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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45383	The old English officer, being a necessary looking-glass for a Christian army, or, A fit companion for young souldiers wherein you may behold a perfect, easy, and speedy path to obtain the exercise and discipline of foot, and make soldiers fit for present service ... : with plain directions and good instructions out of sacred and moral histories of worthy commanders, how they should behave themselves in time of peace and war ... / written by Charles Hammond ...	Hammond, Charles, 17th cent.	1679 (1679)	Wing H497; ESTC R10512	25,488	62

of much Gameing a thing that was not in use in God's Host and good it we● that it were less in use in our Camp for God is dishonoured by Swearing monys wasted and many evils happen thereupon I have heard that the Spaniard in time of Service doth banish unlawful games in the Seige of Poytiers the Admiral caused a certain Ensign to be hanged for playing at cards while his company did watch in some peril many Exercises should be appointed them and such as can Read to get Histories of War and other good books to read and discourse thereof Thus the mind and body will be well imployed it may be some Soldiers would be so well Exercised if there were Commanders like Caesar who read much and did write his own wars or like Pirrhus the famous Martialist in his time who wrote many books and as Hanibal in whose Tents were found many books which he studied brave generous spirits should be delighted in either to read or hear read the Acts of valiant Warriers and scorn base Play and childi●h games 5. Is Cowardliness and flying out of the Host to the Enemy Cowardliness when a Soldier dare not for fear perform his charge Cowards God sent out of his Camp when he sent his to war and so did Maccabeus Appius Claudius did behead those Soldiers that throwing down their Arms fled from their Enemies Licurgus made a Law amongst the Spartans That no man should return home that turned his back upon his Enemy Caesar put certain Ensigns from their places because they lost their ground in an Encounter with Pompey at Dirrbachium The Coward doth not only help the Enemy but dishartens his friends The Lacedemonian women would deliver Shields to their Sons exhorting them to war either to bring them again or to dye valiently there was among them Damatria who hearing that her son had not fought like a Lacedemonian when he came slew him so much did women there detest a cowardly spirit flying away out of the Host to the Enemy is worthy severe punishment such base and treacherous spirits amongst all the Soldiers in Israel I never read of the Romans punished such with death Caius Matienus coming but home from the Army in Spain without leave was beaten under a Gibbe● and sold for one piece of money to signify the base esteem of such a Fugitive 6. And last is Murder Theft Filching Rapine Robery and Sacriledge the killing of one another God gave a very strict charge against it Joab the General being guilty must dye for it even at the Al●ar 1 Kings 2.30.31 Captains may not like rash-braind and bloody men disorderly kill Soldiers he that shall do so among the Spaniards I have read dieth for it Q●arrels and Challenges thereupon with acceptances have been the loss of many lives unworthily hereby Princes lose their Subjects the Army weakned and the Enemy thereby advantaged Soldiers lives should be pretious one to another their blood should be spilt in the Public● cause against the Enemy not in private qua●rels no if a man put the lye upon another Jehu a right valiant Captain mar●hing ●uriously did not quarrel with the Captains in his Company when they said it was false which he spoke so putting the lye upon him Jeremiah said it was false which was a lye to a Captain of the Ward Gedeliah put the lye upon Johanan a Captain a high and proud spirited man and valiant too yet none of these offerd to any the stab nor did beast-like more than man-like rush upon one another and kill-one the other these quarrelsome fellows are not ever the best men drunkenness who●eing swearing and no doubt forswearing are no marks of disgrace o them but the tearm Lye I must confess is a ●r●voking word and cowards will use it to provoke a patient yet a good spirited man and found so when they try him or before the face of an Enemy away wi●h these delusions of Sathan you that are truly valiant and right Christian Souldiers suffer not your selves to be transported with this conceited disgrace to seek Revenge and so be guilty of blood a crying sin before God Now for Theft also God punisheth Acans theft yet these are too common with Soldiers for many base fellows fitter for the Jayl ye the Gallows than the wars are no sooner enterd into Service but are bold to lay hands upon other mens goods which they carry away with many a bitter curse the curse is upon the thief and the swearer who also bringeth a curse upon others as Achan did that one thief caused the overthrow of the Army what evil then will a multitude of thieves do in an Host Aurelianus the Emperor would not suffer his Soldiers to take a Pullet or chicken from countrey people his friends Tiberius made one of his guard to be put to death for taking a Peacock out of a mans yard Tamberlain caused a Soldier to be slain for taking a poor womans milk and some cheese and not paying for it Pescenius Niger would have put to death divers Soldiers met together ●easting themselves with that they had stollen but through intreaty their lives was saved yet they were punished and their punishment was to lye in Tents during the war without fire to live only with bread and water and to make restitution to the Husbandmen and the reason given to this severity because such acts did tend to Rebellion Aurelius writes an Epistle to Soldiers to keep their hands from other mens goods but theft is not only to be restrained in Soldiers but also in Captains and Officers which they may many wa●es commit by robbing poor Soldiers of their pay Caesar was severe against this villany so as two of his Captains of horse Roscillus and Aegus having defrauded Souldiers of their Pay fled to the Enemy as soon as they heard that Caesar had notice of it it s an indelible base character of infamy saith one to defraud a poor Soldier of his due Likewise in taking from a Soldier his weapon or horse Theophilus the Emperour of the East banished a Commander out of in s Dominion for taking a Soldiers horse per force from him for want whereof he was afterwards stain in battel and withal bestowed the Commanders possession upon the Soldiers widdow albeit that Captain had bestowed the horse upon the Emperour himself unwitting to him till the widdow claim'd him as the Emperor rode on him Of Captains abusing poor soldiers read Sr. Tobi●s Smiths Epistle to the Nobility of England as Captains and Officers may not wrong soldiers so soldiers may not rob one another Modestina judg'd him worthy of death that stole his fellows 〈◊〉 besides great care must be had that soldiers do no spoyl nor rob such by whom they are permitted to pass by peaceably nor such as be Victuallers of the Camp such must be suffered to go and come very securely the Army of the Prince of Aurange besieging Florence had like to have been famished through the