By Alfred Hutton
This, the second one of Hutton’s books to be reprinted via Naval and army Press (the different is chilly metal: a pragmatic treatise of the sabre) is intensely infrequent, for under three hundred copies have been published. the writer, ex-King’s Dragoon Guards, used to be an said fencing specialist, who made it his enterprise to grasp the historical past of his game in addition to the sensible program of it. the following he appears to be like on the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries, and starts off via taking a look at the two-handed sword. He keeps with a background of the rapier and the dagger, the broadsword and the buckler, spending a lot time on a close background of either improvement and use of those guns. He additionally seems on the perform of battling with dagger and cloak and rapier and cloak, a nearly balletic paintings a lot performed within the 15th century. His subsequent subject appears to be like on the eighteenth century, after facing the transition interval among swordplay and recreation. The plates disguise a number of the phases and routine of fencing, all of that are tailored from modern prints created through the masters of the artwork of the explicit time. In all a truly lucrative remedy of the artwork and its background.
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Make a great oblique pass with your left foot outside his right, envelop his dagger-arm with your cloak, and deliver a thrust or a riverso at his neck. Recover, passing back three or four paces, and take the same guard. 52 3. Lower your cloak and give an opening above, and as he attacks give a mandritto at his hand on the pass. Recover, passing back the right foot. 4. Stand on guard in tierce, with the left foot advanced. Show an opening at your left side by carrying your cloak a little over towards your right, and when he attacks, force his dagger well over to your left, pass forward your right foot, and give either point or a riverso at his face.
Make a great oblique pass with your left foot outside his right, envelop his dagger-arm with your cloak, and deliver a thrust or a riverso at his neck. Recover, passing back three or four paces, and take the same guard. 52 3. Lower your cloak and give an opening above, and as he attacks give a mandritto at his hand on the pass. Recover, passing back the right foot. 4. Stand on guard in tierce, with the left foot advanced. Show an opening at your left side by carrying your cloak a little over towards your right, and when he attacks, force his dagger well over to your left, pass forward your right foot, and give either point or a riverso at his face.
Low Tierce, cut 2. COMBINATION 3. Master Coup de Jarnac Parry Tierce, cut 5. Parry Quarte. Pupil Parry Seconde, cut 1. Low Tierce, cut 2. 47 Chapter V - RAPIER AND CLOAK. IN this exercise the Cloak takes the place, as a defensive weapon, of the buckler or the dagger. It must be turned twice round the left arm in such a manner as to cover the elbow, while the collar is grasped in the left hand the ends are to be passed over the arm so as to hang down in folds on the outside of it, and with these folds (never with the part which rests on the arm) the various attacks are parried (Plate 30-) THROWING THE CLOAK.