Of the Gunners service in generall.
NOw forasmuch as Ordnance are Engins of force, reason, waight, and measure: and the Gunners men exercised and experienced in them and their apurtenances, in making platforms with defences, Troniers, Gabbions, Loopes, Parapets of earth, and Faggots about 23. or 24. foot high, of Faggots of 2. foot high of earth, bed upon bed vnto eleven foot high, and after 3. foot of Terraplene, to raise the Troniers and Loopes, so that for the Canon it be 3. foot wide in the Barb and within 12. foot wide without the lower part therof to de∣scend scarpwise the better to discover the Enemies avenews, and offend them the more freely, for avoyding the blast and smoake, and ruine, it would else make: For the Culverings 2 foot and a halfe within, and 9 foot without will suffice, and for lesse peeces, lesse measures. If the Battery be to be made with Gabbions, they being filled with earth without stones, moist∣ned, and rammed 7. foot a peece in dyametre, 3. rankes betwen 2. peeces, if the place will permit or 2. at the least, and 3. rowes also one before another, setting one betwen two, so if the 1. ranke haue 3. the second will haue two, and the third one, but it will be hard to make a safe Battery with Gabbions, Canon, or Culvering proofe: And each platforme is to haue 30. foot for the reverse of the Canon, and 27. foot for the Demy Canon, he ought to see that it be levelled, or rising 1. foot for 20. backwards the better to stay the reverse and faci∣lity, the bringing the peece being loaded to the Loop: He ought to search and examine, the goodnesse of the peeces, their Ladels, Rammers Spunges and Tampion, fitnesse and round∣nesse of the shot, force and goodnesse of the powder and match; And to see all fitted accor∣dingly, and to place the powder covertly, hid safe from the fire of his owne as also of the Enemies Ordnance, to see the Gunners take their markes toward the under part, giving each under Gunner his charge.