Practical Manual of Artillery

a good road, transporting it will be an easy thing; and on the contrary, when a piece goes down some slope or hillside, then it needs a strong restraint.

For every wagon of cannon balls, it is necessary to lead it with 4 pairs of horses, and they are loaded with 55 or 60 cannon balls, and other sorts of balls are loaded at a rate corresponding to these, that is, up to three and a half or four thousand per wagon, which pounds are understood to be of 12 ounces.

For the same reason, all other wagons of monitioni munitions/supplies and other things that pertain to the operation are loaded, and they are pulled by 4 pairs of horses, and sometimes more or less, according to what the weather and the place requires, and also according to the need that might occur to march the Camp in haste.

For every 300 horses, a Senior Overseer is paid, who assists the horsemen and commands everyone, whom they call Gilmetre a German term for a Quartermaster or overseer of horses in Germany, with 12 crowns of pay per month.

For every 1500 or 2000 horses, a Barigello a police chief or official in charge of order is needed, with 20 crowns of pay.
For a Lieutenant of this one, 8 crowns of pay per month.

All the offices and officials named above are provided for by the General of the Artillery, and no other supreme official of the Prince must intervene in providing for them, as it is a matter that has been used in armies for many years.

On the manner and form that the General of the Artillery must observe in making the practice and contract of the horses and wagons to conduct the Artillery and munitions, with the masters of these horses. Chap. III.

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WHEN it is necessary for the General of the Artillery to make the contract with the person or persons who obligate themselves to serve in the state of the artillery with some quantity and number of horses, he must always endeavor to make the contract with some man who is principal and wealthy, so that the contract remains inviolable and firm, who obligates himself, and gives security, to sustain and serve throughout the entire enterprise the King or Prince who is lord of it, with a certain number of horses, such as 1500 or 2000, and with as many wagons as will be needed to conduct the munitions. Which master, on the day of the rassegna review/muster, must present before the Generals of the army, that is, both that of the Artillery and the Commissary of the muster, that number of horses that he is obligated to in his articles, and that they all be healthy and strong, and outfitted with all his beautiful and good equipment, that is, with ropes, collars, small yokes, halters, and other things that pertain to the transport of the artillery and other munitions; and with the number of wagons that he is obligated to in his articles, which wagons must be four-wheeled, sound, and well-fastened, and with their 8 horses per wagon, as has been said; which horses all, on the day of the muster, the Commissary of the muster must mark with a red-hot iron, or a brand assigned to him by the General of the Artillery for this effect, so that by that mark he may know them all, and so that the good horses, that is those which he presented on the day of the muster, are not taken from him and sent away, and in place of those good ones, they put other poor and useless horses for the service of the enterprise.

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On the status of the Lord of the Horses. Chap. IIII.

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IT is always the custom in the Imperial and the aforementioned Catholic Majesty's armies to pay the Lord of the Horses for certain officials and ministers of his, of whom some serve for the benefit and utility of the enterprise, and some others for the ornament of the position and the authority of his person.