Compendium belli: or The touchstone of martiall discipline. Wherein is set foorth briefe rules and directions to take speciall notice of. The next of marches, exercising of a company, ordering of muskaters, imbattelling from 100. vnto 40000. The forme of encamping, with briefe notes belonging therevnto: plots of fortifications and forts: with the manner of lading and blowing off great ordnance, making of granados. Also shewing the extraction of the square roote, with a table from 16. vnto 10000. Likewise certaine questions of arithmaticke concerning millitary discipline: with a table also for the discouering of numbers by rancke and file. / Witten [sic] by Iohn Roberts of Weston neere Bath, Gent.

Title

Compendium belli: or The touchstone of martiall discipline. Wherein is set foorth briefe rules and directions to take speciall notice of. The next of marches, exercising of a company, ordering of muskaters, imbattelling from 100. vnto 40000. The forme of encamping, with briefe notes belonging therevnto: plots of fortifications and forts: with the manner of lading and blowing off great ordnance, making of granados. Also shewing the extraction of the square roote, with a table from 16. vnto 10000. Likewise certaine questions of arithmaticke concerning millitary discipline: with a table also for the discouering of numbers by rancke and file. / Witten [sic] by Iohn Roberts of Weston neere Bath, Gent.

Author

Roberts, John, of Weston.

Publication

London :: printed by I. Norton and A. Mathewes.,

1626.

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Subject terms

Military art and science -- Early works to 1800.

Drill and minor tactics -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE RIGHT HO∣nourable WILLIAM Earle of Pembrooke, Lord Herbert of Cardiffe, Lo: Parre and Rosse of Kendall, Lo: Marmion and St. Quintin: Lord Warden of the Staneries in the County of Deuon and Cornewall, of the most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight: Chancellor of the V∣niuersity of Oxford, and Captaine of the Kings Ma∣iesties Towne and Castle of Portsmouth, and the Iland of Portsey, Lo: Chamberlaine to his Maiestie, and one of the Lords of his Maiesties most honorable Priuy Councell.
• To all Gentlemen and Louers of the Art of Warre.
• Compendium Belli: OR THE TOVCHSTONE of Martiall Discipline.
  • To your Right Hand.
  • As you were.
  • To the Left Hand.
  • As you Were.
  • To the Right Hand About.
  • To the Left Hand as you were.
  • To the Left Hand about.
  • To the Right hand as you were.
  • Rankes to your Right Hand Double.
  • Rankes to your Left Hand as you were.
  • Rankes to your Left Hand double.
  • Rankes to your Right Hand as you were.
  • Files to your Right Hand double.
  • Files as you were.
  • Files to your Left Hand double.
  • Files as you were.
  • Halfe Files to your Right Hand, Double your Rankes.
  • Halfe Files to your Left Hand, Double your Rankes.
  • Halfe Files to the Right Hand, As you were.
  • Files to your Right hand Countermarch.
  • Files to your Right Hand Countermarch.
  • Close your Files both wayes at a Foote and Halfe.
  • Close your Ranckes to three Foote.
  • Ranckes to the Right Hand wheele.
  • Rancks to your Left Hand wheele.
  • Ranckes to the Right Hand wheele vpon a Center.
  • Rancks to the Left Hand wheele vpon the Center.
  • Open your Ranckes backward.
  • Open your Files both wayes.
  • Here you are in your Order as you were at first, three foote in File, and sixe foote in Rancke.
  • How to exercise Muskatieres.
    • First Rancke giue Fire, and Countermarch to the Reare.
    • The Second Order.
    • The Third Order.
    • The Fourth Order.
    • The Fifth Order.
    • The Sixth Order.
    • The Seauenth Order.
    • The Eighth Order.
    • The Ninth Order.
    • The Tenth Order.
    • The Eleuenth Order.
    • The Twelfth Order.
    • The Thirteenth Order.
    • The Fourteenth Order.
    • The Fifteenth Order.
    • The Sixteenth Order.
    • The Seuenteenth Order.
    • The Eighteenth Order.
    • Ranks to your right and left hand by Conuersion.
    • Deuisions of Pikes and Muskatieres to your right and left hand by Conuersion.
    • The Twentieth Order.
  • How to reduce a Diamond out of a Square, and also out of a Diamond, into a trianguler forme.
  • The reason I set downe here so many seuerall sorts of Battalias, is, because you must when you Imbattell, order them accor∣ding to the scituation, wherefore you cannot ob∣serue one order, therefore as you finde cause take choyse, for variety is neuer hurtfull.
    • The first Battalia of Pikes and Muskets.
      • 100.
      • 204.
      • 200.
      • 301.
      • 392.
      • 400.
      • 506.
      • 600.
      • 511.
      • 714.
      • 750.
      • 800.
      • 900.
      • 1500.
      • 2000.
      • 1000.
      • 1200.
      • 4500.
      • 3000.
      • 4000.
      • 6000.
      • 6690.
      • 9000.
      • 10000.
      • 11000.
      • 12000.
      • 14000.
      • 16000.
      • 20000.
      • 22000.
      • 30400.
      • 24000.
      • 40000.
  • The proportion of a Campe, or Camps.
  • The strongest and perfects fashion of all other for the building of a Curtaine or Wall of a Towne or Fort.
  • The manner that is vsed of La∣ding and blowing of great Ordnance.
  • Questions and Rules concerning Great Ordnance.
  • How to make Granados to shoote in a Peece of Ordnance.
  • How to find out the square Root; of any number by this Table from 16 to 10000.
  • Admonitions for the Citizens of London and Bristoll.
  • The Authors Farewell to his fayth∣full Friends: Or, his Caueats to his louing Countrey-men.
• A Postscript to the Reader.