A brief book unto private captains leading footmen, their officers, necessary instructing to march, train and embattle their numbers, as to service is convenient ... [manuscript], 1562.

A brief book unto private captains leading footmen, their officers, necessary instructing to march, train and embattle their numbers, as to service is convenient ... [manuscript], 1562.

[2], 1-17, 19-44 leaves.

List of contents (see latter part) suggests a fuller account was intended. The numbers in this list do not correspond either to chapter numbers or folio numbers. There are many diagrams of troop formations. Some of the contents correspond fairly closely to later English works on military tactics, e.g. Thomas Styward's The pathway to martial discipline, 1581, and William Garrard's The art of war, 1591.

Incomplete; first part only.

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Henry Barrett describes himself as one of the yeoman of the Queen's Majesty's most honorable chamber and one who had been moved "to write of such experience of knowledge as I have by my few years travail amongst divers nations obtained and gotten." A Henry Barret wrote The arming of a Christian Warrior, 1549 (STC 1499).

Infinite variety : exploring the Folger Shakespeare Library / edited by Esther Ferington. Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, c2002, p. 98.
Much of the text is transcribed in the appendix to J.R. Hale's On a Tudor parade ground: the captain's handbook of Henry Barrett 1562, 1978. (U28 no.5 (Pamph.))

Formerly Folger MS Add 573.

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Great Britain -- England.

V.a.455

MS Add 573