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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28175	A light to the art of gunnery wherein is laid down the true weight of powder, both for proof and action, of all sorts of great ordnance : also the true ball and allowance for wind, with the most necessary conclusions for the practice of gunnery, either in sea or land-service : likewise the ingredients and making of most necessary fire-works, as also many compositions for the gunner's practice, both at sea and land / by Capt. Thomas Binning ...	Binning, Thomas.	1676 (1676)	Wing B2934A; ESTC R4473	112,096	190

Keepers of the Magazine who will require an exact Account of what is gone or spent and let every Man be content with his Wages It is a true saying and the Word of God clears it Blessed are the Peace-makers for they shall be called the Children of God Mat. 5.9 Wherefore every Man ought with all their Hearts to cry to God for Peace with Truth the which I pray God to send us To any vers'd in Military Affairs is known the great Gain or Loss which may redound either to the Country Army or Fleet by the well or bad management of the Great Ordnance or Train of Artillery for which cause I say it is most necessary to try such Men you chuse to be Gunners ere ye trust either for Land or Sea-Service And if they be qualified with these forenamed Marks then are they fit to act the part of a Man But it is God by whom increase must come Now if there should chance a Man of good Qualifications to be admitted for a Gunner and but meanly expert To them I say If they follow these following fundamental Rules and digested Instructions which I calculated in the year 1648 and 1651 I hope they shall have pleasure and profit As it is without all question or contradiction that there is nothing more Holy more profitable or necessary than a peaceable Condition for Peace is the nearest thing to God in regard where Peace is there is Love Charity Faith and all the Virtues Therefore we ought to pray for Peace that so living in obedience to God our King and Rulers we may prosper in this World and live in Bliss eternally But in regard that the great Princes of the World may observe and seek Peace we ought to pray That as God hath placed them in Power so he may direct them in all their Actions to do nothing contrary to his Glory or the good of their Subjects For what division amongst the Kings and Princes in Christendom hath done to the destruction of Religion effusion of Blood and ruining of their Estates is much in Histories made plain And what hath been done by our unnatural Divisions within these three Kingdoms is yet fresh in memory to the great grief of many good Christians And in regard that some Princes in Christendom are forced to keep War for maintaining of the Christian Faith against Turks Saracens and barbarous Tartars As also that amongst themselves some are either blown up with Pride or Envy who would Reign alone much amusing the minds of Men what they intend to do so that War is as like to be as ever Therefore any well-wishing Person ought to study for the advancement of his Kings Honour and good of his Country Now what may be the Actions done by great Ordnance in time of War may be thought either needless or hurtful Because there is nothing thereby to be taught but to Rase down Fortifications and other Strengths to ruine Or how an Army by cutting off the Souldiers may be shattered and broken and an intrenched Leaguer may be broken up and forced Truly such Men ought to be in esteem if we will have any respect to these dangerous Times wherein we live they ought to be encouraged because no Potentate can be longer in Peace than his Neighbour pleaseth and that scarce any strength is able to resist the fury of terrible Cannon well managed And amongst all Arms in time of War the great Ordnance is first in use whether it be against or in a beleaguered Place and especially when they are rightly managed with discretion they are both helpful and encouraging to their Party And contrary when they are not Men of Judgment and Discretion but slothful and ignorant then they produce dammage to the owner of them For as History declares the great Ordnance hath been the only Winners of the Battel sometimes and great Victory when they have been well managed while the opposite Party gave their Ordnance only the blame of their flight because they were not well managed What a Gunner ought to be to whom the Charge is committed and what he ought to know As it is necessary in all Fortified Places as well in time of Peace as of War to have able practised Gunners who are able to give an account with reason of the things belonging to their Charge and that they be such as fear God more than their Enemy they ought to be honest and not given to change as afore is said The Gunner ought besides his true shooting to be learned in Arithmetick and Geometry which will cause him give advice where a Strength may be most conveniently battered and what Ordnance is most fitting to accomplish the same Also he ought to give Directions to the Engineer what form of Batteries is most convenient at such and such places Likewise that by his Art he give directions that a Storm be made where his Party may have the least harm by his playing with Ordinance upon the places where danger is to be feared likewise if in a Beleaguered Place the Gunner is to defend the same against opposition of the Enemy and to order so as by the assistance of the Ordnance and by what other means he can to oppose and destroy the Enemy for defence of the Place But before all things and before the Army approach to the Place to which the Prince General or other Officer who commands in chief do intend to beleaguer or take It is necessary that the experienced Gunner be one to go before and view the Place with the Grounds thereby the which to do is best in the breaking of the day in the morning to know if the Walls be strong or weak and how and by what means they may be brought down as likewise to find if that Fort or Garison be so Fortified as to annoy the Ground or what part thereof is most secure for the Army to lay down Leaguer and what Ground is best to annoy the Enemy most in the Garison and also what place of the Walls thereof is best to Batter and Storm and which way most secure to bring the Scaling Ladders to set up and to know if there be any Mount Steeple or high Building within that is Fortified to over-look the Leaguer for by such means great harm may occur or near the Leaguer where the Enemy may overlook and relieve the Besieged and so cause the Leaguer to rise except the Ordnance in the Leaguer be capable presently to disorder and deface the same that after the Leaguer is intrenched it may be defended by Ordnance c. Then he must know if the Ground be diggable and on what side of the Leaguer the Proviant may be best and most securely brought in and what fresh Water is there-about for their relief within command of the Leaguer-place So when it is known where on what end of the place or side the Great Ordinance must be placed and lie from or in the Leaguer then must the Batteries be