DIRECTIONS FOR MUSTERS Wherein is Shown the order of Drilling for the Musket and Pike Printed at Cambridge And are to be sold by Roger Daniel at the Angel in Lombard Street DIRECTIONS FOR MUSTERS: Wherein is shown the order of drilling for the Musket and Pike. Set forth in postures, with the words of command, and brief instructions for the right use of the same. Printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, printers to the University of Cambridge. 1638. Directions for Musters. THe Land-forces of this kingdom are either Trained or Untrained. a His Majesty's letters, September 21. 1628. In the Trained-bands, and in having them well 1 Chosen, well 2 Armed, and well 3 Disciplined, a most essential part of the strength and safety of the kingdom consisteth. ¶ b Ibidem. Touching the Choice of the persons of men to be enrolled in the Trained-lists; They must be men sufficient, of able and active bodies; none of the meaner sort, nor servants; but only such as be of the Gentry, Freeholders', and good Farmers, or their sons, that are like to be resident. And this stands with great reason: c Q. Elisab. her letters, April 9 1585. these Bands being only to be employed as a Guard for the Prince his Person, and the withstanding of a foreign enemy. d LL. of the Counsels letter's April 27. 1635. And therefore it is also required that they be well affected in Religion, and take the oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance. e Q. Elisabeths' Commission, March 14. 1573. None were formerly to be excused from personal service, but Prelates, Lords of the Parliament, and privy Counsel, Ecclesiastical persons, and Judges and judicial Officers. And now f LL. of the Counsels letters, May 31. 1631. none are to be exempted but the King's menial servants, or such as have some such place under the King as may lawfully excuse them. Also, g His Majesty's orders, 1626. none to remove his dwelling out of the Town or Parish of his abode, without licence of a Deputie-lieutenant. ¶ Concerning their Arming; Every Captain is to h His Majesty's letters, Sept. 21. 1628. charge Arms in his respective hundred or precinct, equally and impartially, according to the value of each man's lands or means, whether the owners be there resident or not. i Ibidem. And no Arms are to be allowed of but complete ones, and of the best modern fashion. k Orders, 1626. Every man must have the Horse or Arms he stands charged with, at all times ready at an hour's warning, of his own. l LL. of the Counsels letters, Jan. 10. 1627. And if any man shall appear at the Muster with a borrowed Horse or Arms, or in any other unfitting manner, he shall be proceeded against as a high contemner of the King's royal command, and as one that betrayeth (as much as in him lieth) the honour of his Majesty, and the safety of his kingdoms. Moreover, every man is required not only to appear at Musters in m Stat. 4ᵒ. & 5ᵒ. Phil. & Mar. cap. 3. his best Arms, but also in his best Array. n Proclamation. And for the preventing of the abuse of showing borrowed Arms, every Captain is to stamp the Arms of his Company, thereby to be known and distinguished. Now the Arms be either for Horse or Foot. o Military instructions for the cavalry, 1632. Part 1. chap. 23, 24. Concerning the Horse; how the several kinds of them are to be armed, is showed at large in a book of cavalry lately published. The Foot are either Pikes or Musketeers. p Orders advised on by the Counsel of war. The Pikeman must be armed with a Pike seventeen foot long head and all; (the diameter of the staff to be one inch ¾. the head to be well steeled, 8 inches long, broad, strong, and sword-pointed; the cheeks 2 foot long, well riveted; the butt-end bound with a ring of iron) a Gorget, Back, Breast, Tassets' and Head-piece, a good Sword of 3 foot long, cutting and stiff-pointed, with Girdle and Hangers. The Musketier must be armed with a good Musket, (the Barrel of 4 foot long, the Boar of 12 bullets in the pound rolling in) a Rest, Bandelier, Head-piece, a good Sword, Girdle and Hangers. ¶ Election and Arming availeth little without Discipline; this being the soul and principal part, must be seriously and frequently practised: for the better performance whereof q Orders, 2626. every Commander and Officer must enable himself to perform the duties of their several places. r LL. of the Counsels Orders, 1623. Every Captain must make choice of his certain and constant File-leaders, out of his best men, which must exercise their respective files on holy-days or other convenient days; the Musketeers then using only a little powder for the pan. He must appoint to every File-leader his certain file, of such as dwell nearest to him, for the more ready calling of them together. The Captain, Lieutenant, or Ensign is to exercise a Squadron, or the whole Company once a month or 6 weeks on a holiday, as shall seem good to the Deputie-lieutenant. For the better enabling the Musketeers for service, they are sometimes to be exercised with bullets at marks. s Orders, 1626. No Soldier must presume to departed from his Colours, until he be discharged