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naturalis, connected by a curve, the motus mixtus, is sufficiently explained 
by Tig. 7. Pig. 8 shows a gyn. 
Although artillery can scarcely be said to have possessed any organization 
at all on the outbreak of the Great Rebellion, yet the separation of the 
service into the two grand natural divisions of garrison and held artillery 
had made itself felt a full century before. More, in explaining to Wolsey, 
the reasons why Henry VIII. abandoned the idea of besieging Boulogne in 
1523 writes :—“His Highness thinketh that the weteness of the cuntre, 
upon the rivers side, shall not suffre his army to march with Artillery, 
either grose enough for batery, or sufficient for the feld.”* The existence 
of this division, the foundation-stone of all organization of the artillery arm, 
was rather theoretically acquiesced in than practically acknowledged in the 
17th century, and a train of artillery was an indiscriminate jumble of various 
calibres. One gun was allowed for each thousand men of the other arms, 
and as a consequence 30 guns, 9 cannons, 8 demi-cannons, 6 culverings, 
and 7 sakers, or other small guns, were required for an army of 24,000 
infantry, and 6000 cavalry. Bor such a train 1524 horses and 588 carters, 
or wagon-drivers, were necessary. The position of the commander of the 
artillery differed from that of the same officer in a modern army fully as 
much as the guns of the two periods. “ The Generali of the Artillery hath 
alwayes a part of the charge, and when the chief General is absent he is to 
command all the army, and this use I have seen and known to be the 
practice and use of Count Charles de Mansfelt, of Monsieur La Mot, of 
* State Papers. More to Wolsley, Yol. I. p. 137 Quoted in Sir T. Scott’s “ History of the 
Dritish Army.” 
