefly
shewing some famous Exploits atchieued by our Brittish
Bowmen : With seuerall Portraitures proper for the Pike
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and Bow.
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By W. N. Archer.
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Printedfor I. Grismand, at
the signe of the Gun in Pauls Alley, 1625.
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Ouarto.
Collation. Ded. to Charles I., A2-4 ; another to the High Court of
c^' Parliament, Bi.— Pref., B2.—R.H. : "The Double-Armed Man, by the
new Invention."—No pag.—Sigs. in 4% A-E. Six full page woodcuts, in
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the Guildhall copy, seven, the second a duplicate of that on tp. Grenville's
note to his copy (B.M.) runs: "This book very seldom occurs. It is
described in Brydge's Brit. Bib. ii. 412. This was the author's copy, as
appears from a MS. note at the back of Frontispiece." This note is to the
cfFecSt that the privilege of making the quivers and the engines for fastening
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