by his Captain. t Stat. 4ᵒ. & 5ᵒ. Phil. & Mar. cap. 3. If any one absent himself from the Muster (general or special) he is to suffer 10 days imprisonment without bail or mainprize, or else to pay 40 shillings. Soldier's must be exercised, (first apart by themselves) in their Postures or true use of their Arms; (then joined in a Body) in their Distances, Motions and Skirmishes. How the Horse are to be exercised, is showed in the said book of cavalry. ¶ For the Foot, the usual Postures for the Pike are these; Handle your Pike. Order your Pike. Advance your Pike. Order your Pike. Shoulder your Pike. Port your Pike. Charge your Pike. Advance your Pike. Shoulder your Pike. Charge to the Rear your Pike. Shoulder your Pike. Order your Pike. Cheek your Pike. Trail your Pike. Recover and charge your Pike. Order at close order your Pike. Charge for horse your Pike. Recover your Pike. ¶ The Postures for the Musket are these; Put on your Bandeliers. Take up your Rest. Take up your Match. Handle your Musket. Order your Musket. Give your Rest to your Musket. Open your Pan. Clear your Pan. Prime your Pan. Shut your Pan. Cast off your lose Powder. Blow off your lose Powder. Cast about your Musket. Trail your Rest. Open your Charge. Charge with Powder Charge with Bullet. Draw forth your Skowring-stick. Shorten your Skowring-stick. Ram home. Withdraw your Skowring-stick. Shorten your Skowring-stick. Return your Skowring-stick. Recover your Musket. Poise your Musket & recover your Rest. Give your Rest to your Musket. Draw forth your Match. Blow your Coal. Cock your Match. Try your Match. Guard your Pan, and blow. Open your Pan. Present. Give fire. Dismount your Musket. Vncock your Match. Return your Match. Shoulder your Musket. So make ready as before. March with your Rest in your right hand. Carry your Rest with your Musket. unshoulder your Musket. Poise your Musket. Rest your Musket. Draw forth your Match. Blow your Match. Cock your Match. Try your Match. The Sentinel posture. The manner how to perform these postures, both of Pike and Musket, is fully showed in the figures annexed. These postures in service are reduced to these three more general words, namely, Make ready, Present, and Give fire. Having attained the use of their Arms, they must be taught their military Motions. To do this, they must be ordered into a Body, composed of Files. Aelian. cap. 5. A File is a sequence of Men placed right after a Leader, every one according to his worth; and consisteth (at the most) of ten men, which are thus distinguished; Number of place. Number of dignity. 1 Leader. 1 2 5 3 9 4 8 5 Middle-man. 4 6 Middle-man. 3 7 7 8 10 9 6 10 Bringer-up. 2 A Rank is a row of Sidemen, standing one by another in a right line, shoulder to shoulder; and are thus distinguished; Number of place. 10. 9 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. 2. 6. 10. 7. 3. 4. 8. 9 5. 1. Number of dignity. That which follows next is distance; whereof there be three kinds most usual: Open order, which is 6 foot in Rank and File; Order, which is 3 foot in Rank and File; and Close order, which is a foot and half between File and File. Open order is used when a company is to be exercised: Order, when they come to fight, or wheel: Close order in File, is only for the Pikes when they come to charge the enemy, or to receive a charge. In a long March, the Files are at Order, and the Ranks at Open order. The usual way to measure these distances, is thus; Open order between File and File is, when the Soldiers stretching out their arms, their hands touch each other; and between the Ranks, when the butt-end of the shouldered Pikes almost reach to their Leaders heels. And for Order between the Files, when the Soldiers setting their arms a kembo, their elbows touch; and in Ranks, when they come up to their Leaders swords point. Close order, is shoulder to shoulder. The Motions are of 4 kinds, namely, Face, Doubling, Countermarches, and Wheelings. Suppose a Company of 100 men ( u Orders, 1623. which is the number thought fittest) whereof 50 to be Muskets, and 50 Pikes: being drawn up (by Files) into a Body, at their Open order, they stand thus, Stand right in your Files. Make even your Ranks. Silence. Front. Right Flank. Rear. Left Flank. To the right hand. This motion is performed by turning (all at once) to the right hand, keeping the left foot fixed. Thus, they are ready to receive a charge on the Flank. To reduce them, you command, As you were. To face them to the left, you command, To the left hand. And reduce them as before. To the right hand about. To reduce them, you command, By the left hand as you were. There be many other Face, as, To the right and left (by ½ Ranks) outward and inward; By the Half-files; To the Angles; To the Centre; and the like: which are here omitted for brevity sake. Ranks to the right double. The second Rank passeth into the first, the fourth into the third, and so successively, every man standing at his Leaders right hand. Ranks as you were. By the left hand they fall into their places. Ranks to the left double. Which is done as the former, only the hand is