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A14722	Anima'dversions of vvarre; or, A militarie magazine of the truest rules, and ablest instructions, for the managing of warre Composed, of the most refined discipline, and choice experiments that these late Netherlandish, and Swedish warres have produced. With divers new inventions, both of fortifications and stratagems. As also sundry collections taken out of the most approved authors, ancient and moderne, either in Greeke. Latine. Italian. French. Spanish. Dutch, or English. In two bookes. By Robert Ward, Gentleman and commander.	Ward, Robert, fl. 1639.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1639 (1639)	STC 25025; ESTC S118037	599,688	501

this Receit then strongly bound with pack-thread and coted with moulten pitch making therein but one vent of an inch deep wherein must be put fine powder to prime it bruised very small this being fired with a match after it hath burnt awhile ding it into any water it will rise and burne furiously upon the top this is very proper to set fire upon the Enemies floates or Galleries that are built upon the water there shall need no Figure to demonstrate this CHAP. CCXLVIII Of certaine earthen Bottels filled with a kinde of mixture to be fired which are thrown amongst the Enemie THere are certaine Earthen Bottels to be made of a round fashion being not halfe burnt are best for this use they are invented to disorder the Enemies Rankes or to astonish them being whirld out of the Souldiers hands amongst the Enemies will soone make them give ground the device is this having got as many of these Bottels as shall be thought requisite these must bee filled halfe full of Serpentine powder or somewhat more there is to be mixt with it a quantity of Hogges grease Oyle of Stone Brimstone Saltpeeter twice refined Aqua vitae Pitch these being stirred together over a soft fire in some earthen vessell this composition being put into the Bottell with fine powder bruised to cause it to fire suddainly the Bottell is to have a Cord to throw it by this hath wrought strange effects Also there is a kinde of Composition which is besmeared about Ropes ends and Hoopes which are to be throwne from a Wall upon the Enemy which will burne and disorder them wonderfully especially at the scaling of a Wall The Composition is this take Sulphre in meale sixe parts of Rozin in meale three parts these being melted in a Pan over a slow fire then taking Stone-pitch one part hard waxe one part of Towe halfe a quarter part of Aqua vitae halfe a quarter part of Camphire ⅛ parts these being also melted together there must bee stirred into it Saltpeeter-meale two parts and when it is taken off the fire there must be foure parts of bruised powder mixt with it these being oynted upon Hoopes and Ropes and set on fire wheresoever they light they cannot be quenched but will burne the Enemy to death View the Figures following CHAP. CCXLIX How a frame of Musquets are to be made and ord●red for the defence of a Breach or for the flanking of a Battalia of Pikes THe use of this frame of Musquets is very excellent both in the defence of Breaches Bridges Ports or to be plac'd before the Divisions of Pikes or flanking the Pikes in Battell whereby the Enemie will be wonderfully shaken and by the helpe of a few men which are to remove them too and fro and to give fire to the traines strange exploits may be performed The manner of it is thus A Frame is made of Boordes or Planke three Stories high one story halfe a foot above the other and a foot or more behinde one the other the lowermost tyre is to lye about three foot from the ground the next halfe a foot above that and so the third there are certain quilles or small spouts of Brasse to goe from one touch-hole to the other so that the traine being fired they shall one discharge after another beginning first with the uppermost tyre as the Enemy enters the Breach then the second and the lowermost last there is also a broad plate which shall be plac'd over the Breeches of the Musquets that no sparkles may fall downe into the Pans of the second nor the lowermost tyre each tyre is to hold twelve Musquets a breast one being plac'd a foot distance from the other there are certaine Ringles on each side to remove it by There is one in Germany that hath onely twelve Musquets which may be discharged eight and forty times according to the French new invention for Pistols This was practised at Ostend when Duke Albert made his potent assault by which he was wonderfully repuls'd View the Figure CHAP. CCL An Instrument called a Flaile used in the defending of a Breach or scaling of a Wall or when the Enemy is at handy blowes THis instrument is used in the Warres to defend breaches or when the Enemy is entered the streets of a Towne and are at close fight then these are the onely weapons for dispatch there being no defence for it it is made much after the fashion of a Flayle onely the Swingill is short and very thicke having divers Iron Pikes in it upon all parts of it that which way soever it falles it destroyes divers souldiers are appointed to attend the Enemies assaulting the