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

y Reynolde Wolfe, at the sygne of y* Brasen serpent. Anno. 1544. Cum
privilegio ad imprimendum solum."— 24 and 25 11. to p.—Sigs. in 4% A-D.
—Text begins on Aij.
Copies. B.M.
Contents. Grenville's note to this copy runs :
" This account of the
Prote£lor Somerset's expedition into Scotland while he was still Erie of Hertforde
is perhaps the rarest of the Scotch historical pieces, and was sold at the
Roxburgh Sale for 30 guineas ; since that time I have not seen another copy."
The book was addressed to Lord Russel, Lord Privy Seal, by a friend of his,
The artillery used by
serving with the King's army during the expedition.
the English was drawn by men. In the first engagement it ^killed only two
of the enemy, whose ordnance, however, was still more inefFecftive, merely
wounding two of the English. Archers and harquebussiers were employed
in conjundlion, and did good service, the former shooting down the Scotch
gunners before they could fire off their guns once. The work is not equal
in interest to Patten's. Reprinted in Arber's " English Garner," vol. i., pp,
113-H9} also with No. 10, Edinburgh, 1798, 4°,
8. Fifteen-forty-four.
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ordynances for |
the warre,
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M.D.XLIIII.
Londini.
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Anno,
Black letter.
Quarto.
Collation. Tp., Ai, enclosed in woodcut, signed T. B.—Col. :
" Imprinted
at London in Fletestrete by Thomas Barthelet printer to the kinges highnes,
the .XX. day of June, the yere of our Lorde. m.d.xliiii.
Cum Privilegio Ad
Imprimendum Solum."—No pag.—Sigs. A (4 fF.) and B (6 fF.).
— 36 11. to p.
Contents. These orders, drawn up shortly before the invasion of France
by Henry VIII. in 15 13, were issued for the governance of the English army
during that expedition, and, according to Collier, were first printed in the same
year by Pynson. The preamble is on verso of title-page j there are 53
" That every man of the King's army
clauses, one of them being as follows :
bear a cross of St. George, sufficient and large, upon pain of imprisonment
and punishment"; in the absence of uniforms, a necessary regulation,
saunte for theyr
9. Fifteen-forty-five. Ascham, Roger.
Toxophilus, The schole of shootinge |
conteyned in two
bookes.
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To all Gentlemen and yomen of Englande,
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plea-
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and profitable for theyr
pastyme to rede,
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use to folow, both in war
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and peace.
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