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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13122	1582. Ianuarij decimus. The pathwaie to martiall discipline Now newly imprinted, and deuided into three bookes. Wherevnto is added the order and vse of the Spaniards in their martiall affaires: which copie was lately found in the fort in Ireland, where the Spaniards and Italians had fortified themselues. The first booke: entreateth of the offices from the highest to the lowest, with the lawes of the field, arming, mustering, and training of souldiers. The second boore [sic]: entreateth of sundrie proportions and training of caleeuers, and how to bring bowes to a great perfection of seruice: also how to march with a campe royall: with diuers tables annexed for the present making of your battells, as otherwise to know how many paces they require in their march & battels from 500. to 10000. The third booke: comprehendeth the very right order of the Spaniards, how to traine, march, and encampe, with diuers tables therein contained.; Pathwaie to martiall discipline	Styward, Thomas.; Gutierrez de la Vega, Luis, b. ca. 1509. De re militari. English. aut; Lichefield, Nicholas.	1582 (1582)	STC 23414; ESTC S117930	83,311	166

that hee was forewarned that whatsoeuer is to be done by them may be done in their course and order thereby to auoyde all brawles and iarres which myght happen amongest Officers euerie man knowing what appertaineth to his charge When the face of the Battaile must bée turned hee muste giue warning that euerie manne turne his face and not his Weapons that there doe no noise arise in such cases And this may be done best and most readilie if euerie souldier kéepe the point of his weapon in his hande which doth giue a glorious shew and besides that doth make them readie to lay on their shoulders againe if they haue cause to march againe at length and he shall giue order whē the army remouing do come to any straight passage or other discommodious place which may break their order that euerie ranke doe passe after another and when they he beyond y e straight that then they place them in order againe which being obserued in euerie rank they may presently be in some order as they were before the readier to be brought to the formes squares before rehearsed And when anie charge or commandement is to be giuen see it set and ordeined in the Rereward and when there is nothing to bee done hee shall raise the armie Hée shal likewise commaund that euerie Ensigne march with his owne companie to the end when they come to be incamped they may the easiliar be brought to their lodging appointed for them Of the electing and office of the foure Corporals of the fields GReat regard woulde be had to the choosing of these as well for their calling yeares and valiantnesse as otherwise for their experience lenitie and wisedome Whereby these Warlike affaires may be the readier and sooner executed otherwise it may be preiudiciall to the whole Armie These be vnder the Sergeant generall to appoint set order and make battaile and battailes and and to guide euerie particular personne therein according to their degree and office and as the necessitie of the same shall require to instruct and reforme whose commaundementes all Captaines and Souldiers with their Officers must obeie But in march approch camizado skirmish retraite watch warde or what other seruice by them shal be commanded whose authoritie likewise is such as if any resist they shall by the Prouost matiall be punished as rebels of what calling or degrée soeuer they be Two of these are appointed to the placing and ordering of shot and the other two for the embatteling of the pikes and bile who according to their worthinesse if death happeneth are to succeed the great Sergeant or Sergeant maior Of the warlike counsell and their oathes SUch must by the Generall of the armie be appointed and chosen twelue honest wise graue men the which saide twelue he shall appoint to bee his iudges and determiners in all martiall discipline and correction His choise is to bee made of Captaines or otherwise at his pleasure so hee bee of staied iudgement and of honest sobrietie The which said iudges being is elected and chosen shall haue their wages accordingly appointed them who except in great extremitie shall bee watch frée These shall sweare and protest solemnitie by the almightie God vnto the saide Generall that they will serue the Prince by the moneth in that p●●●● which they are chosen and called to that they wil seriusly faithful obedient and dutiful vnto the Generall in all néedfull and lawfull affaires and at al times vprightly indifferently to iudge all causes comming before them to bée obedient to the commandements of the Generall standing with equitie and the lawes of the fielde that they will to the vttermost power indeuour them selues to giue counsaile and aduise to see Generall to the well-fare and commoditie of the Prince and his subiects and iustly to iudge the rich as the póore not regarding friendship kindred or any other corrupting cause which may lead affection to the hinderance of Iustice but to their knowledge to minister equitie according to the tenour of the lawes as they wil that God helpe them at the last dreadful day of iudgement Also that in mustering they doe diligently foresée to their vttermost power that the prince their maister be not deceiued in giuing double paie to such as are not worthie and that they shall also deliuer the names of the souldiers vnto the Generall as they mustered them with a note of their aloweance and wages vnder their hands and seales faithfully without anie deceipt Of the othes that euerie officer ought to take of what Office so euer he be Of the Pretor THe Pretor shall take his oath giuen him by the Generall who shall sweare by almightie God that whatsoeuer he shall iudge ordaine or determine in court or out of court that he shall kéepe it close and secret to his liues end and that he shall bee true and iust to the Lords and that he shall execute iustice to his vttermost power and that he shall not during the warres take anie gift of any man for any matter in controuersie to be tried before him but shall vse indifferent iustice to all men without respect of persons friendship or malice as God shal help him at the dredfull daie of iudgement Of the Prouost Martiall HIs oath is likewise giuen by the Generall that these points whereof doe consist herein that hée shall sée all faultes duelie and according to the lawes punished in al offenders without regard or respectt of persons That hée shall in the market place set vp a paire of gallowes both for the terrour of the wicked as for execution vpon them that offend the lawes Also that he shall set on all victuals brought to the market a reasonable price that the seller and the buier may reasonably liue by it And that he exact nothing beyond his duetie of anie man that he neither vse extortion or briberie that hee let no prisoner taken of the enemie or offendour otherwise to his witting escape with other Articles conteined in his office at the discretion of y e Generall the which he must bée sworne vnto Of the master of the watch HIS oath is to be true and iust in his office and nightly to attende vpon the Generall to receiue the watch word the which at the setting of the watch hee shall secretly deliuer vnto the Captaines Hée shall diuers times proue the watch as well to see if they sleepe not and such as hee findeth in fault to accuse them to the higher officers who ought to appoint their punishment according to the tenour of the Articles otherwise appertaineth vnto his office at the discretion of the Generall of the armie Of the chiefe Purueiour of the victuals HIS oath is to bee true and iust in his office and not to bee slacke anie time in procuring in his office good fit and wholesome victualles as well for those souldiers in extraordinarie as for those which are in ordinary seruice prest not to