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

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Collation. Tp., *i.—Ded. to Alderman Tho. Soame, President of the
Artillery Garden, «2-4.—" Imprimatur Tho. Wykes Aug. 28. 1639.", F4
£)iaas. Sigs. in 4% *, A-F. To this copy has been added an engraved
portrait of Major-Gen. Lambert, printed in France.
Copies. B.M.
Another Edition.
Mars His Triumph.
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Exercise Performed the xviii. of 0(ftober, 1638.
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in Merchant-Taylors
Hall,
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Garden, London.
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Quarto.
Collation.
Copies.
Sixteen-forty-five.
Or, The Description
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Londoriy
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Gentlemen of the Artillery
Printed
by John Dawson. 1645.
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Tp., aa.—Ded., aa2.—Diags.—Sigs. in 4% aa-dd2.
B.M.
Another Edition. Sixteen-sixty-one.
Mars His Triumph : Or, The Description Of An
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Exercise Performed the XVIII. of Oftober, 1638. in Mer-
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chant-Taylors Hall,
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Garden, London. London:
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Gentlemen of the Artillery
Printed by Gartrude Dawson,
1661.
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Quarto.
Collation.
This ed., which was sent out bound up with the 6th ed. of the
"Militarie Discipline" [see No. 133], closely resembles that of 1645; but
in most cases the spelling has been corrected; e.g., P'4}1' !> "doore" becomes
"door"; and "halfe", wherever it occurs, "half".
Copies. B.M.
Contents. The copies printed were sufficient in number to supply each
member of the author's company with one.^
Five months before this, that is, in May, the Yarmouth Artillery had
given a military display of a like kind, a description of which had been
written and published by John Roberts (v. No. 141), from whom, perhaps,
BarrifFe borrowed the idea of this little work. Eighty men took part in the
* The strength of a company, originally 300, was fixed by an Order in Council
of July, i6i2,at 250. But little heed was paid to the regulation, for in 1641 we find
the Artillery Garden making application for larger exercising grounds on the plea of
the great increase to their numbers (Highmore's " Hist. Hon. Art. Comp."), so that
in this year (1638) they had possibly reverted to their ancient strength.
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