The compleat fencing-master in which is fully described the whole guards, parades & lessons belonging to the small-sword : as also the best rules for playing against either artists or ignorants with blunts or sharps : together with directions how to behave in a single combat on horse-back : illustrated with figures representing the most necessary postures / by Sir W. Hope, Kt.
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- The compleat fencing-master in which is fully described the whole guards, parades & lessons belonging to the small-sword : as also the best rules for playing against either artists or ignorants with blunts or sharps : together with directions how to behave in a single combat on horse-back : illustrated with figures representing the most necessary postures / by Sir W. Hope, Kt.
- Author
- Hope, William, Sir.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Dorman Newman ...,
- 1691.
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- Fencing -- Early works to 1800.
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Contents
- title page
- TO THE YOUNG NOBILITY AND GENTRY Of the KINGDOM of SCOTLAND
- TO THE READER
- ADVERTISEMENT
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THE ART OF DEFENCE and PURSUIT, With the Small-Sword.
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CHAP. I.
Of holding the Sword. -
CHAP. II
Of keeping a Guard. -
CHAP. III.
Of the Lessons Defensive. -
CHAP. 4.
Of the Lessons Offensive. -
Lesson 1.Of Approaching or Advancing. -
Lesson 2.Of Retireing. -
Lesson 3.Of giving in a Thrust. -
Lesson 4.Of Caveating or Dis-engaging. -
Lesson. 5.Of Feinting or Falsifying. -
Lesson 6.Of the Double-Feint. -
Lesson 7.Of the Single Feint at the Head. -
Lesson 8.Of the Double Feint at the Head. -
Lesson 9.Of the Feint at the Head, upon the true Parade. -
Lesson 10.Of the Low Feint. -
Lesson 11.Of Battery. -
Lesson 12.Of Volt Coupe. -
Lesson 13.Of Binding. -
Lesson 14.Of Flancanade. -
Lesson 15.Of Ʋnder-Counter. -
Lesson. 16.of Beating. -
Lesson 17.Of Passing. -
Lesson 18.of Commanding the Sword. -
Lesson 19.Of Breaking of Measure. -
Lesson 20.Of Redoubling of Thrusts. -
Lesson 21.Of raising or gathering up of the sword. -
Lesson 22.Of Quarting and Volting.
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CHAP. V.
How the several Guards, are to be keept, pursued, and defended, and -
First,
Of the Quart Guard with a streight point. -
Secondly
Of the Quart Guard, with the point sloping near to the ground. -
Thirdly,
Of the Terce Guard, with the Point higher then the Hilt. -
Fourthly,
Of the Terce Guard, with the point Lower then the Hilt. -
Fifthly,
Of a Guard, in which a Man is to hold his sword, with both hands. -
First,
Directions for fighting upon horse-back with Pistols. -
Secondly,
Directions for the sheering Sword upon Horse-Back.
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First,
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CHAP. VI.
General Rules to be observed, when a Man is playing either with Blunts or Sharps, against those who understand this Art, or against those who are altogether Ignorant of it.
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CHAP. I.
- POSTSCRIPT
- THE CONTENTS Of the SCOTS FENCING MASTER, OR COMPLEAT SMAL-SWORD-MAN.