Breach some standing at one end of the Breach the residue at the other and when the Enemy is come up at push of Pike so close that the Pikemen can make no use of their Pikes then these Flayles makes way through their Head-peeces and Armour View the Figure CHAP. CCLI The use of the Turne-pike and how it is framed and of the excellent defence it makes both against Horse and Foote upon all straights and passages THis Instrument is of great use to bee cast into straites breaches passages or high-wayes for which way soever it is rowled there bee sharpe pikes towards the Enemy to hinder his approches the manner of framing of it is after this manner First there is a round Beame of light wood as Firre or Sallow about twelve Inches in circumference and ten or twelve foot long at every halfe-footes length or under there must bee holes bored thorow every way a-crosse then there must bee Staves fitted for those holes of good seasoned Ash about a yard and a halfe long somewhat tapering towards each end the ends of these Staves must bee armed with Iron Pikes cheeked downe a good way that they may not bee hackt off with their Swords then being droven into the foresaid holes just halfe way of the Staffe it will bee defensive which way soever it bee turned the beame is to be so made that one may be fastned to the other by hookes at each end so that if need bee halfe a score of them may bee coupled together or otherwise as the breach or passage is in breadth the Musque●iers may shoot over them and the Pikes may defend them so that the Enemy shall not have the advantage to pull them asunder and so long as they lye neither Horse nor Foot can passe for them when they are to be transported by waggon then the Staves are to be knockt out that they may lye in closer roome View the Figure following CHAP. CCLII The use of the Pallizadoes to prevent both Horse and Foote from any sudden assault and how they are framed HIs Excellency the Prince of Orange had alwayes these Instruments carryed in his Army either by Water or by Land for wheresoever hee did incampe his Army for any time especially if the Enemy were quartered neere he alwayes gave directions to

have these Pallizadoes pitcht into the ground round the quarters and upon all Passages and Bridges the Turne-Pikes were placed with a sufficient Guard to defend them The manner of framing them is after this fashion they take Furre-poles about twelve Inches in Circumference and foure foote and and a halfe and some five foot long and upwards these are sharpe at the nether end with a peece of Iron that they may enter the Gravell or Stones and some are not within a handfull of the upper end there is two Iron Pikes of five or sixe inches long driven in side-wayes one crossing the other then in the middest betwixt both is the third Pike placed right-forwards these being driven into the earth about a foote and a halfe and in distance a foote or thereabouts asunder the Pikes will so answer one to the other that nothing can passe but must receive hurt when they intend to raise a Parapet of earth then as they finish the worke they pull up the Pallizados There is another kind of Palizado made of peeces of Oake-heart sharpt at one end the other end is layed into the earth three quarters of a yard deepe neere the top of a Breast-worke either of Skonce or Redout View the Figure of the former Palizado CHAP. CCLIII The use of the Calthrop and of the Spiked Planke to anoy both Horse and Foote THe Calthrop is an Instrument very offensive to the Enemies Horse and by the use of them a few Souldiers may make an able resistance either in the streetes of a Towne or upon any passage or in a Pitcht Battell the lightnesse of it being such that every Souldier may carry two or three of them at his Girdle and as they advance towards the Enemy throwing them downe they will indanger any thing that shall tread upon them They are framed in this wise first they take a tough peece of Sallow and making it round about the bignesse of an Apple there is Iron pikes driven thorow which points every way so that which way soever it falls a pike will be upwards to runne into the feet either of Horse or Man there is another fashion made of a peece of Bord as broad as a Trencher which is driven full of nayles and lyned with another thin Bord to keepe the Nayles from slipping backe these are very good to bee throwne upon passages in the night-time when a feare of the Enemies approch is at hand Also at the Siege of Ost-End the Arch-Duke invented a device to defend himselfe against sudden Sallyes out of the Towne wherefore hee cansed to bee layed at the neerest Retrenchments long Plankes driven full of long sharpe spikes the sharpe points lying upwards to runne into their feet that should assayle him this is good to lay crosse streetes in a Towne in the night-time when an Enemy hath entred the Ports View the Figures following CHAP. CCLIV The use of the Bome or Baricado to crosse a passage or high-way to prevent the Enemies Horse in their speedy approches THis kinde of Instrument is used very frequently about all the frontier Townes in the Netherlands it is to bee plac'd upon some straight