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A10698	Vox militis foreshewing what perils are procured where the people of this, or any other kingdome liue without regard of marshall discipline, especially when they stand and behold their friends in apparent danger, and almost subuerted by there enemies vniust persecution, and yet with hold their helping hand and assistance. Diuided into two parts, the first manifesting for what causes princes may enter into warre, and how necessary and vsuall it is, drawne from the actions of the Prince of Orange. The second discourseth of warre, souldiers, and the time when it is conuenient: collected out of the heroicall examples of Count Mansfield. ... Dedicated to Count Mansfield, and the honourable Councell of Warre.	Marcelline, George.; Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617. Allarme to England.	1625 (1625)	STC 20980; ESTC S115890	45,092	69

destruction then in the time of the warres which the Romanes had with her for whilest they had enemies in Affticke they knew not what vices meant at Rome Yet is it not my drift to preferre Warres before Peace but to intimate that as Peace is the great blessing of God so Warres vndertaken vpon due consideration doe nothing offend him and although in the time of peace there is plentie of vice yet notwithstanding it is not absolutely to be condemned so though in the Warres there be many outrages committed yet it is not wholly therefore to be neglected the Sunne shining vpon some pleasant Garden makes the flowres haue a more fragrant and delightfull smell but displaying his most radiant beames vpon a dunghill maketh the stinke greater and the sent more noy some The sicke mans stomacke turneth all his meate into bad humors Peace may be prosperous and Warre lawfull yet both of them may be abused Moreouer if I should speake of the particular commodities that seuerall countries haue reaped by warres I could be infinite and to the intent I may not range farre abrode for example let thy consideration make but a step into our neighbouring nations and let vs looke into the Low Countries these you shall see the Prince of Orange that treasury of all vertue and goodnesse though with meane forces withstanding a mighty nation that his libertie might not be infringed of his country iniured neither hath he maintained his owne case only valiantly but hath afforded his neighbouring friends aide and assistance Let Spaine speake how often she hath receiued a repulse and a non visitauit from him how often in vaine shee hath attempted his ouerthrow but be like a well built fort hath valiantly withstood all their assaults and though he hath happily beene moued yet could not be remoued by their attempts whereby as all men sufficiently vnderstand hee is now growne potent and powerfull rich and renowned whereas on the contrary if Asse-like he would haue borne the king of Spaines heauy burthen submitted to the yoke of his obedience he had lost his libertie nouer attained the honor with which his name is now crowned for he remaineth as a mirrour and terrour to all nations for as his Excellency did iustly and with due consideration vndertake so hee hath nobly and with true valour maintained his quarrell against the King of Spaine Surely an act well beseeming so worthy and noble a Prince who as hee should not be like a raw wound ouer-apprehensiue of iniuries so he should be vnlike dead flesh not too senslesse of wrongs done vnto the one shewes folly the other fea●e Neither would it ill befeeme any Potentate to treade in the steps of so excellent a Prince and not so much to respect peace as to neglect a iust occasion of warre for doth it stand with reason or religion that a Prince hauing sufficient power to make resistance to an open enemy should expose his open brest to his threatning sword nay when he sees he hath already cut off some of his lims to trust him with his whole body Hath he any great good meaning to the tree that hackes and hewes downe the branches doth he beare any good affection to the father that striueth to iniure the child or doth not he that oppresseth the child expresse his hatred to the father can one which loathes the effect loue the cause will not hee which cannot tollerate the heate labour to quench the fire yes surely and it was formerly lawfull for Kings to seeke to depose a Tyrant though he had no interest in those which were iniured Then how much more forcible a motiue hath hee if his posteritie bee abused and he be wounded in his owne bowels Surely his sword ought not to rest in his sheath when he hath such iust cause to draw it but his angry canons to thunder in the eares of his enemies and tell them they haue iniured him And is not this the cause of our Soueraigne if euer Prince had iust cause of warre it is he for they haue exiled out of his inheritance the Palsgraue a Prince so hopefull they haue layd wast his countrey which was the Paradise of the world a land so fruitfull they doe vniustly vsurpe his Diadem they haue falsely promised the restoring of it when as the pulses of their promises did not beat according to the motion of their hearts Certes it did not beseeme Princely pietie in them to offer neither doth it consent with kingly courage in him to suffer that me thinkes this