"Instructions for Mr Richard King Engineer appointed to attend the
Traine of Artillery in Holland under the Command of Coll Holcraft
Blood.
"You are to use your utmost Endeavours to improve your Knowledge in
all things belonging to an Engineer, and to render your Self capable
in all respects for her Majesties Service in that Art, to be well
Skill'd in the Mathematicks, particularly in Stereometry, Altemetry,
and Geodesie, to take Distances Hights Depths Surveys of Land
Measures, of Solid Bodys, and to cut any part of Ground to a
Proportion given, to be well skilled in all manner of ffoundations,
in the Scantlings of all Timber and Stone, and of their severall
Natures, and to be perfect in Architecture Civill and Military, and
to have always by you the Descriptions or Modells of all manner of
Engines usefull in ffortifications or Sieges, to draw and designe
the Scituation of any Place their due Prospects Uprights and
Perspective, to know exactly the Rates of all Materialls for
Building of Fortifications, thereby to hudge of any Estimates
propos'd to you to examine. Given at the Office of her Majesties
Ordnance under our Hands and Seale of the said Office this Fourth
Day of Aprill 1704."
Royal Archives, King Papers I(i)/2.
Stu.
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