Recover your Arms.
Half bend your Muskets.
Poise your Muskets.
Shoulder your Muskets.
This Exercise is to be observ'd, as is before laid down in the Exercise of the Musket. The Musketiers upon this, being at Shoulder; and the Pikes that stood recovered falling out with their Right-legs, whereupon the Pikes are brought to their Thighs in their Advance. Then the next is.
Poise your Muskets.
Upon this, the Pike-men with their Left hands must grasp their Pikes over against their Shoulders, after which the Words are,
Order your Arms.
Pikes, to your inside Order.
Lay down your Arms.
Quit your Arms.
To the Right about.
March.
You must observe these, as directed in the Exercise, only over and above, when you are clear of your Arms; you must disperse, and upon the beat of Drum, close ha
stily together with a Huzza, your Swords unsheathed, with their Points upwards. Then further observe the Words of Command, viz.
Return your Swords.
Handle your Arms.
Order your Arms.
Pikes, to your out-side Order.
Advance.
In ordering your Arms, observe you make a little stop before you let the Butt-ends come to the Ground; so that each one may bear you company, and they may fall together at once; and after they are laid down, and quitted, you must stand up together so suddenly, as all your Risings may appear as it were but one Motion.
When you March from your Arms, step Front and Rear at once, with the Left-feet Marching but a little distance.