voyce of the Souldier is but as an echo to the voyce of heauen which sayes the cause is iust and counselleth all Christan Protestant Princes ioyntly to assume armes to driue this Boare out of the Vineyard and to re-seate this royall Prince in his Throne and dignitie Heare oh you braue English Spirits which once were admired I had almost sayd adored for your valour when you had imployment how can you any longer desist from the pursuit of honour in so iust a cause doe you not long to fight for the safetie of a limme nay the halfe part of your Soueraigne But why should I vse these needlesse perswasions or spurre a free horse I dare say you are easily intreated nay hardly perswaded from it and you are as restlesse being staued from the combat as the Stone violently detained from the Center Neuer was Beare robbed of her whelpes more angrie of reuenge then you of this enterprise it may be indeed there bee some Spanish English as they terme them who are neither true to God their King or countrey which haue not the least drop of loyall blood lodged in their hearts that would be somewhat vnwilling to act a part in this matter perhaps likewise there be others who be guilty of so little valour that they had rather liue like drones in this hiue of our commonwealth and be loitring lubbers at home then any waies to offer there seruice for their Soueraignes welfare or spend a dram nay a drop of blood in the defence of the truth who are very well content to enioy the warmth they haue vnder the wings of their Soueraigne but will not do any seruice in the requital of this benefit being not much vnlike to vngratefull curs which will fawne vpon their master so long as he feeds them but when hee hath any futther imployments for them they bid him adue and hasten to their kennels So these men or rather beasts indeeed that are borne bred fostered sed in their countrey and yet can suffer an indignitie done to their Prince and when their countrey standeth in need of their aid or assistance to slip their coller come to combat in the defence of it as willingly as Bears to the stake that argueth an vngratefull mind free from all vertue as well as vallour and indeed are no more worthy to enioy the commodities and benefits of their countrey then a Swine deserues a pearle But as Plutarque

not so denie warre as to neglect our owne welfare And one saith no lesse pithily then prettily Bellum bello susceptum bellum est Warres well vndertaken are good and lawfull for as we must be cautelous not vpon euery light occasion to vndertake it so wee must not be cowards vpon iust cause to refuse it for both of them are the extreames of fortitude as well a rash attempt as a base refusall From hence Demosthenes that King of Orators in a inuectiue Oration against King Philip for his insatiable ambitious desire of gonernement as he already had besieged the Olinthians vpon the conquest of whom he had a free passage into Athens which to preuent Demosthenes exhorts them not onely to aide the Olinthians but also to raise an Army to send into Macedonia that so being wounded at home hee might haue the lesse liberty to hurt abroad alleaging that aide to their Neighbours is very requisite since as their safety was founded vpon their good successe for whosoeuer withdraweth his helping hand when as his neighbours house is on fire may want assistance to quench his owne according to that old and vsuall verse I am mea res agitur paries cum proximus audet It is my case so when the next walles burned either for the subuersion of any tyrant which doth wrongfully vsurpe more by might then right any others dominions in so much that in former times it was held a thing conuenient in former times that if any Prince did tyrannically abuse any of his Subiects either with cruelty murther rape rauine or such like oppressions wherein he might offer his subiects opprobrious iniurie the which in regard they cannot redresse themselues for what subiect dares lift vp his hand against Gods Annointed or to stand vp in Armes against his Soueraigne it was requisite that the next adioyning Prince who was a borderer vpon the confines of his Dominions should assume armes against him to chastise correct and reforme so great enormities to the end that the name of a King might not seeme odious and be hatefull vnto the people as was Nero Heligabulus Dionysius and too many others of that barbarous disposition and horrid crueltie From whence he purchased vnto himselfe such an immortall name and neuer dying memory as they did diefie him for vilefying such monsters and exercising his prowesse vpon such tyrants But for the better satisfaction of those whose precise consciences will not allow any Warres or dissentions to keepe any harmonicall consent either with goodnesse or godlinesse giue but an attentiue and patient eare vnto the words of Hieronymus Osorius as they be recorded and written in his Booke entituled True Christian Nobility Neither hath this allowance of Wartes onely approbation from him but is receiued as a lawfull practise by the common consent of the most or at least the best part of Doctors Diuine Plato extolleth this art of Armes and commandeth that children should be instructed in it so soone as they came to ability of bodie or any aptitude to discharge the