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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19256	The prospectiue glasse of vvarre Shevving you a glimpse of vvarres mystery, in her admirable stratagems, policies, wayes; in victualling of an armie, prouiding money to pay souldiers, finding out the enemies purposes, traps, and stratagems: ordering of marches, framing of battails, sundry fights, retreats, and the like, to auoide battell or fight. Furnished with argument to encourage and skill to instruct. By C.E. Warre is a schoole of necesary knowledge.	Cooke, Edward, fl. 1626-1631.	1628 (1628)	STC 5669; ESTC S120766	26,668	55

Horse with Ordnance on the Hils Reare Flanks THE PROSPECTIVE Glasse of VVARRE CHAP. I. After what manner a Commander or Generall should best prouide Victuals and Mouie to content his Souldiers how to finde out the purposes Trapps and Stratagems of his Enemy VIctuals is the Soule of an Army Money but the Sinewes without the first your Army cannot at all subsist without the second but indifferently but with both admirable well That your Army may haue both Soule and Sinewes thereby to subsist long and well prouide for it good store of victuals and money Likewise prye into the wiles and stratagems of the Enemy in time that it may go well with your Army Which that you may well do these precepts following will direct you aright But first of Victuals Victuals consist first in conuenient prouision of them then in safe keeping and preseruing of them then in good distributing or spending or bestowing of them alwayes All which you must carefully execute if you would not willingly taste of want 1. Prouide for victuals before you vndertake the warre for then is the time of best prouision 2. In your warre begun store your selfe with victuals either neere hand or farre off And conduct it with good and strong conuoyes lest the Enemy surprise it 3. In your Townes of warre either without or within haue great store of Milles to grinde corne to sustaine you the better in a seidge And bee sure to looke well vnto them sufficiently to defend them especially those that are without the Towne 4. If you beseidge Townes or Cities you ought to hurle downe all Milles within and without and to cut of the water from them if you cannot keepe them for your owne vse 5. Prouide that such neighbours as dwell neere vnto you may safely bring victuals into your Campe without danger of the Enemy 6. In case of necessity send your Souldiers into their Prouince to abide be relieued with victuals for a time Example Galli being in some distresse of victuals choose the Citie Attella a Citie full of victuals to stay there vntill by their friends they might bee relieued both with victuals and Souldiers In which Citie their Souldiers for a while were largely relieued and freely with or at the charges of the Cittizens 7. Seeke by all meanes to intercept your Enemies victuals and lay seidge to those places from whence their chiefe reliefe of victuals doth come Example The Captaines of Charles the sift in the warres against the Germans lacked victuals somewhat where on the other side the Germans lying in a plaine fertill Country had plenty of victuals vpon the occasion of the aoundance of the Country being large and partly because certaine friendly Cities and Countries lay behinde them on the otherside of the Riuer For the same purpose Charles the Emperour went about for to gaine the Cities standing about the Riuer from them and so the aduantage of the same Riuer with victuals which was a braue act Like this was that of Francis Sforsa who vnderstanding that the Frenchmen or Army at Nouaro had great comfort of victuals from Biagrassa he beseidged that Towne suddenly tooke it by which occasion hee tooke from them their chiefe victuals And shortly after the French Army was faine to remoue 8. If you are for to iourney towards the warres iourney in a plentifull Country and which hath in long time beene in peace Thus did the French King Charles the eight when he came to the Citie of Ast 9. Also you are to iourney in your Confederates Country and who vpon very great occasion is to desire your society for such will ayde you liberally This was likewise practised by Charles the eight when he inuaded Naples For other wayes of getting of victuals and preseruing them so got peruse these presedents 10. Some Kings Captaines and Generals which haue either taken or saued some Citie which was likely to be lost haue caused their Souldiers to be releiued of victuals in the same in the houses of them which were their Enemies 11. Some haue vsed for to send certaine Captaines of Souldiers into other Cities for to ease the present spending in the place where they were 12. Some haue vsed to send all the poore and impotent people out of their Citie so beseidged that their victuals might last the longer 13. Some would suffer none either to returne or to haue reliefe of victuals Which vnreasonable hard vsage needed not if Gouernors would before hand and before need prepare both for abundance of victuals or else withall take order for the moderate spending of their victuals For negligence of prouision of victuals in time and mispending or else lacke of good keeping or ordering them which you haue should be well seene vnto I pretermit this And I fall vpon the prouision of money for the payment of your Souldiers wages Hauing money sufficient it is best to pay your Souldiers beforehand or monthly 1. If you be bare of money pay some wages and procure that the Souldiers may haue victuals good cheape all the while you lacke money or imploy them where continuall spoyle may be had 2. If you haue little money pay a part of that openly in the hands of such souldiers as are most likely to make a Mutiny 3. Some Generals when as their souldiers haue beene ready to reuoult or mutiny for lacke of pay haue straight way brought them to the battell for this purpose if victory happened on their side they would pay their souldiers of the spoyle of their Enemies or else if their Army were ouerthrowne then they should be cleerely and well discharged of the grieuous and dangerous complaint 4. Some haue caused the Cittizens of Cities to receiue souldiers into their houses for to giue vnto them meate drinke and lodging and to giue wages vnto the same souldiers Thus did Anthony de Leua at Millan This was he that forbad all his Cittizens for to eate any bread but onely such as should bee bought of him For which purpose he appointed in euery streete certaine houses where bread should be sold at what price he lusted and none durst do the contrary By which kinde of means he got into his hands all such kinde of money as any Citizen of Millan had in his Chests or else could make or reserue by any meanes or wayes with which he payd his souldiers This was his way but some haue found other wayes besides these 5. Some Generals haue gaged all their plate and Iewels vnto rich monyed men to pay their souldiers 6. Some Kings haue borrowed all the Iewels and ornaments of certaine great Ladies or Estates which were their friends and kinsmen and haue pawned the same to Vsurers for to pay their souldiers 7. Borrow largely of your Confederates money who seeketh your society in his warres for his speciall purpose The French King Charles the 8. could do this passing well 8. Seeke of such a Confederate any other ayde or