passage in the Road or high-way a flight-shot from each Port or neerer to prevent the Enemies sudden assault with his Horse-troopes the forme and fashion is after this manner The Beame which crosseth the way is of Oake-hart and a foot square of Timber at the least then upon one side of the way is pitch'd downe a strong able Post the top of it being fitted to enter into a hole of the Beame about the third part of it from the fore end then there comes divers Braces downe from the Beame which are mortic'd into a circular piece of Timber framed purposely to winde about the middest of the standing Post the Post being there made with a Regall these Braces stayes up the Beame from sinking downe at the fore end and it also hinders the raising of it up from the standing Post upon the other side of the way is another able Post for the end of the Beame to shut against the said end of the Beame hath a very strong Spring-locke which at the first pulling too locks into the Post there is alwayes a Sentinell to garde at this Bome to open and shut it to Passengers if there bee any voyd place betwixt the Postes and the hedges it must bee strongly railed the Figure followes which happily may better informe you CHAP. CCLV. Of a second kinde of Bome or Baricado to lay over Rivers to prevent the comming up of Boates whereby the Enemy may surprize a Towne THis second kinde of Bome was invented by the Netherlanders to prevent the Enemies designes who had many times deceived them by rowing up their boates the Rivers and unexpectedly have entred their Townes the manner of framing it is after this fashion In the narrowest place of the River or Haven they spile both the sides next the bankes with long able spiles mortissing the top of them into an over-way or beame of sound Timber onely in the middest of the streame they leave a passage for such vessels or boates to passe as are requisite then they take a peece of Timber or some Mast of a Ship which being fitted in due length for the place the one end of this Bome hath a Staple of strong Iron which is joyned by a Ringle to a second Staple that is droven into the inmost Spile likewise upon the Spile of the other side is a strong Staple whereunto the fore-nd of the Bome is to bee fastened either by a Mortice plated with Iron or some Chaine fastened unto it and this is strongly lockt upon the top of this Bome goes a thick barre of Iron from end to end which hath large strong pikes rivited into it three or foure inches one from the other Lastly the iron plate or Barre is rivited to the Bome so that it cannot possibly be cut in sunder neyther can they have their Boates over it by reason of the Pikes this they may open and shut at pleasure Many times they use iron chaines but they are more chargeable and not so good in regard a Boat will runne over it View the Figure CHAP. CCLVI. Duke Alberts Invention for the staying of the Hollanders Shippes at Ostend that his Batteries might the easier discharge upon them IN the Siege of Ostend Duke Albertus had planted divers Block-houses with Ordnance to impeach the Hollanders shipping which releeved the Towne yet with a quicke tyde and faire Winde they entred in despight of his Ordnance without any dammage wherefore he bethought him to draw a mighty Cable over the Channell where the Shippes did usually passe safely by the favour of the darke night to divers parts of this Cable he fastned divers empty Caske as Pipes and Hogsheads to beare it up straite and even also there were certaine Anchors to stay the Pipes and Cable from floating away hee having prepared his Batteries in

upon the passages and how the out-Guardes are to be plac't with divers other observations thereunto belonging HAving formerly discourst of such rules and observations as are most requisite and pertinent for the Marching of an Army In this Chapter I finde it convenient that we should shew such rules and observations as are most usefull for the secure incamping of an Army wherein there is great wisedome and circumspection to be used in the well managing of the same wherefore first there are two things offered to our consideration viz. whether an Army is to be quartered but for a night or for to be incamped for a long season and from these two questions there is a third produc'd viz. whether the Army of your enemy be at hand or farre remote now in regard in the former discourse of marching I have toucht briefely the manner of quartering an Army for a night or two upon a March where most usually no enemy is neere it being then a matter of no such consequence as it is when an Army must pitch downe his quarters or entrenchments for a long season and perchance in the face of the enemy therefore I will bee sparing in the first and also be as briefe as the subject will permit in the second viz. the incamping an Army for some long time wherein also there are two things considerable viz. the strength of the enemies Forces and the neerenesse of his Camp for wee must observe that slight intrenchments are of sufficiency to safeguard an Army where the enemy is weake and his Camp farre remote In the next place we are to have a due respect to the