Offices of Souldiers and it was Cyrus his opinion that it was as necessary as agriculture or husbrandy neither is it denyed by Augustine and Bernards those two famous Fathers The Romanes also who were of matchlesse worth in marshall affaires being no lesse to be admited for their carriage abroade then for their counsell at home appointed for their chiefe Commanders two Consuls the one to determine City affaires the other to be occupied in marshall discipline being assured that they could neuer haue peace within their walles except they had wartes abroade to omit the iudgement of Hipodam us Milesius a man so expert in all learning who thought it conuenient for that City or Countrey which coueted quietnesse and sought for safetie to diuide their people into three parts the one of which were to be appointed to be Artificers the other for Husbandry and the third sort set apart to bee imployed in martiall exercises Indeede peace is a precious pearle and is chiefly to be desired but oftentimes Warres must be performed that peace may be maintained euen like a shippe which being in her quiet Harbour is constrained to loose Anchor and to seeke for safety in the vaste and raging Sea if a man cannot attaine his right without violence hee may lawfully take vp Armes and get it by force for some men are like a nettle the more kindly they vse them the worse they will sting them the fairer they intreate them the fouler they intertaine them Salomon likewise prescribeth a time for peace and a time for Warre a day of mirth and a day of mourning and therefore to vse time when oceasion serueth is a maine pont of principall wisedome and to assume Armes vpon due premeditation not incensiderately to enter into conslict and skirmish for that faucurs of sauage beastlinesse and not of sage humanitie but when time permitteth and necessitie requireth then on with your Armour fight manfully preferring an happie and honourable death before a disgracefull and miserable death There is a double kinde of Iniustice the one in offering the other in suffering Iniustice the one is actiuely the other passiuely vniust wittingly to offend against a neighbour is a sinne against our brother and wilfully to beare an iniury is an offence against ones selfe and therefore I will not be a foe to my Neighbour in wronging of him neither will I bee an enemy to my selfe in permitting him to offend me when I am of ability to defend my selfe But me thinkes I heare some obiect against the former resolution saying that Truth it selfe hath prohibited the rendring of euill for euill to any man and hath inioyned that if one hath receiued a blow of one eare hee ought to turne the other It is true that he hath said I beleeue that vengeance is the Lords and hee will repay it yet notwithstanding a Christian doth not goe about to reuenge it as it is an iniury done to himselfe but as an offence committed against God who hath forbidden all iniustice and commanded to giue vnto Caesar that which belongeth vnto Caesar and I trust that no man will be so foolishly opinionated that when he is oppressed by any Tyrant should willingly surrender into his hands his possessions his Crowne and Signiory or that it should not be a legall honest course and not dissentane either from reason or religion for a Prince to defend and maintaine his right or that it should not bee lawfull for him to warre vpon him either for it in the defence of true Religion or the maintenance of their freedome and liberty as the Athenians against King Philip. And howsoeuer in this our Pilgrimage fortitudes estimation is in the wayne yet in ancient times prowesse was of such price and valour of so great accompt as no glory was counted so great no renowne so honourable as that which hath beene wonne in the field by the force of martiall prowesse and to make men more greedy

timber for ships which is all made hauocke on onely about those yron mils In the end comes M. Merchant who cares not for his owne priuate gaine what mischiefe he worketh to his Countrey or sometimes some olde bruised souldier that hath serued the Queene in her warres about London Lambeth Marshes or the out sles of Islington all the dayes of his life and in respect of his good seruice must get a cōmission to sell two or three hundred pieces of this yron Ordnance out of the Realme that between M. Merchant and him I dare vndertake there is thrice as much Ordinance sold out of the Realme as is within the Realme and that some of our Merchants haue felt For John the Frenchman hath been at Host with some of their ships and Dauy Drunkard of Flushing and his fellowes haue not been behind and these with other mo were not able to goe so strongly to the Sea were it not that they were furnished with our English Ordnance The Spaniards and Portugals haue some pretty store of it In France there is Rochel Rosco S. Mallous and Deepe their ships be generally as well surnished with our Ordnance as any Merchants ships in the Thames The mighty Hound of D●nkerke and the rest of the Beagles that were of her consorts God knowes had beene able to haue made but a slender cry when they had come to chase had it not beene for our English barkers The other parts of Flanders Zeland and Holland both vpon the walles of their Townes and also in their