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Instructions for musters and armes, and the vse thereof : by order from the Lords of His Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Counsaile. Whitehall the 27. of Iuly 1631.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- England and Wales. Privy Council.
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- England and Wales. Army--Drill and tactics--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.
- England and Wales.
- England and Wales. Army.
- Drill and minor tactics.
- Drill and minor tactics--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (16 unnumbered pages)
- Other Title:
- Instructions for musters and armes, and the use thereof.
- Place of Publication:
- Imprinted at London : By Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie: and by the assignes of Iohn Bill, M.D.C.XXXI. [1631]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Signatures: A-B⁴.
- The first leaf is blank except for signature-mark "A" in part of a woodcut frame.
- The CSmH copy is followed by [21] leaves of engraved plates derived from "The exercise of armes for calivres, muskettes, and pikes", the English translation of "Wapen-handelinghe van roers, musquetten, en spiessen" by Jacob de Gheyn. They have four images to a plate, with 48 musket and 36 pike positions. The last leaf has imprint "Are to be sould by Wm. Sheffard at Popes head alley in Lombard streete". Not listed separately in STC, but see note to 794.5.
- Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 770:15) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd edition) 7684.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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