changed. They are reduced as before; every man that doubled falls into his place by the right hand. Middle-men, to the right hand double the Front. Middle-men, as you were. Middle-men, to the left hand double the Front. Bringers-up to the right or left double the Front. Which makes the Figure as the former, but that the last Rank gins the motion, and standeth within the first Rank. Middle-men to the right or left entire, or by division, double the Front. Files to the right double. The second File moveth into the first, every man behind his Right-side-man; the fourth into the third; and so successively. Files as you were. Files to the left double. Which is as the former, only the hand changed. Files as you were. Files to the right hand Countermarch. Every File-leader advanceth with the right leg turning to the right hand about, and marcheth until he come into the ground where the last Rank stood; the other Ranks move up to the File-leaders ground, and there turn as the first, successively. Files to the left Countermarch. Ranks to the right or left Countermarch. Files to the right, left, or middle close to your order. Ranks close forward to your order. To the right hand wheel. All the body wheels towards the right, upon the right hand File-leader, as the Centre. To the left hand wheel. To the right or left about wheel. There be diverse other Doubling, Countermarches, and Wheelings: but because the Trained bands are not so capable of them, and there be many books published on that subject, they are here (for brevity) omitted. Concerning Skirmish (for which they are now in fitting distance) there be diverse and sundry Forms, both against Horse and Foot. Usually, the fight is begun by drawing out some Files disbanded; or else by 2 Ranks advancing 10 paces before the body, which make ready together: a Sergeant (or some other Officer) there stands, to whom these 2 first Ranks come up; then present, and give fire, first the first Rank, than the second; so fall off into the Rear, into their own Files. So soon as the two first Ranks advance forwards, the two next Ranks must make ready, then advance forward 10 paces, and do as the former two Ranks; so all successively. They may then fire even with the Front of Pikes; then on the Half-files, or as they shall be commanded. To fire to the Rear, the last Rank makes ready, keeping still with the body; being ready, they present to the right about; then fire, and march a round pace, and place themselves in Front in the same order as they were ranked: so all the rest successively. To fire by Flanks, the outermost File towards the enemy makes ready, marching with the body; then faces and presents to the hand commanded, and fires: the next File to that doth the like; and being marched clear off that File, gives fire: so all the rest. An Officer is to lead up the Files which have given fire, either in the same order they stood in, or to convey them beyond the left Files of Musketeers, or within the Pikes, or beyond the Pikes on the left Flank, as shall be thought best. The Musketeers must ever be careful (whether being shouldered or making ready) to mount the muzzle of their Musket. The Front Half-files of Pikes are only to charge their Pikes, the Rear Half-files to port them in time of fight. ¶ Touching the untrained forces; all able-bodied men untrained from 16 years to 60 must be enrolled. LL. of Counsel's letters, April 27. 1635. and Orders, 1626. And the abler sort of men are to be provided of Arms for their particular uses. With these Arms, and the Arms of Recusants sequestered, such levies as shall be made upon any sudden occasion out of the untrained men, are to be armed; and then exercised and ordered into Companies. FINIS. 1 Put on your Bandeliers. Take up the Bandeliers in the right hand, hold them in the hollow between the thumb and forfinger, then clearing your boxes from tangling with your left hand▪ put your elbow through the handeleir and bring your right hand over your head, takeing your hat in the left hand leave the bandeleir on your left shoulder. 2 Take up your Rest Take your Rest in the Right hand at the foot end then take it in the left about the middle they with the right hand take it at the iron and put your left hand through the string and hold the Rest with the left hand 3 Take up your Match. Take up the Match at the middle with your, thumb and fore finger of the left hand, then with your thumb and second finger of the Right hand peace one end of the match between the great and Ring finger and the other end between the Ring and little finger of the left hand and so let the middle hang down. 4 Handle your Musket Standing at the But end of your musket with your right foot, the left somewhat advanced and the knee bend) which is the general proper stand of a Musketier give a large step with your right leg, then stooping down yet bearing up your head, with your right hand gripe the Musket, and so raising up your body fall back to the first stand. 