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A08347	The gunner shevving the vvhole practise of artillerie: vvith all the appurtenances therevnto belonging. Together with the making of extra-ordinary artificiall fireworkes, as well for pleasure and triumphes, as for warre and seruice. VVritten by Robert Norton, one of his Maiesties gunners and enginiers.	Norton, Robert, d. 1635.; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, engraver.	1628 (1628)	STC 18673; ESTC S115254	149,353	214

although it be now growne some what out of warlike vse since the inuention of small gunnes yet bowes and arrowes being both ancient and generall warlike instruments and were of two sorts viz. the Long-bow and the Crosse-bow The Long-bow is so wel known that it needeth no description which doubtlesse of the two it was first inuented and practised in the Warres as being the more simple Engine of the twaine whose antiquity is surely very great and seemeth to haue beene before Noahs Flood For Almighty God promising to Noah and his sonnes that hee would no more destroy all flesh with the waters of a flood he giueth the Rainebow for a sure token thereof which hee there called his Bowe distinguishing the same from mens bowes as things then familiarly knowne to Noah and his sonnes And as it is ancient so it is also of great force by reason that all things therein almost doe worke secundum naturam For first the Naturall and proper worke of the Chords sinewes and ligaments of Mans arme are to draw and pull vnto it selfe rather then to relate themselues to thrust off Secondly the matter whereof the Bow is made be it of wood or steele by nature stiffe and starke being bent with the string and drawne compasse with the arme whilst it flyeth out to the straightnes which it naturally hath and so fulfilleth his naturall worke Thirdly the Arrow artificially made and proportioned to the strength of the Bow easily hangeth in the ayre and swiftly and gently slideth through the same The generall vse of it in all warlike nations may appeare That the bow was in speciall vse among the Hebrewes Mach. 9.11 Tit. Liu. lib. 7. Many places of Scripture verifie and the place of their seruice was in the Front of the battle and amongst the Philistims for Saul was sore wounded with the shooters of the Philistims Chron 25.23.24 Esay 21.27 And amongst the Egyptiās king Iosias was hurt with the shooters of Phare Necho king of Aegypt amongst the Assyrians Achas was slain with one of their arrowes amōgst the Citizens of Rabbah the Amonites their shooters shot from their walls against the army of Ioab amongst the men of Cedar Arabians and Ismaelites Ierem. 46.9 whose strong archers God threatneth should be fewer Amongst the Lidians whom God calleth forthwith their Bowes against the disobedient children of Iuda amongst the Assyrians Iudeth 2.15 Holophernes hauing in his army 12000 archers on horsebacke And to bee short if wee shall reade the ancient Histories of the Greekes and Romanes we shall finde the bow and arrowes euery where so vsuall a weapon that most nations haue continually vsed them amongst whom our English Nation hath beene equall to the best as all Christendome can beare vs witnesse in many battles especially that which our Nation did for Ferdinand king of Castille vnder the leading of the Earle of Bedford who with 10000 English bow-men armed besides their bowes and arrowes with battell-axes that hang at their backes whereby he obtained so great a victory that he his successors haue euer since carried the sheafes of arrowes and the long-bow in their shield and also on their coyned halfe Royalls The second sort of Bowes is the Crosse-bow which Titus Liuius calleth Scorpionius modicum partly by reason it hath the likenesse of that beast when the arrow is placed therein and partly by reason of the like manner of hurting watching all occasions when and where to strike surest CHAP. II. Wherein is discoursed who were the Inuentors of Gunnes and Gunne-powder HAuing vndertaken in the former booke called the Art of Great Artillerie to shew by Definitions Theoremes and certaine Questions the Speculatiue part of the Art of a Canonier I haue now also thought fit in the second part by the rule of reason to demonstrate the Practicke part thereof and to describe all sorts of Ordnance aswell such as are and haue beene vsed in forreigne Nations as those that are founded in England and both the ancient and the moderne of both wherefore I hold it needfull for compiling of the whole worke as compleate as I can to declare by whom and how this so diuellish an inuention was first brought to light Vffano reporteth that the inuention and vse aswell of Ordnance as of Gunne-powder was in the 85 yeere of our Lord made knowne and practized in