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R.H. "
: Castrametation or The Encamping of an Army."— Pt. II. :
Tp., H3.—Ded. to Philip Skippon, H4.—Verses, Ii.—R.H.: "The Ord=r
of Military Watches."—Continuous pag.—Sigs. in 4*, A-L2. Pt. II. was
also issued separately.
In the B.M. copy, a duplicate of the Ded. to Skippon
has been inserted, from same set-up, but with new heading. The catchword
to sig. I2 comes on H42 instead of on Ii.
Copies. B.M. ; Bod. (2nd pt.).
Contents. About this time there are indications of a change for the better
in English military literature ; writers, instead of compiling works embracing
the whole range of the art, are devoting themselves each to one, or, at
most, two, branches of the subject. Pt. I. is the first English treatise exclusively
on castrametation. Cruso borrows from Leo's " Taftics ", cap. 2,
Vegetius' "De re militari", and the chapter on Castrametation in Du Praissac's
" Discourses." There is no earlier account of " miUtary watches
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dealing so fully with the subject as does Pt. II.
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156. Sixteen-forty-two. Lupton, Donald.
A Warre-like Treatise Of The Pike.
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Some Experimental!
Re- solves, for lessening the num- her, and
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disabling the use of the Pike in Warre. With the praise of
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the Musquet and Halfe-Pike. As also the Testimony of
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Brancatio, concerning the disability of the Pike. Penn'd
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for the generall good of our Nation, by a well wisher to the
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com- pleat Musquetier. [Two lines of quotation from
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Horace.] London:
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Printed by RichardHodgkinsonne |
in Little-
Britaine,
Duodecimo.
1642.
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Collation. Tp., A3.—Ded. to Robert, Earl of Essex, A4-6, subs.
"Donald Lupton "i another, A7-10.—Cts., A11-12.—No R.H.—Sigs. in
I2%A-H6.
Copies. B.M.
Contents. The combination of Musket and Half-Pike—a sort of bayonet
—was devised by BarrifFe and John [Edward ] Davies [see Nos. 92 and 133].
Turner devotes over four pages in his *' Pallas Armata " to refuting Lupton 's
arguments against the pike.
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