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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75685	As you vvere, or the new French exercise of the infanterie ballanced with the old.		1674 (1674)	Wing A3917A; ESTC R223521	29,647	34

nixt them Harquebuses of Croc with longer and shorter Harquebuses for horsemen and foot Soldiers Muskets were not heard of as many thinke till the siege of Regium in Italie 250 years after the birth of powder Bot for my part I beleeve they be not so old because I find no mention of them in all these great Armies of the Emperor Charles the fifth Francis the first of France and Henry the eighth of England in the years 1530 1536 and 1542 nay nor in that brave Armie of Henry the second of France wherwith he marched in Person into Germanie to assist the Dutch Princes against their master the Emperour and that was in the year 1550. or therby And which is more Monluc the famous Mareshall of France in his Commentaries speaks bot of a very few Harquebuses for every French Companie of foot and not one word of a Musket in the years 1330 and 1536 the Crossebow being then much used by the French and the Longbow by the English The Pistoll began to come in fashion in the raigns of James the fourth of Scotland and Henry the eight of England Bot to our purpose FRENCH AUTHOR Exercise of the Pike Take heed to your selves there Pikemen c. Animadversion IN his commands for exerciseing the Pike I find litle or no alteration in most of his words from these used before his time In the way how to obey these words it may be he differ from others bot he has not told it to us I shall advert to some things he hath omitted to tell us bot before I doe it it will not be impertinent to speake somthing of that ancient Weapon the Pike The Pike is so old a Weapon that the severall posturs of it have beene taught many ages a goe we have most of our words of command for it from the Greekes The Romanes made litle or no use of it The Graecians in the days of old did admirable feates with it the Macedonians farre greater and in later times the Switsers have made themselvs formidable by it The Graecian Pike for most part was eighteen foot long The Macedonian one was one and twentie foot in length Our Europaean Pikes are ordinarlie reckond to be eighteene foot long bot in many places they exceed not sixteene One hundreth and fiftie years agoe the Infanterie of our moderne Armies consisted mostlie of these who were armd with long Weapons which the French calld Long-bois in which were comprehended Partisanes Hallberds Two-handed Swords Axes with long handles and especiallie Pikes they who carryed them were stronglie armd for the Defensive and were called the heavie armed The Bowmen Slingers and Darters were called the light armed in Latine Velites Bot Bows Darts and Slings were chac'd away by Harquebuses and when these began to be numerous they who carryed them were reckond to make the fourth part of the Infanterie as at Vienna when Charles the fifth expected Soliman his foot consisted of eightie thousand men wherof twentie thousand were Harquebusiers the other sixtie thousand were all armd with long Weapons of severall kinds Bot after Muskets made a noise in the World they chac'd away Harquebuses and they who carryed them challengd the third part of the foot to belong to them and not contented with that In a short time they would be halfe play makers nor did they stop there for now Universallie Musketeers make two parts of three of the Infanterie and in some places I have seene the Musket usurpe the sole soveraigntie of all Weapons in foot Battaillons banishing the Pike absolutlie not one wherof I could see in many Regiments FRENCH AUTHOR Order your Pike Charge to Horse Draw your Sword Returne your Sword Order your Pike c. Animadversion THat which the Author calls present your Pike The Translator all along renders it Charge your Pike how properlie I can not tell That which he says here Charge to Horse the originall hath it present the Pike to the Cavallerie and it is like the Author intended not then to charge the Horse with Pikes because he immediatlie subjoyns draw your Sword which could not be done when the Pikemen chargd Bot my worke is with the Author not with the Translator Therfor I say This French Gentleman doth not tell us in what posture the Pike sould be presented to the Cavallerie or how the Pikemen sould draw their Swords both which he was obliged to doe If Pikes be presented with both hands how can these who present them draw their Swords Perhaps with their teeth The antient custome was to foot their Pikes and draw their Swords over their left arms Bot whether this Author means this or another way who can Divine since in it as in many things else he is so superciliouslie reservd Practise indeed hath taught that posture of putting the but of the Pike to the right foot holding the shaft of it with the left hand and drawing the Sword with the right to be too weak to endure the Schock of Horse especiallie Seus d'armes and therfor many have thought that a Bodie of Pikes haveing its ranks and files at close order presenting their armes at a steadie posture without drawing Swords is fittest to resist a Cavallerie Bot whether This Gentleman hath brought backe the old custome or invented a new one we know not if he had pleasd to speake out his mind any may to present Pikes and draw Swords at one time wold have got followers as well as other French fashions doe FRENCH AUTHOR Take heed there the whole Battaillon to present your armes Musketeers make readie The Pikes charge at the same time To the right to the right to the right to the right Halfe turne to the right As you were c. Animadversion THe Author haveing taught us the exercise of Musket and Pike doth at full length teach us Faceings Doublings Counter-marches and conversions he wold have taught us better if he had instructed us how and in what manner we sould obey some of his new commands I shall say here in the generall that 64. or 65. years agoe another French Gentleman Louis de Montgomerie Lord of Carbousin wrote of all necessare motions of exercise for Bodies of either Pikes or Muskets or both which was done no doubt by many before he could draw a Sword and by many since he went to another World Bot I shall not offer to wrong this Author with whom I have to doe to think he imagind all the motions and evolutions he speaks of to be necessare it seems to me he thinks not so because when he hath done with his general Exercise he gives us a particular Exercise for the foot which he calls necessare and ordinare in encounters Then what are all those mentiond in the general exercise and not in the particular one if they be not necessare Certainlie he asserts them to be at least fitting and convenient Whether all of them be so or not requires some consideration The various and diverfieing alterations