shipping are furnisht with the like I haue seene euery streete in Flushing lye as full of English Ordnance as if it had beene the Tower Wharfe of London To be short there are diuers Townes in East Freesland with Emden Hambrough Denmarke Danske Lubecke Rye Reuell Swethen with diuers other Cities and Townes of those East parts that she is but a very meane Hulke appertaining to any of these places which hath lesse then a dozen or sixteene peeces of our English Ordnance in her Such hath beene the carelesnesse of this our peaceable time that it hath not onely made vs weake by our owne neglecting the feates of armes but also with our owne artillerie and our warrelike munitions we haue made such strong as be our enemies as I feare we shall finde if they were at quietnes amongst themselues And thus once againe I can wish that such consideration might be had of the time that is present as in the time that is to come we should not haue cause to rue it And here although I know my skill will not serue me nor my occasion at this time may well permit me to speake of Martall discipline how farre it is decayed from the first ordidinance and institution yet gentle Reader not doubting but thou wilt beare with me as well for the want of the one as for the necessitie of the other I will aduenture to speake some thing thereo We doe find in holy Scriptures and that in seuerall places both in the bookes of Moses in the booke of Josua and others where they haue vsed no litle regard as well in chusing of their captaines leaders and conductors as also in their prescribing lawes and disciplines of warre which were many times appointed by the almightie God himselfe But let vs peruse the examples of the Romans which of all other people did most exceed as well for the greatnes of their glory as in all their other martial actions and we shall find that they had not only consideration to the equitie of their cause for the which they would enter into wars as by these words of Tully in his 1. book of Offices may better appeare And the iustice of warre is most sincerely described in the Phesiall Law of the people of Rome whereby for things in claime is moued or else proclaimea before and bidden by desiance c. But also they had as great regard to maintaine their quarrels with like equitie and iustice not suffering their captaines to enter into actions of treason or trecherie where their wars were al together arreared vpon causes of honestie as by examples they did plainly shew When king Pyrrhus vnprouoked had moued wars against the Romans and Timochares whose sonne was yeoman for the mouth to the king promised to Fabrieius then being Consull to slay king Pyrrhus which thing being reported to the Senat they presently warned king Pyrrhus to beware of such treasons saying The Romans maintained their warres with armes and not by treason or trechery Likewise when Lucius Pius in a banquet that he made had filled the people of Samaria full of wine and made them so drunke that yeelded themselues subiect to Rome for which exploit Lucius Pius at his returne required triumph But the Senators vnderstanding the manner of his fact caused him openly to be beheaded and a slanderous Epitaph set vpon his graue Neither would they suffer that souldier which amongst other being taken by Hannibal and licenced vpon his oath to deprrt conditionally that he should either make returne or else send his ransome the souldier with others of his companions being departed the campe of Hannibal and licenced vpon his oath to depart conditionally that he should either make returne or else send his ransome the souldier with others of his companions being departed the campe of Hannibal feigned an arrand back againe for something that he had forgotten and thus comming to Rome did thinke himselfe discharged of his oath but the Senate allowing of no such d●ceit to ●evsed made a decree that the same Souidier should be carried pinioned to Hannibal And ten other that in like manner were dismissed by Hannibal vpon their oth were sessed at a yeerely fine as long as any of them did liue for being forsworne So nobly were the Romans disposed and so honourably minded that no act was allowed of amongst them seemed it neuer so profitable wherin was found either fraude or deceit And this magnificence gate them condigne commendations of their very enemies and betweene whom there had beene mortall hostilitie and many times was of greater effect to subdue them then huge or mighty armies And as they did excell in the excellency of these vertues iustice and equity to such as were able to stand in armes against them so likewyse they did surmount in humanity and curtesie and in ministring of comfort to such as they had already vanquished and subdued as by no example may be better expressed then by a letter written by Marcus Aurelius Emperour of Rome to Popilio captaine of the Parthies a notable discourse for captaines to peruse and foloweth in this manner I cannot denie the glory I haue gained by this battell neither may J hide the perplexitie I feele for thy present misfortune for noble mindes are bound to shew no lesse compassion to such as are subdued then to expresse toy and gladnesse with those that are victors Thou being the chiefe of the Parthies didest shew great courage