5 Order your Musket Being come to your first stand hold your Musket barrel in your hand about the height of your shoulder with the But end on the ground, In your left hand hold the Rest a little below the fork, the Pike end on the ground 6 Give your Rest to your Musket Sink down your right hand not bowing your body, then gripe your musket and lift it up the bring about the left hand with the rest and join it to your musket on the out side, holding your thumb hard against the fork of the Rest and so carry both musket and Rest in the left hand only. 7 Open your Pann In the joining of your musket and Rest together, fall back with your right leg to your proper stand, then hold the thumb of the Right hand behind the scutchian of the Pan, and with your two former fingers draw back the cover of the Pan. 8 Clear your Pann Bring up your musket with the left hand only, towards your mouth and blow your Pan stiffly not slooping upon any terms, and in the mean time with your right hand take your touch box as in the figure 8 9 Prime your Pan Hold your touch box between the thumb and fore finger of the right hand only and so Prime as in the figure. 10 shut your Pan Lay the right thumb over the barrel near the Pan, and with your two foremost fingers shut the Pan. 11 cast of your: lose Powder Hold your musket fast with the right hand at the breech, the left as before turneing the Pan. downwards that the lose powder may fall of. 12 Blow of your lose Powder. Hold your musket in both hands as before, bear it up towards your mouth, not stooping blow of the lose powder. 13 Cast about your Musket Hold your musket in both hands as before bear it right up towards your left side and with all step forwards the right leg then holding the musket only in the right hand at the breech forsake the Rest 14 Trayse your Rest Having forsaken your rest take the Musket into the left hand about the middle of the barrel so as the butt end touch not the ground trailing your rest between your musket and your body 15 Open your charge. Take your charge in your right hand: with the thumb and forefinger thereof thrust of the cover 16 Charge with Powder. Put back your left hand with the musket as fare as conveniently you can, and with your right hand turn the powder into the muzell of the barrel holding the charge between your thumb & forefinger only as in the figure. 17 charge with Bullet Take your Bullet forth of your bag or out of your mouth and put it into the muzell of your musket. 18 Draw forth your scouring stick With your right hand (the palm turned from your) draw forth your scouring stick beareing your body & your left hand with your musket so far back as you cann. 19 Shorten your scouring stick Having drawn forth your scouring stick set the Rammer head against your breast and slip your hand close to your Rammer that you may the easier put it into the muzell. 20 Ram Home. Put your scouring stick down into your musket and Ram home hard twice or thrice. 21 withdraw your scouring stick With your right hand turned draw your scouring stick out of your musket as before. 22 shorten your scouring stick Your scouring stick being drawn forth of the barrel, turn it, and bring the scouring stick end to your breast & so slip your hand within an hand full of the end. 23 Return your scouring stick Put the scouring stick to his place from whence you had it 24 Recover your Musket. Bring forward your musket with your left hand and bear it right up Take it into the right hand at the breech and so hold it in the right hand only. 25 Poise your Musket and recover your Rest: Fall back with your right leg to your first stand hold your musket in fright hand at the breech and recover your rest in your left hand holding it just under the fork. 26 Give your Rest to your Musket. Bring up your left hand with the rest towards your right side near your musket and so sink your musket & hold it with the rest in the left hand only, the rest being one the out side of the musket. 27 Draw forth your Match Take your match from between your little finger with the thumb and the second finger of your right hand being turned with the Palm from you. 28 Blow your Coal Bring the right hand with the match backward and your left hand with the musket and rest forward, turning your face some what backward blow your match stiff 29 Cock your Match. Holding your match between your thumb and second finger bring it to the cock, and press it into the cock with the thumb 30 Try your Match. Your thumb and forefinger being upon the cock and the second and third finger under the cock, pull the cock to the Pan and with the finger either raiseor sinkethe match 31 Guard & blow. lay the two forefingers of the right hand upon the pan, the thumb behind the scutcheon of the pan the easier to lift up the musket, and so raising up the musket with both hands blow as before in the i2 posture 32 Open your Pan with the two forefingers of the right hand open the Pan as in the 7 posture 33 Present. Remove your. right hand to the thumb hole your second finger to the tricker with your left hand fix the fork of the Rest to your musket and your thumb against the fork, and the pike end of the rest on the ground. 