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The souldiers exercise: in three bookes. : Containing most necessary and curious rules for the exact mustering both of horse-troopes, and foote-bands, with severall formes of battailes described in figures. A worke fit to bee studied, and meet for the knowledge of captaines, muster-masters, and all young souldiers, and generous spirits that love the honourable practise of armes

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1639.
Call number: 306934
Creator: Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (4to)
Associated people: Markham, Gervase, (1568?-1637.); Markham, Gervase, (1568?-1637.); Markham, Gervase, (1568?-1637.); Norton, John, (-approximately 1640,); Bellamie, John, (-1654,); Perry, Hugh, (active 1626-1645,); Overton, Henry, (active 1629-1648,)
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