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i6o. Sixteen-forty-two. Leslie, Alexander, Earl of Leven.
Generall Lessley's
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Direction and Order For the exercising
of Horse and Foot. Being A most Exa(5t, Com-
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pendeous, and Necessary Direction for all such as are
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studiously devoted to the |
due Exercise of Armes,
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and
principally
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intended for the young sort of the
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Militia.
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Londont\ \
Printed by Richard Badger, for L. Blaikelock.
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1642.
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Quarto. 8 C
Copies. B.M.
Contents. On verso of title-page is a preface of 1 1 lines beginning, " My
zeale for the publike good hath invited me to expose this short but excellent
treatise to the publike view, being without controversy, the best of all
moderne Trades upon this subjeft." Only the instructions for handling
Infantry are given ; each company of which is to be composed of two-thirds
Musketeers and one-third Pikes, ranged in files of eight deep. Fol. 7 verso
concludes with an advertisement to the effect that the intention had been
to include directions for cavalry, but that, defedts having arisen in the
'*copy'* during the publisher's (/.^., the editor's) absence, these had been
withheld.
With a the Peace.
161. Sixteen-forty-two.
Certaine |
Orders |
Meete To Be
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Observed
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Vpon Any
Foraine |
Invasion, |
upon the Sea
For those Shires that lye
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Direction to the Justices of Coastes. |
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London, \
Printed by R. C.Jbr Michael Sparke, Senior, and are
to be sold at the signe of the blue Bible |
in Greene-Arbor,
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1642.
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Quarto. Sigs. A and B.
Copies. B.M.
Contents. Particular stress is laid on the necessity of fixing a place of
assembly to which the troops may resort on the first firing of the beacon
which is to give the alarm of invasion ; while the opposite course of running
to the coast in small bodies is condemned,
162. Sixteen-forty-two.
Militia |
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and New. One
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thousand six hundred forty