Number of Men. 



150 

 120 

 100 



80 



70 



60 



50 

 40 



30 



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This number, to which is often added a boy to bring pow- 

 der to every gun, may be occafionally reduced, and the guns 

 aeverthelefs well managed. .,,,,, , , 



The number of men appomted to the fmall arms, on board 

 his majeily's Ihips and floops of war by order of the admi- 

 ralty, are, 



Rate of the Ship. 



ift 

 2d 



3d of 80 guns 



— of 70 g^ms 

 4th of 60 guns 



— of 50 guns 

 5th 

 6th 

 Hoops of war 



The lieutenants are ufually ftationed to command the dif- 

 ferent batteries, and dired their efforts againft the enemy. 

 The mafter fuperintends the movements of the fhip, and 

 •whatever relates to the fails. The boatfwain and a fufficient 

 number of men are ftationed to repair the damaged rigging : 

 and the gunner and carpenter whatever may be found ne- 

 ceffary, according to their refpedive offices. The marines 

 are generally quartered on the poop and forecaflle, or gang- 

 way, under the direftion of their officers : although, on 

 fome occafions, they affift at the great guns, particularly m 

 diftant cannonading. Falconer. See Eng.igement. 



Quartering, in Gunnery, is when a piece of ordnance is 

 fo traverfed, that it will flioot on the fame line, or on the 

 fame point of the compafs, as the (hip's quarter bears. 



Quartering, in Heraldry, the aft of dividing a coat 

 into four or more quarters, or quarterings, by parting, 

 couping, &c. i. e. by perpendicular and horizontal lines, 

 &c. See Quarter and Quarterly. 



The king of Great Britain quarters with Great Britain, 

 France, Ireland, Brunfwick, &c. 



Colombiere reckons twelve forts of quartering ; but other 

 authors give us more — wz. party per pale, dividing the 

 efcutcheons from top to bottom. See Pale. — Party per 

 crofs, dividing it from fide to lide. See Cros.s. — Party of 

 fix pieces, when the efcutcheon is divided into fix parts, or 

 quarters. — Party of ten ; of twelve ; of fixteen ; of twenty ; 

 and of thirty-two ; when there are fo many partitions re- 

 fpeiftively. 



Others give the divifions in another manner : as — Party 

 per crofs — per pale — per chief — per pale inclave— per bend 



jiexter per bend finifter — per chevron — barry bendy of 



eighty pieces — paleways of fix pieces — barry of fix pieces 



barry of eight pieces — bendy of fix— cheeky — fufilly, or 



lozengy — pale bendy, or bendy lozengy — barry bendy lo- 

 aengy, or bend lozengy — gyronny — barry lozengy counter- 

 changed — waved of fix pieces — barry nebule of fix pieces — 

 party per fallier — and party per pale in point. See farther 

 under their refpedive articles. 



Counter-quartering a coat, is when the quarters are quartered 

 over again, or fubdividcd each into four. See Counter- 



iiUARTERED. 



There are counter- quartered coats which have twenty or 

 twenty-five quarters. 



Quartering is alfo applied to the partitions or compart- 

 nients themfelves, that is, the feveral coats borne on an 

 efcutcheon, or the feveral divifions made in it, when the arms 

 of feveral families are to be placed on the fame fhield, on ac- 

 count of intermarriages, or the like. 



Colombiere obferves, that thirty-two is the greateft number 



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ufed in France ; but that the Englifh and Germans fome 

 times extend to forty : as a teilimoiiy ot the truth of which' 

 he fays he faw the efcutcheon of the earl of Leiccller, am- 

 balfador txtraordmary in France in the year 1639, divided 

 into the number of forty : and fome, he affirms, do go on to 

 fixty-four feveral coats. 



But a multitude of quarters make a confufion ; and, ac- 

 cordingly, all the writers of armoury exclaim againft it as 

 an abufe. The firil inftance of quartering, ot which we have 

 any account, is faid to be in the arms ot Renatus, king of 

 Sicily, &c. in the year 1435, who quartered the arms or 

 Sicily, Arragon, Jerufalem, &c. 



William Wickly obferves, that fiich quarterings are much 

 more proper for a pedigree, to be looked up in a cheft, and 

 occafionally produced as au evidence tor the clearing or afcer- 

 taining of alliances of families, and titles to lands, &c. than 

 to be borne as a cognizance. 



In blazoning, when the quartering is performed per crofs, 

 the two quarters a-top are numbered the firfl and iecond ; 

 and tliofe at the bottom the third and fourth ; beginnmg to 

 tell on the right fide. When the quartering is by a fattier, 

 &c.the chief and point are the firll and fecond quarters, the 

 right fide the third, the left the iourth. 



Quartering is fometimes alfo ufed for the diftinguifhing 

 of younger brothers from elder. See DiFi erenck. 



QUARTERIZATION, Quartering, part of the 

 puniihment of a traitor, by dividing his body into four 

 quarters. 



" Walfingham, in Ric. II. Auditum et confefl'um tur- 

 pitTima fcelera traftationi, fufpendio, decollationi, exentera- 

 tioni, et quarterizationi adjudicavit." 



QUARTERLY, m Heraldry, a perfon is faid to bear 

 quarterly, when he bears arms quartered. 



The king of Great Britain bears quarterly of four ; in 

 the firii quarter gules, &c. Great Britain ; in the fecond, 

 azure, &c. Ireland, &c. 



QUARTER-MASTER, an officer in the army, whofe 

 bufinefs it ia to look after the quarters of the foldiers ; their 

 clothing, bread, ammunition, firing, &c. Every regiment 

 of foot and artillery has a quarter-maller, and every troop 

 of horfe one, who are only warrant-officers, except in the 

 blues. Whereof there are feveral kinds ; -viz. the 



Quarter-master General, whole bufinefs is to provide 

 good quarters for the whole army. 



Quarter-m.^ster of Foot, he who is to provide quarters 

 for a regiment of foot. 



Quarter-master of Horfe, he who is to provide quar- 

 ters for a troop of horfe. 



Quarter-master, in a Ship, is an inferior officer, ap- 

 pointed by the mafter of a ftiip of war to aiiift the mates in 

 their feveral duties ; as ftowing the ballaft and provifions in 

 the hold, coifing the cables on their platforms, overlooking 

 the fteerage of the (hip, and keeping the time by the watch- 

 glaffes. 



QUARTERN, Quarteron, a diminutive of quart, 

 fignifying a quarter of a pint, as a quart does a quarter of a 

 gallon. 



QUARTIER, in Commerce, a liquid meafure in Ger- 

 many, which, according to a regulation of 17 13, made in 

 Hanover, muft hold alb. of fpring water, and the contents of 

 which are 49 French, or J94- Enghfh cubic inches. A fuder 

 of wine contains 4 exhofts, 6 ahnis, or 15 eimers ; an 

 ahm, 4 ankers, 40 ftubgens, 80 kanncs, 160 quartiers, or 

 320 nolTels. Hence 36 (lubgens, or 144 quartiers, = 37 

 Englifti wine gallons. A fafs ot beer at Lubec contains 

 42 ftubgens, or 168 quartiers. Kelly's Un. Cambift. 



QUARTILE, an afpetl of the planets when they are 

 three figns, or 90 degrees diftant from each other. 



The 



