A bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of ...
A bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of ...
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120. Sixteen-twenty-nine. Achesone, James.<br />
Military<br />
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Garden. Or InstrvdionsFor All Yovng<br />
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The<br />
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Svch Who Are Disposed To<br />
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Sovldiers, And Learne,<br />
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Have Knowledge Of The Militarie Discipline.<br />
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are set downe the conditions <strong>and</strong> qualities<br />
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which are required<br />
in every severall <strong>of</strong>ficer<br />
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<strong>of</strong> a private company.<br />
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And<br />
Wherein<br />
Observed<br />
<strong>and</strong> set in order according <strong>to</strong> the bpst<br />
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Military pra6tise<br />
by James Achesone Gentleman at Armes, Burges <strong>of</strong> [-Edinbvrgh.<br />
Edinbvrgh. Printed by lohn Wreit<strong>to</strong>un<br />
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Anno Dom,<br />
1629. Cum privilegio Regali<br />
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Collation. Ded. <strong>to</strong> David Alcenside, Provost <strong>of</strong> Edinburgh, subs. James<br />
Achesone, »2.—R.H. :<br />
" The Military Garden."—Sigs. in 4% * (2 ff.), A-E2.<br />
apies. B.M.; Bod.<br />
Contents. Contains similar information <strong>to</strong> Sir Thomas Kellie's " Pallas<br />
Armata ", vv^ritten tw^o years previously i<br />
but the motions in the h<strong>and</strong>ling <strong>of</strong><br />
the musket <strong>and</strong> pike (for a left as well as for a right-h<strong>and</strong>ed man) are rather<br />
more fully described. Achesone here uses the word "string" for "file,**<br />
the first occasion on which I- have seen it employed in this sense.<br />
121. Sixteen-thirty-one. D., I.<br />
Lawes And Ordi-<br />
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nances<br />
<strong>to</strong>uching <strong>military</strong> discipline.<br />
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Set downe <strong>and</strong> established the 13. <strong>of</strong> August. 1590.<br />
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Translated<br />
in<strong>to</strong> <strong>English</strong> by I. D.<br />
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Imprinted at the Haghe by the<br />
widowe <strong>and</strong> heires <strong>of</strong> the deceased Hille-i br<strong>and</strong><br />
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lacobs van<br />
JVouw, Ordinarie Printer <strong>to</strong> the high <strong>and</strong> migh-<br />
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tie t)qrds the<br />
Stats Generall. Anno 163 1. |<br />
Cum Privilegio.<br />
Quar<strong>to</strong>.<br />
Collation. Tp., Ai.—Imprimatur : "Thus<br />
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done <strong>and</strong> decreed jt Arnhem<br />
after sundry conferences had here<strong>up</strong>on with the chiefest Commaunders <strong>of</strong><br />
these vnited Provinces. It being farther appoynted, th^t these orders <strong>and</strong> *<br />
lawes shalbe published both in the Campe, <strong>and</strong> wheresoever els it shalbe<br />
meete <strong>and</strong> requisite, <strong>and</strong> that at every muster the Commissaries shal reade,<br />
<strong>and</strong> propound the same agarne \iic\ un<strong>to</strong> the Companies. The 13. <strong>of</strong> August •<br />
1590. ^y order <strong>of</strong> the Councell <strong>of</strong> State. Chr. Huyghens."—No pag.<br />
Sigs. in 4', A-B.<br />
Copies. B.M.<br />
95<br />
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