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OLD SWORD-PLAY

ALFRED HUTTON

LATE CAPT. KING'S DRAGOON GUARDS

Author of “Cold steel,” “Fixed Bayonets,” “The Swordsman,” etc.

CONTAINING

FIFTY-SEVEN PLATES OF TYPICAL EXAMPLES

AFTER MAROZZO, DI GRASSI, THIBAULT, ALFIERI, DE LA TOUCHE, DE LIANCOUR, ANGELO, WIMSCHNER, ETC.

AND A

PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR

Originally Published by

LONDON: H. GREVEL & CO.

NEW YORK: B. WESTERMANN & CO.

1892

A Note on this Transcription

This transcription into digital form attempts to remain true to the original edition while

reformatting the text and images into a more modern and readable format that is more suitable for

digital representation. The artwork within has been scanned at 600dpi and digitally manipulated

for maximum readability and clarity. The text was scanned and transcribe first using OCR

technology and finally by a human editor. Every attempt has been made to ensure the text reads

like the original. There are some minor format changes, especially to the tables contained within,

to make them more readable and easier to represent in a digital document.

Why the Transcription?

Originally, I thought to transcribe a number of the ancient Fencing Masters works and to

publish them commercially, making them available to scholars of the sword throughout the world.

But upon reflection, "information wants to be free", these are not my intellectual property, and the

comparatively minor effort that I have put into the transcription, pales when compared to the

original authors efforts (considering their lack of word processors, spell checkers, printers, etc…).

As a result, I am releasing this work in its electronic form for scholars of the sword to use

throughout the world.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTION. ......................................................................................................................1

CHAPTER II - THE TWO-HAND SWORD......................................................................................................3

TO SALUTE....................................................................................................................................................3

GUARDS. ........................................................................................................................................................4

THE CUTS. .....................................................................................................................................................4

THE MOULINETS. .........................................................................................................................................4

THE PARRIES.................................................................................................................................................6

COMBINATIONS. ..........................................................................................................................................6

CHAPTER III - RAPIER AND DAGGER......................................................................................................... 17

THE GUARDS............................................................................................................................................... 18

THE THRUSTS. ............................................................................................................................................ 22

FEINTS. ........................................................................................................................................................ 22

THE PARRIES............................................................................................................................................... 22

COMBINATIONS ......................................................................................................................................... 22

M ASTER .......................................................................................................................................................... 23

CHAPTER IV - BROADSWORD AND BUCKLER......................................................................................... 29

THE GUARD................................................................................................................................................. 29

THE PROGRESSIONS OF MAROZZO. ........................................................................................................ 32

THE ATTACK,.............................................................................................................................................. 46

PARRIES. ...................................................................................................................................................... 46

COMBINATIONS. ........................................................................................................................................ 47

CHAPTER V - RAPIER AND CLOAK. ............................................................................................................ 48

THROWING THE CLOAK............................................................................................................................ 48

CHAPTER VI - DAGGER AND CLOAK. .......................................................................................................... 52

CHAPTER VII - THE CASE OF RAPIERS. ................................................................................................... 55

THE PARRIES............................................................................................................................................... 55

CHAPTER VIII - THE TRANSITION PERIOD. ............................................................................................... 62

SEIZURE OF BOTH SWORD AND PERSON............................................................................................... 66

CHAPTER IX - THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ............................................................................................. 72

THE DISARMS BY SEIZING THE SWORD. ...............................................................................................74

PREFACE.

THE ensuing lessons on “Old Sword-Play” have been compiled from the

works of various author of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth

centuries; and it has been my intention so to arrange them as to make

the antique methods accessible to the student without the labour of

searching the pages of books in various languages, many of which are

very difficult to procure, and much more so to understand. There are

those who affect to ridicule the study of obsolete weapons, alleging that

it is of no practical use ; everything, however, is useful to the Art of

Fence which tends to create an interest in it, and certain it is that such

contests as “Rapier and Dagger,” “Two hand Sword,” or “Broadsword

and Handbuckler,” are a very great embellishment to the somewhat

monotonous proceedings of the ordinary “assault of arms.”

The Combinations will be found extremely useful as forms of “set play”

for combats on the dramatic stage.

I presuppose that, before turning his attention to the swordsmanship of

bygone centuries, our student will have made himself reasonably

proficient in the use of the modern arms-the foil and the sabre-under the

tuition of some competent master.

ALFRED HUTTON.

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