situation and commodiousnesse of water wood forrage for the horses and a safe and convenient recourse for to convay victualls and necessaries to the Camp which must bee either by land or water these things being duely considered the Army being drawne to the place of incampment standing in Battalia the Quarter-master Generall being directed by the Lord Generall of the Army is to lot out the Stations of ground for every regiment to be quartered in then the Quarter-master of each particular Regiment is to line out every particular Companies Station in the Regiment beginning with the eldest Regiments and in every Regiment the eldest Company which are to be plac't at the right hand and so successively every Company according to his antiquitie and every Regiment according to theirs In the meane time the Earle Marshall the Serjeant Majors Scout-Masters are to take notice what passages and places of accesse are whereby the enemy may approach to this Campe and in the convenientest places of them they are to command double guards both of horse and foote to be plac't for the securing of the Army whilst the intrenchments are making Before the principall workes of the Campe are to bee raised there must bee Redouts speedily made upon all such passages to lodge those out-guards in and for the same purpose the Pioners and Souldiers are to make what speed possibly may bee These Redouts are to bee made in greatnesse as the place requires number of Souldiers to defend it viz. upon a small passage where the enemy is not to bee expected there a triangular Redout sufficient to containe thirty or forty men is requisite if the passage bee more dangerous then a foure-square Redout which may hold eighty or an hundred men but upon the chiefest passage of all either a Sconce is to bee built or otherwise two Redouts which may bee either foure-square or triangular one being raised upon one side of the way the other somewhat wide upon the other side of the way with the point or corner of the worke towards the enemies approaches by reason more hands may bee brought to give fire upon them from the two sides which make the angle or point In the meane time whilst this is in agitation the front of the Army is to bee pallizado'd with such stakes as is described in the discourse of warlike instruments which are to bee driven one within a foote of another these shall keepe off both the horse and the foote if they should breake through the guards Then as soone as conveniently may be the works are to be raised of the Quarters and as they finish the pallizadoes are to bee pulled up againe as hereafter in this discourse wee shall speake more plainely of The Prince of Orange used also many times to place Redouts more inward within Musket-shot one of another to secure the Campe the horse guards are within the outmost Redouts but their horse-Sentinels are set out perdue beyond the furthest works and also beyond the foot-Sentinels which are alwaies plac't a good distance from the works upon the passages that they may give the alarme upon all occasions and so to retreat into the worke No Souldier during the time of his watch in any of these Redouts is to have his Bandilires off from about him nor any Pike-man his Gorget from about his necke their Peeces must be likewise loaded with powder and shot in a continuall readinesse and a Sentinell standing duly upon the brest-worke to discover the enemies approaches at which time the Officer which commands the worke is to place betwixt each two Musketires a Pike-man to make the better defence Those Officers that guard in such Redouts seldome or never carry their Colours with them but leave them in their Quarters with a guard passing upon them Both the Captain and the Ensigne are to march with their Company with each of them a Pike These Redouts are to bee releeved every night before Sunne-set with fresh Companies from the main Campe where no Souldier is to pull off his Armour or set downe his Pike or Musket untill they bee all entred the worke and the Sentinels set out in their due places Every severall Redout hath a particular name to distinguish one from the other and the Officers must draw Billets who shall have the guard in them so that no Officer shall aforehand know his guard to avoyd trecherie These Redouts may bee pallizado'd to make the defence more strong against the enemy which is performed after this manner when the worke is raised neere the toppe then lay in some sharpe stakes of hard wood a yard into the ground and as much out of the ground three quarters of a foot asunder but these kind of workes are seldome pallizado'd unlesse they be very great and set in dangerous places for assaulting Now wee are to shew how the maine Quarters are to be fortified wherein wee are to dispose the forme of it according as the situation shall direct us but by the way wee must make sure that no hilly ground bee neere the Quarters fearing left the enemy take it for his advantage and so annoy the Campe with his Ordnance if such a place should bee either it must bee levelled or else a worke raised upon it to defend it If an Army may have such an advantage to be quartered neere