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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01673	The exercise of armes for caliures, muskettes, and pikes after the ordre of his Excellence. Maurits Prince of Orange Counte of Nassau etc. Gouernour and Captaine generall. ouer Geldreland. Holland, Zeeland, Vtrecht. Overyssel. etc. Sett forthe in figures. by Iacob de Gheyn. With written instructions. for the service of all captaines and comaundours. For to shewe hereout the better vnto their jong or vntrayned souldiers the playne and perfett maner to handle these armes.; Wapen-handelinghe van roers, musquetten, en spiessen. English	Gheyn, Jacob de, 1565-1629.	1608 (1608)	STC 11810; ESTC S122015	30,984	270

THE EXERCISE OF ARMES FOR GALIVRES MVSKETTES AND PIKES After the ordre of his Excellence Maurits Prince of Orange Counte of Nassau etc. Gouernour and Captaine generall ouer Geldreland Holland Zeeland Vtrecht Overyssel etc. Sett forthe in figures by Iacob de Gheyn With written Instructions for the service of all Captaines and Comaundours For to shewe hereout the better vnto their jong or vntrayned Souldiers the playne and perfett maner to handle these Armes Printed at the Hage With Priviledge of the Emperours Matie the King of Fraunce and the Noble and mightye Estates General of the vnited Provinces TO THE PRINCE NOr your highnes nor any man to vvhose vevv this present booke shall come shall need to finde it strange either vvhy it hath borrovved an English habitt or shrovvded it selfe vnder so great a protection since on the one side it represents vnto You that manner of exercise of Armes vvhich hath for many yeares bene practised in this schoole of vvarre the Vnited Provinces and that by a Captayne vvhose vvorth I thinke not any part of the vvorld is ignorant of in vvhich vvarre the valure of the English and Schottish nations novv Brittaynes hath bene of that speciall marke and note that for readye vse of theyr Armes prouident care of the Commaunders and commendable obedience of the Souldier tovvards his chiefe it can not be denyed but that the Provinces haue received verye acceptable services at theyr handes On the other side to vvhom could I in iudgement more fitly and as I may saye iustly addresse the proprietye of a vvorke of this vvorthe and nature then to a Prince descended from so many povverfull and victorious Kinges vvho euen by destyny and iudgement of all the vvorld is not onely the heyre of theyr Fortunes but an inheritour of theyr vertues also then to a Prince the sonne of the most puissant Kinge of all his predecessours vvho though he blesseth his Realmes vvith the svveetenesse of peace yet doubtelesse he placeth the securitie of that content in the due and lavvfull exercise of Armes Lastely to vvhom rather I saye should I dedicate this vvorke then to a Prince that through the light of his ovvne proper example doth so much beautifye and ennoble the practise of Armes vvho euen in the fore-springe of his yeares and amidst so many other princely entertaynements fitt for his youth and state doth yet give such a lustre to this of Armes by the continuall familiaritye he hath vvith them in his often practise that I thinke I may saye and saye truely that the most true and perfect knovvledge of them is rather to be found vvith your Highnes then brought to You. Therefore as all those excellent professours of excellent sciences vvhere in yet your Highnes excells them all are every one in speciall duety bound to giue the best testymonye they can of theyr thankefulnesse both in regard of the fauour vvhich some receive in being nere You and also of the honour vvhich You doe to all theyr professions in not disdayninge to participate vvith theyr industries So haue I in all humble and due respect thought it fitt to tender You this acknovvledgement of myne hopinge that your Highnes shall receive no small contentement by addinge the longe experience of the Nether-lands practise to Your ovvne knovvledge of ancient Histories and those vvise and deep-grounded instructions of that great Monarche the Kinge Your Father Your Highnes his Most humble servant in all duetye at command Iacob de Gheyn TO THOSE THAT LOVE THE EXERCISE OF ARMES WISSHETH IACOB DE GHEYN HEALTH and prosperitie IT is out of all doubt that neither the quietnesse of a common wealthe without armes nor the armes without convenient or due exercise can stand or be maintained VVhich hath not onely bene well considered by the old sages or wise that haue vndertaken to give any examples of lawe but is approoued by the effectuall experience of the most famous Townes and People that haue preserved their Estate chieflye by those meanes And examining the further course of the whole VVorld we shall find that the soueraigne powre hath alwayes bene by those which here in did most surpasse theyr neighbours The Grecians in the time thye haue bene in theyr most shyning glorie haue much embraced this point and there in by theyr witt not little proffited Yet the Romains haue farre surpassed here in aswell those as all others and ever exercised theyr youth at all kinde of armes by those whom they called Campi-doctores or Mastres of the field VVhich maner is playnelye showed vnto vs in the writinges that are there of come to our handes the same reason standeth fast for euer and with all nations But in regard that not onely the vse but euen the armes them selues are much changed chiefly sithence the findinge out of Gun pouder it can not be denied but that wee can reape small or no benefite by the old rehearsals without wee haue neewe instructions His Princely Ex ce there fore the Earle Maurice of Nassau c. to whose care by the Lords Estates generall of the vnited Provinces is left the charge of defending so worthie countries and the conducting of a warre which is taken for a schoole or patterne to the whole VVorld Like as he throughout the whole militarie order before his time much decayed hath restored and partelye brought to the examples of the old partely by his owne inventions amended and adorned so hath he taken great regard to the exercise of Armes as one of the principall partes of the militarie ordre where out are risen such comodites as vnto euery man is knowne not onely in these Countries but also in the vttermost partes of the worlde This hath bene the chiefe cause that hath mooved me to giue out the order which his Princely Ex ce in the vsing of the Calivres Muskets and Pikes doth obserue as the perfectest and best patterne aswell to pleasure those whose duety it is to followe the order of his directions as to accomodate any other who shall seeke to draw benefytt to hymself by so necessary exercise and practise of armes Having to that purpose drawne all the postures that come in the holding or vsing of the armes by order and the same described with his reasons and wordes of comand A worke without question very fitt for novices and yongeso uldiers to whom it belongeth to exercise themselues with great diligence here in verye necessarye also to all Captaynes and Comandors the better to looke to the exercising of souldiers and lastly verie proffitable to all Princes and People beit in tyme of warre the better to defend themselues and offend theyr ennemyes or be it in time of peace with the more facilitye by this kinde of exercising to draw a better assurance to themselues and become the more dread full and redoubted to others Seening then our meaning goeth no further then to instruct the vntrained souldiers and to reinforce the minde of the expert by the sight and