the great and ingenious Kingdome of China and that in the Maratyne Prouinces thereof there yet remaine certaine Pceces of Ordnance both of Iron and Brasse with the memory of their yeares of Foundings ingraued vpon them and the Armes of King Vitey who he saith was their inuentour And it well appeareth also in ancient and credible Historyes that the sayd King Vitey was a great Enchanter and Nigromancer who one time beeing vexed with cruell warres by the Tartarians coniured an euill spirit that shewed him the vse and making of Gunnes and Powder the which hee put in Warlike practise in the Realme of Pegn and in the conquest of the East-Indies and thereby quieted the Tartars The same being confirmed by certaine Portingales that haue trauelled and Nauigated those quarters and also affirmed by a letter sent from Captaine Artred written to the King of Spaine wherein recounting very diligently all the particulars of Chyna sayd that they long since vsed there both Ordnance and Powder and affirming forther that there hee found ancient ill-shapen Peeces and that those of later Foundings are of farre better fashion and mettall then their ancient were Some also imagine that Powder and Ordnance were inuented by the famous Mathematitian Archimedes who made vse of them at the siege of Syracusa in Cicillia and they ground that supposition vpon Vitrunius who reporteth that one of his engins with a terrible noyse did shoote foorth great Bullets of stone which by reason of that report could neither bee supposed the Catapulta Balista Scorpion nor any other of his knowne engins Others say that Ordnance and Powder were vsed in the time of Alexander the Great who hauing a purpose to besiege a City neere the riuer Ganges was diswaded from it by some of his good friends that told him the Citizens thereof were so much fauoured of Inpiter that he vsually sent Lightning and Thunder from their walles that destroyed whosoeuer offered to assault that City And indeede if we shall well consider the nature and effect of Powder and Ordnance we shall finde them to come so neere vnto natutall thunder and lightning that I thinke we may well say that as Nature hath long time had her Thunder and Lightning so Art hath now hers Dionisius Halic in his first booke of Antiquities reporteth that Alladius the 12. King of the Latins after Aeneas had inuented a meanes by art to counterfeit Thunder and Lightning of purpose to make his Subiects beleeue him to be a God yet in the practising thereof he burned his house and himselfe together each of which may be probably coniectured to be done

THE GVNNER SHEVVING THE VVHOLE PRACTISE OF ARTILLERIE With all the Appurtenances therevnto belonging Together with the making of Extraordinary Artificiall Fireworkes as well for Pleasure and Triumphes as for Warre and Seruice VVritten by ROBERT NORTON one of his Maiesties Gunners and Enginiers LONDON Printed by A. M. for HVMPHREY ROBINSON and are to be sold at the three Pidgeons in Paules-Churchyard 1628. TO THE EMPERIALL MAIESTIE OF GREAT BRITTAINE FRANCE AND IRELAND KING CHARLES ALmighty GOD hauing made your Maiesty Soueraigne ouer many strong Nations naturally Martiall and Artificially exercised in Armes Yet if they want Discipline though many they are but few and though else strong yet therefore weake Your mighty Kingdomes also being strongly situated by Nature Intrenched about with a broade Dike the Seas Pallisadoed with Rockes and Sands Sentinelled with strange setting Tydes of Ebbes and Floods Defended by frequent Stormes and Tempests highly Inritched with Fertillity of Nature Furnished plentiously with all manner of Matterialls fitting the felicity of Mans life vpon Earth both for time of Peace and Warre So that nothing can seeme to bee more wished for if Industery bee vsed but especially if Correspondency bee found in a good and due temper betweene the Head and the Members as perfect Obedience and Seruice from the Members to the Head and entire loue and care from the Head to the Members for their good and safety Gunnes your Maiesty hath but want Gunners because they want Respect and Encouragement let Occasions be ruled with Reason VVarrs managed with Discipline Iudgement and Pollicie Let stubborne Offendors be punished Deseruing Men preferred Eminent Places not granted for Fauour to insufficient Men or Strangers hauing honest Subiects farre more able to performe the Seruice So we shall all make Holiday to serue our God obey our King and enioy Gods blessings bestowed vpon vs euery Man Eating his Grapes vnder his owne Vine without feare of forraigne Enemies To conclude then nothing can be wanting Men Money Meanes nor Prosperity when the God of Order hath setled such a congruity Now that your Maiesty may the better be prouided hereafter of