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Collation. Engraved efhblematic tp.—Ded. to John, Earl of Rothes, fi-2.
— Prefs., 113-11113.—Verses, 1[1F4-1I1[iri.— Col.: " Printed at Edinburgh by the
Heires of Andro Hart. Anno Dom. 1627."— Diags. and ills.,
R.H., varied.—Sigs. in 4', i f. unsigned, H-IFITlIi, A-R2.
Copies. B.M.
one folding.
Contents. In twelve chapters : I. Footmen and their arming. II. Of files
and ranks. III. Of distances, i.e. open order, order, and close order. IV.
Marching. V. Manual and firing exercise. VI.-X. Parade movements. XI.
Of the particular exercising of pikemen and musketeers—an excellent account.
XII. Words of command for pike and musket in exercising and on service.
There is another work entitled "Pallas Armata," written in 1670-71 by
Sir James Turner, and printed in London 1683. Turner's is the earliest
history of military antiquities, and is frequently quoted from by Grose.
114. Sixteen-twenty-eight. Norton, Robert.
The Gvnner Shewing The Whole Pradise OfArtillerie
: With all the Appurtenances there- vnto belonging.
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Warre and Seruice. Written by Robert Norton, one of his
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Maiesties Gunners and Enginiers.
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London.,
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Churchyard. 1628.
Folio.
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to be sold at the three Pidgeons
Collation. Emblematic tp., A2.— Ded. to Charles I., A3.—Verses, A 4.
—Cts., A5.—Err., A6.—Pref., Bi-22.—"Envoy ", Y3,.—Small ills, and
diags. and 24 full-page engravings, with letterpress in Fr. and Ger.— R.H.
" The Praaise of Artillerie."—Sigs. in 4% A-Y j A has 6 ff:, Y4, blank.
Copies. B.M. ; Roy. Art. Inst.; W.O. (2)
; Bod.; R.U.S.I.
Contents. Entered Reg. Sta. Co., Dec. 27, 1627, as "Of the Elements
and Pradlice of Artillery."—Arber, iv. 191. To save expense, the full-page
plates were printed from de Bry's plates to his French and German versions
of Ufano's " Artilleria" (Francfort, 1614, fol), Norton anticipated that it
would therefore be said that " The Gunner " was only a translation ; he
denies this, but admits an adaptation. He claims to have avoided " the apparant
errors of Santbech, the erronious principles of Tartaglia, the false
rules of Russelli, the time ouer-worne direftions of Cataneo, the grosse
allowances of Collado for Montures and Imbasings, especially the arch false
proportionality taught in Mr. Smiths Art of Gunnery, now entituled the
Complete Souldier, many of which are by Mr. Diggs and myself noted"}
Malthus rebukes him for his censoriousness.
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