34 Give Fire lift up your right elbow and place the but end of your musket within your shoulder near your breast, the small end appearing a little above you shoulder standing with the left leg foremost and the knee bend and the right leg standing stiff 35 Dismount your Musket Bring your musket and rest to your right side and carry both in the left hand only 36 Vncocke your Match Take the match from the cock with the thumb and second singer of your right hand holding the musket and rest in the left hand only. 37 Return your Match. Put the match between the two lesser fingers of the left hand from whence you had it. Note from henc forward you may Prime & charge as before from the 8 posture and so forward as in the 25 posture 38 Shoulder your Musket. Having your musket poized hold your rest an handful under the fork, then bring your musket before your body and your rest crossover it behind the thumb hole, and so with both hands lay it gently on your shoulder having the rest cross your body and withal bring your right leg up to your left, then fall back again with your right leg. 39 March with your rest in your right hand. First take the match from the left hand between the fingers of the right hand, then take the string of the Rest from the left arm, and return the match between the fingers of the left hand and take the rest in the right hand. 40 March and with your Musket carry your rest. First shift the match as in the former direction, than put the string of the Rest over the left arm and the rest in the hand and so return the match and carry your rest as in the figure. 41 Vnsholder your Musket. Bringing up your right leg to your left sink your musket and carry it right up and withal turn it, that the pike end of your Rest be towards your left side then take the Musket at the breech with your right hand and slip down your left with the rest 42 Poise your Musket. Hold the Musket right up in the right hand on your right side raise your left hand to the fork of your rest, and set your thumb against the fork as in the figure. 43 Rest your Musket. Bring up your left hand with the fork of the rest to the musket, and so let Musket and rest sink down together and fall back with your right leg to your proper stand▪ 44 Draw out your Match. Take the match between the thumb and the seacond finger of the right hand as in the xxvii posture and with the thumb of your left hand hold the musket fast on the rest. 45 Blow your Match. Bear your Musket and rest forward with the left hand, and your match backward in the right, and blow as in the 28 posture. 46 Cock your Match. Cock your macth as in the 29th posture 47 Try your Match. Try your match as in the 30th posture. 48 The sentinel Posture. Hold the two forefingers of the right hand upon your pan, the thumb behind the scutchian ready upon all occasions 1 Handle your Pike. Standing at the but end of your Pike fall backward with your left foot, and with your right hand turned, take your Pike at the But end and bring your right hand up to your hip. 2 Recover your Pike & Order. Bring your left foot before your right, and with your left hand take your Pike forwards bearing the butt end downward, and remove your right hand above your left 3 Order your Pike. Set the but end of your Pike near your right foot on the outside, holding it right up in your right hand, about the height of your eye, and your arm a little Bending, and your right foot forward 4 Advance your Pike in three motions. The first Motion. with the right hand alone bring your Pike just before your body, bearing it directly right up, raising the but end from the ground, then take the Pike with your left hand about the height your girdle 5 the seacond Motion Forsake the Pike with your right hand and with the left hand alone raise up the Pike, that the But end be about the height of your thigh, then take the But end in your right hand, without stooping to it 6 the third Motion being Advanced Forsake the Pike with the left hand and with your right hand alone carry the Pike right up locking the Pike between your shoulder and arm. your right hand holding the but end of the Pike about the height of your hip. 7 Order your Pike in three motions. the first Motion. Sink your right hand a little and with your left hand take the Pike as high as well you can reach and bring the Pike just before your Body. 8 the 2d Motion Forsake the Pike with your right hand, and bring down the pike in your left hand that the but end be ne'er unto the ground, then with your right hand take the pike about the height of your head. 9 The 3d motion being ordered Forsak your Pike with your left hand, and with the right hand only set the but end on the ground, on the outside of your right foot as in the third Posture. 10 Shoulder your Pike in 3 motions The first Motion Bring the Pike just before your body and raise the but end from the ground bearing it forward, then take it with your left hand a little beneath your right. 12 The seacond Motion. Bring forward the Pike with your left hand, and take it in your right, reaching backward as far as well you may. 12 The 2d motion being Sholdred Forsake your Pike with your left hand, and with the right only lay it upon your right shoulder, bearing the but end about a foot from the ground, holding your thumb under the Pike, the better to govern it, carrying the pike forward. 