vnderstanding Gunners to manage your Artillery the powerfull Regent of moderne VVarre I haue endeuored in this Practice of Artillery to supply their wants the best I can not doubting but in short time it may worke good effect therein If your Maiesty will be gratiously pleased to countenance these few Lines vnder your Royall Patronage My wrongs and discouragements hath hitherto hindred the publication hereof VVhich if your Maiestie would be pleased to referre to be examined and relieued accordingly It will then appeare I had cause to speake And I should be againe encouraged for greater and further Seruices hereafter So most humbly crauing pardon for my boldnesse prostrating my selfe at your Sacred Feete as by Oath and Duty bound will euer remaine Your most Faithfull and Loyall Subiect and Seruant ROBERT NORTON To Mr. Robert Norton and his Practise of Artillery VVHen first I knew the difference of Time and seuerall Climates of the Worlds round Globe I then thought Artists fittest Men to clime to Honor and to weare the Golden Roabe But now these Times doe differ from that Time Strangers respected are By Courtiers crime Then when I knew the Seas my whole delight was how to trimme a Shippe prepar'd for Warre But all was vaine till Gunners Skill and Might with practiz'd Forces all excells so farre Let Sea-men Land-men all Men truly know That Gunners Art 's of Substance not of Show The Land-man he most boldly makes Approach with Horse and Foote with Sword and Shield and Speare But all were vayne he neuer could encroach if Gunnes and Gunners should be wanting there Therefore such Artists sure t' were best to cherish And expert Gunnered Engeneers to nourish For proofe whereof let euery Artist view why such Men should not to preferment mount Peruse this Booke its Lynes and Fgures true so may he finde the difference of Account Twixt th' English and the Dutch Norton and Borre Then giue our owne their due without demor Moratur in lege But Norton I haue been something to bold to Paraphrase vpon thy Worth and Quality Because I want sufficient to vnfold them and th'Ingenious Workes reality Let this suffice thy praise will shew it selfe It 's worth the Golden-Fleece the Indian Pelfe Captaine Iohn Butler A Due to the Author his Worke and Worth SInce mongst all Nations Warre it selfe doth showe It behooues Man Warres Weapons for to know Who here may learne the Gunners ayming Arts Which thy free industry to all imparts The fittest subiect now it is by farre At these times when such Rumors are of Warre And filles the Eares and Courages awake Goe on then and to Thee this glory take That he that reades these things which thou dost write May know a Gunners part though he nere fight And know Warres chiefest Engines vse and strength In Bore Cilinder Axis and in Length In Touch-hole Carriage Wadd in Shot and Charge Of Fire-workes in briefe thou speakst at large French Spanish Dutch Italian vaile your Cappes To Nortons skill in Mars his Thunder-claps Iohn Rudstone a Louer of the Artes Mathematicall Theorick and Practick To his good Friend Master Robert Norton on his Practise of Artillery I Told you Friend before your Booke I 'de write But not Idolatrize with Poetick spright Doing our loues much wrong in little right The Times necessity and each Studious minde Will make it prayse it selfe which you shall finde By'ts oft impression th' Art being here refinde Yet iustly I confesse I haue been showne Bookes that sell well yet not for what 's their owne But for Commendators before them knowne And this integrity Commands me say That to the Trueth thou shewst the rightest way For Young Artists and here the Old may stay For here th' are satissied with small dispence Of Purse or Braines of Skill the quintessence Drawne from the Antick Artists excellence I know rich Iewells may themselues commend Which be such Bookes that for the publique end With Iudgement written are So thine good Friend Richard Robinson In the due Honor of the Author Master Robert Norton and his Worke. PErfection if 't hath euer been attayned In Gunners Art this Author hath it gayned By Study and Experiences and he The Fruite of all his Paynes hath offered Thee A Present well befitting this our Age When all the World is but a Martiall Stage Let sweeter Studies lull a sleepe and please Men who presume security but these Thy Labors practizd shall more safely guard Those that foresee the Danger th' other bar'd This benefite Wee Soldiers doe imbrace This Rare and vsefull Worke and o're the face Of all the World let thy Fames Echo sound More then that roaring Engin and redound To th' Honor of our Nation that thy Paynes Transcends all former and their glory staines Captaine John Smith HVNGARIENSIS A Table of the Contents DEfinitions Page 1 Demands Page 2