Certaine vvayes for the ordering of souldiours in battelray, and setting of battayles, after diuers fashions with their manner of marching: and also fugures [sic] of certayne newe plattes for fortification of townes: and moreover, howe to make saltpeter, gunpouder and diuers sortes of fireworkes or wilde fyre, with other thinges appertayning to the warres. / Gathered & set foorth by Peter Whitehorne.
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- Certaine vvayes for the ordering of souldiours in battelray, and setting of battayles, after diuers fashions with their manner of marching: and also fugures [sic] of certayne newe plattes for fortification of townes: and moreover, howe to make saltpeter, gunpouder and diuers sortes of fireworkes or wilde fyre, with other thinges appertayning to the warres. / Gathered & set foorth by Peter Whitehorne.
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- Whithorne, Peter, fl. 1550-1563.
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- Imprinted at London, :: by VV. VVilliamson: for Ihon VVight.
- Anno. 1573.
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"Certaine vvayes for the ordering of souldiours in battelray, and setting of battayles, after diuers fashions with their manner of marching: and also fugures [sic] of certayne newe plattes for fortification of townes: and moreover, howe to make saltpeter, gunpouder and diuers sortes of fireworkes or wilde fyre, with other thinges appertayning to the warres. / Gathered & set foorth by Peter Whitehorne." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B36534.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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A perfecte rule to bring men into a square battell, of what number so euer they be. Cap. i. - ¶ To knowe howe many men maye marche in a rancke, and at a sudden to bring them into a fowresquare battaile, so that their Ansigne, may come to be in the middest. Cap. 2.
- ¶ Howe to ordayne a nomber of men or an armie into a battayle, like vnto a wedge, or three square, so that it maye be apte to marche with the poincte thereof to∣warde the enemies. Cap. 3.
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¶ To make the battell called the sheeres, whiche in olde time they vsed to set against the Triangle. Cap. 4. - VVhat auantage it is to order men in a Tri∣angle battaile against the enemy that knoweth not how to make the battaile called the Shree∣res to set against it, inespecially where there is as many men of the one part as of the other. Cap. 5.
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¶ To bring a number of men or an armie, into a batell, which in olde time was called a Sawe. Cap. 6. - ¶ To fashion a battayle of a nomber of men or an armie like vnto twoo Triangles ioyned together, so that they may bee apte to marche with a corner therof towarde the enemies. Cap. 7.
- ¶ VVhat is best to be done where the ordinance of the enemies being shotte into the army hath slaine many men. Cap. 8.
- ¶ How to chaunge with speede an Armie, that is, in bat∣telray fouresquare, into a triangell fashiō, without dis∣ordering the first ranckes, and without perill of confusion. Cap. xix.
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Of the nature of Saltpeter, and the maner hovve to make and refine it. - ¶ The maner hovve to make all sortes of Gun∣pouder. Chapter xxiiii.
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- ¶ The maner that is vsed of charging and shooting of ordinaunce. Cap. xxv.
- ¶ How to get out quickely the nailes that should hap∣pen by treason, or otherwise to be driuen into the toucheholes of ordinaunce. Cap. xxvi.
- ¶ How much the artillerie ought to be esteemed of the armies novv a daies, and whether the same opinion of them whiche is had vniuersally, be trevve, Cap. xxvij.
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¶ Of Muynes and placing of poulder vnder grounde, wherewith inuinsible fortresses, by fire maye be ruignated, when ordinaunce cannot bee brought vnto them. Capi. xxviiii. -
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- ¶ The maner how to make trombes or trunkes of fyre, as well to assaulte as to defende a breache, or gate, and to set a fyre a towne or Campe or anye thing else. Cap. xxix.
- ¶ Howe to make bottels or pottes offyre worke to throwe into shippes or among men that are in battelraye. Cap. xxx.
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¶ An other composition of fire vvorke. Cap. xxix. - ¶ Balles of mettell to throwe among men in battelraye or otherwise, which breaking shall doo wonderfull hurte. Cap. xxxii.
- ¶ The maner how to prepare pottes and balles of fyreworke to throwe with hande. Cap. xxxiii.
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¶ Howe to make balles of wilde fire, to shoote in ordinaunce or to throwe with handes. Cap. xxxiiij. -
¶ To trime Targettes with fireworke to assaulte, or to defende a breache. Cap. xxxv. - ¶ To make an other kinde of fireworke. Cap. xxxvi.
- ¶ Howe to make a mixture in stone that shall kin∣dle fire with water or spittel. Cap. xxxvii.
- ¶ To make an other kinde of stone to kindle fire with water or spittell. Cap. xxxviii.
- ¶ Howe to make lutum sapientia. Cap. xxxix.
- ¶ How to make certayn fireworke to tye at the poinctes of pikes or horsemen staues. Cap. xl.
- ¶ Howe to make diuers compositions of fireworkes. Cap. xli.
- ¶ How to make a girdle for Souldiours or Fisshers wher∣by they may go in the water and passe ouer a riuer without either bridge or bote. Cap. xlii.
- ¶ How to write, and cause the same that is writen to be read a farre of without sending anye message. Cap. xli.
- To the Reader.
- ¶ The table of the additions.
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