Directions for Musters, published in 1638, described a musketeer’s principle equipment: &ldquo

Directions for Musters, published in 1638, described a musketeer’s principle equipment: “The musketier must be armed with a good musket (the barrel of 4 foot long, the bore of 12 bullets in the pound rowling in), a rest, bandelier, head-piece, a good sword, girdle & hangers.” The procedure for loading and firing a matchlock musket and how to organise and manage bodies of musketeers was described in a number of drill books. One of the most popular, running to asix editions between 1635 and 1661, was William Barriffe’s Military Discipline. This drill was based on that developed at the end of the 16th Century in the Netherlands by Prince Maurice of Nassau and it would become the universal drill of the Thirty Years War. The complete matchlock musket drill explained by Barriffe consisted of 60 different movements, each with its own command, of which 30 dealt with the process of loading and firing. Part of the complexity of the drill was due to the need to keep separate the powder and the means of igniting it, the slow-burning match. After firing, reloading was carried out without any further orders.
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Kate Gray
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