13 Port your Pike in 3 motions. the first Motion. Bear your right hand with the pike backward as far as well you can, with yor. left hand take the pike forward, & with the right hand bear the pike upward. 14 The 2d Motion. Forsaking the Pike with the right hand cast the point forward that the But end may conveniently be taken in the right hand. 15 The 3d motion being Ported. Take the But end of the Pike in your right hand holding it about your hip, and raising the pike with your left hand about the hight of you breast carry the Pike directly before you your left foot forward. 16 Charge your Pike Raise the right hand and stretch it backward, your left hand being at your breast, your left elbow against your hip 17 Advance your Pike. Bear down the butt end of the Pike with your right hand and raise the pike with the left, and so advance as in the 6 figure. 18 Shoulder your Pike in 3 Motions. The first motion. Sink your right hand, and with your left take the pike as high as well you can reach bringing the pike just before your body 19 The 2d motion. Forsake the butt end with your right hand bring forward your Pike in the left hand, and take the pike backward in the right hand as far as well you may reach. 20 The 3d motion being Sholdred Forsake the Pike with the left hand, & with the right only lay it upon your shoulder &c: as in the i2 figure. 21 Charge to the Rear in 3 motions. the first motion. Bear the pike with yor. right hand backward, take it forward in your left hand as far as you may conveniently reach, bearing the pike with your right hand upward 22 The 3d motion. Forsaking the Pike with your right hand, bear it over your head and at the same instant turn your body to the left hand that you may conveniently take the butt end of the Pike in your right hand. 23 the 3d motion being Charged. Having the butt end of the Pike in your right hand stretch your right arm backward and set your left hand at your breast &c as in the i6 figure 24 Recover your Pike and Shoulder in 3 motions The first motion. Slip your left hand forward as far as well you may and lift the Pike upwards to your head & with the right hand bear the But end somewhat downward. 25 The seacond motion. Forsakeing the But end of the Pike with your right hand, bear in the Pike over your head with your. left hand only and that instant turn your face to the right hand, and be ready with your right hand to take the Pike more Backward. 26 The 3d motion being Sholdred Having the Pike in the right hand forsake it with your left and with the right hand only, lay it on your shoulder, as in the i2 and 20 figurs, 27 Order your Pike This is to be done in 3 motions as the contrary is shown in the 9 i0. two. figures Bear the Pike with the right hand backward, with your left take it forward, bearing the but end downward, then slip down your right hand a little above your left and set the but end on the ground, as in the: 9 figure 28 Cheek your Pike the first motion This is to be done by several palming postures, first with the right hand bear the but end of the Pike backward, as far as you can and so Contienw palming till you come to the head of your Pike 29 The 2d motion being Cheeked With your left hand hold the Pike a little below the head, your right hand more backward, as fare as the cheeks or arming reach, set your right hand upon your hip, your elbow stretched forth and your left hand more forward before your breast. 30 Trail your Pike Remove your Right hand to your left, and in your right hand only carry your Pike, your hand Being upon your hip. 31 Recover your Pike and Charge The first Palmeing motion This to be done by several Palming postures backward, Bring forward your right hand as far as well you can, and with the left hand gripe the pike Backward as far as you can. 32 The 2d Palming motion Forsake the Pike with your: right hand, bring forward the Pike with the left and take it backward with the right, and so continue palming until you have the But end of the pike in your Right hand 33 Charge your Pike. Stretch your right arm backward with the butt end of the Pike in your hand your left hand at your breast, and your elbow upon your hip & as in the i6 figure 34 Order at close Order. This is to be done in 3 motions first bearing the pike right up before the body and so forward as from the Advance in the 6. 7. & 8. figures, only you must observe to set the, butt end of the Pike at the inside of the right foot with is your close order. 35 Charge for horse and draw your sword The Butt end of your Pike resting against your right foot take it in your left hand about, the height of your girdle and step forward with your left foot the knee bent lay your left arm upon your knee couching down low & draw your sword over your left arm 36 Recover your Pike and put up your sword. Raise your body right up set your Pike: against your right shoulder with the left hand the but end being still upon the ground then put up your sword: