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A14255	The sergeant maior A dialogue of the office of a sergeant maior. VVritten in Spanishe by the Maister of the Campe Francisco de Valdes. And translated into Englishe, by Iohn Thorius.; Espejo, y deceplina militar. English	Valdés, Francisco de, militar.; Thorie, John, b. 1568.	1590 (1590)	STC 24570; ESTC S119000	51,930	64

Officers is the chiefe cause of disorder and no doubt if that care were both in the souldiers officers which is required in them they should alwaies march in good order And I take it to be a matter verie important that the word should not be passed in the squadrō but with great regard consideration and I suppose it verie necessarie that such stands should be made that the souldiers may rest a litle In déed the Gunners can better abide the troublesomnes of the waie without resting as men that go loose not passed with the heauines and waight of armors but corsiets cannot anie waie hold out but must néeds make staies especially in daies that are extreamly hot And I haue often séene some neglect their offices stay when they haue bin commanded to march and many souldiers being heuy armed haue bin choked striuing to do more then they could do marching in their armor And certes it is a shame for some Seargeants Maior to sée how vntowardly they leade theyr squadrons and how vnaduisedly they march obseruing no order onely for not considering when it is necessarie for them to make stands whence it commeth to passe that they leade a squadron orderly but drawe as it were a long rope after them three or foure miles oftentimes being betweene the vantgard and the rereward in such manner that the enemie with a far lesser number then those Seargeants Maior haue in their Regiments might verie easily do them much harme and so they march in greate daunger in one houre through their negligence to loose al the credit honor and reputation which they haue gotten in many yeres And although the Maister of the Camp or Colonnel be the chiefe of the Regiment and therfore as vnto such a one the honor or shame of the good or ill successe of the companies appertaineth principally vnto him yet neuertheles the Seargant Maior hath a good share therein for as much as I can gather by your discourse and if my memorie deceiue me not euer since I haue giuen my selfe to this profession I haue alwaies séene that not only the common iudgement of all men but also the Captaines and Generals do vse to praise or blame the Seargeantes Maior because they leade their Regiments in good or ill order before anie other whatsoeuer as such officers whom the ordering of the squadron chiefly concerneth Lond. So it is in truth for all this care charge doth properly and wholy appertayn vnto the Sergeant Maior and he ought not to excuse himselfe of his negligence or vnability blaming the sergeants or officers of his regiment for they do all of them obay his orders and doe according to his directions and also they he more or lesse diligent or slow according to the watchfulnes or slownesse of the Sergeant Maior who commandeth them Vargas Now I pray you tell me how the people of the regiment ought to be deuided when it marcheth who ought to go in the vantguard who in battayl and who in rereward and what place the standards or ensignes ought to haue Londonno I haue already told you aboue if my remembrāce kéepe touch with me that the Sergeant Maior ought to procure his people to march in such manner and so well ordered that occasion of necessity enforcing him he may alwayes with great easinesse and facillity forme and make his squadron And to attayn vnto this I thinke this to be the order he ought to obserue First in the vantguard marcheth the sléeue of hargubuzers of the right hand of the squadron which sléeue as we haue before sayd ought to be made before the cōpany be brought forth of the camp which ordinarily is one company of gun-men of the two that are in one regiment next after followeth the lining of the same right hand being of hargubuzers and after that follow the pikes according to the manner before shewed And because among other things that happen to be done vnaduisedly in a squadron it is a very vnséemly thing to se the ensigns born so out of order ouerthwartly somtimes at one side and sometimes at another The Sergeant Maior ought to cause them to be placed so that the squadron being made they be alwaies in their proper places which is in the middest and centre of the battayl next ensueth the lining of hargubuzers of the left hand and last of al in the rereward marcheth the sleeue of hargubuzers being one of the two companies of gun-men that are alwaies in one regiment And thus you see that after this maner the people marcheth being parted and deuided yet the squadron is incontinently formed Vargas I pray you why say you that the sleeue and lining of the right hand should goe before the sleeue and lining of the left● hand it may be there is some mistery in it Londonno I know not of any other mistery but this that in all our actions wee ought to apply our selues to perfection as neare as wee possibly can and for as much as the right hand is the noblest and most perfect it is better we should beginne thence then from the lefte hand to forme the squadron and also to vndo it or breake it Vargas Now seeing that you haue told me how the people ought to march I desire you to know where the baggage of these companies may be carried that it may both be safe and yet not hinder the people of the regiment Londonno When an army marcheth this consideration ought to be had that if the enemy be before in the vant guard of the way the baggage ought to be in the rereward and contrarily if the enemy be behind the army our baggage shall be caried in the vantguard and if the enemies camp be at the right hand of the way our baggage shal be put at the left hand of our campe and if the enemy be on the other side we ought to follow the same order carrying our baggage at the right hand of our army And so shall the battail continually be a wal and defence to our baggage and if occasion be offered that the two armies should ioyne in fight as they march it cannot hinder them and besides this certain troups of horse do ordinarily go to guard the baggage frō the suddayn incursions and assaults of horsemen sent out by the enemy and this very same order ought also to be obserued marching with one regiment by it selfe only But in case we were far from the enemy I would haue the baggage for a good consideration march in the vantguard with a troupe of hargubuzers to guide it for it is a great commodity for the souldiers when they come to their quarters weary with going to finde their tents planted and their forage ready without staiyng for it after they be come to the place where they are to be lodged comming many times wette and almost dead for hunger And besides this if any thing should chaunce to fal by the way the owner may

the Souldier whence necessarily proceedeth the fame and glory of his valour and deedes which increaseth his credit and bringeth him in authoritie As for felicitie and good successe that springeth from all three skil vertue and authoritie for he that by knowledge and experience knoweth what he ought to doe and is endued with vertue to attempt anie thing and put it in execution with aduice and authoritie to the end his Souldiers may beleeue him and followe him this man shall obtaine good successe which is to be fortunate and happie Therefore the Greekes and Romanes did with good cause require that these foresayd qualities should bee in all and euerie Officer and chiefe Captain of warre and I for this cause will also haue them to be in the Seargeant Maior and yet one more besides with which there will be fiue in all Vargas Yet another saie you which I pray you Londonno That he be some thing cunning in Arithmetike for that science is verie necessarie for the forming and making of the Squadrons which cannot bee made without the science of numbering Vargas You demand and require so many things in a Seargeant Maior that I doubt none such are to be found answerable to your description Londonno Yes marie Sir be there though they be but few and there would be many more to be found if it were not for the fauours sutes and bribes which as in other things so in the choosing of a Seargeant Maior disturbe and impeach the right course of election Furthermore whereas I am to forme a Seargeant Maior it is not for our purpose to séeke out and inquire what kind of men our Scargeantes Maior be but rather to shew and declare what men they and all others should be and how they ought to be qualified We must follow that which is perfest for that which is not perfect may be found at euerie place Vargas You haue shewed mee the spring beginning and signification of the name of Seargeant Maior and Seargeant and what the Seargeant Maior is and the qualities in him required Now I desire to know of you what Office the same of the Seargeant Maior is and in what manner he ought to execute it But first I beseech you to resolue me of one doubt which is that I knowe not whether they that liued in ancient times past had this Office of the Seargeant Maior Londonno I haue not read that the Lacedemonians Gréeks and Romanes among which Nations did warfare flourish most haue had it but we may reade that they had and vsed diuers manners of Battailes and Squadrons and I beleeue this to bee the cause if I be not deceiued that they had no Seargeant Maior because this Office was discharged by certaine other Officers as we may gather out of those that haue written De ●e Militari viz. that the Captaine Generall and chiefe head of the Armies vnderstanding and perceiuing of howe greate moment and importance the good order and perfection of the Squadron or Battaile is in which consisteth all the force of the whole Armie they would trust no particular man with this Office but themselues disposed theyr Armies and made the Squadrons of which they vsed sundrie and different kindes and manners according to the diuersitie of weapons with which in those times they accustomed to encounter with theyr enemies and also their souldiers were so well instructed and so skilfull that in a verie great and huge Armie there was not one souldier but knew his place in the Squadron for the easier obtaining of which knowledge there were many Schooles in Rome as Titus Liuie writeth where those yong souldiers which they called Tyrones among vs fresh water souldiers were not onely taught and shewed howe to bee apt and quicke in vsing anie kinde of weapon but they were also instructed howe they should keepe theyr place that euerie man might haue and knowe his owne seuerall place in which thing they were so well instructed that it was a verie easie matter and little or no labour trouble or difficultie at all to frame and make the Squadrons and they became dayly the more fit and apt as long as they were not without an hnge perpetual Armie And the same Liuie saith that the young souldiers exercised themselues twice a daie and the old beaten souldiers but once a daie And this most excellent order which the Romanes obserued aboue all other Nations caused them so to enlarge theyr Empyre and to become almost inuincible throughout the worlde whereas notwithstanding as Vegetius verie well saith they were neither so great as the Germanes nor more in number then the French men nor so subtill as the Affricans nor so many or of such force as the Spaniards nor so wise as Gréekes but the Souldiers exercised and instructed in Warfare did conquer and ouercome all these difficulties It were a very easie matter in proofe of this truth here to alleadge many examples both olde and new of many excellent Captaines who with lyttle Armies well instructed and set in good order haue obtayned victorie of innumerable armies and bandes of men naughtily ranked and confused But I will onely rehearse some of them séeing it is not strange to the matter of which we now intreate neither wyll it be out of the purpose to make a short digression to proue this veritie And let the first example be taken from the great King Alexander when he set vpon all Asia and the innumerable bandes of Darius yet with a verie small armie but wonderfull well instructed Lucullus a famous Captaine did get a most happie victorie ouer all the greate powers of Tigranes with so small a number of good Souldiers well trained and set in good araie that Tygranes seeing them comming towarde his forces making little account of them and to mocke with them sayde that if they come as Embassadours they were inowe of them but if to fight they were verie few Iulius Caesar being Proconsull subdued vnto the Empire of Rome many and rude barbarous Nations euen from the riuer Rhene and sea Ocean vntill the sea Mediterranean And I praie what made him so victorious but the good order and discipline he vsed And in our daies Hernando Cortes most worthy to be placed among the nine celebrated Captains with lesse then a thousand and foure score horse tooke the great king Montecuma within his owne Citie And at the length onely by the good order he vsed he did subdue the whole kingdome of Mexico And Hernando Aluarez Duke of Alua onely with one thousand of small shot and fiue hundreth Muskets in Frisland ouerthrew an armie of twelue thousand men with which Lodowicke of Nassau had entered in that Prouince To conclude as touching this point I saie that seeing a Squadron is a companie of souldiers placed in order in which euerie man hath his place appointed him in such order that-he may fight without hindering others or being hindered of his fellowes and in which all their forces may bee

saue it séeing it in danger to fal or be lost and so euery one may looke vnto his things that nothing be lost which they could not do if their baggage were carried in the rereward behinde the battayle Vargas Certes it is most true that all these commodityes be had by carriyng the baggage in the vantguard whereas nothing is gotten by carriyng of it in the rereward but losse and discommodity for daily wee sée that some one or other playneth that he hath lost one thing or other and it chanceth euery day that many things are loste or taken through the negligence of naughty seruants and boies their masters not being there to sée their baggage or to look vnto it which if it were carried in the vantguard vndoubtedly should not be lost Londonno I wil haue you to vnderstand before we leaue this particular which we now speake off that occasion might be offered where the baggage could be safely carried in neither of the foresaid places and then it would be necessary that it shoulde bee carried in the midst of the squadron after the same manner as I sayd aboue of the shotte that remained ouer plus for if we shoulde march with our army in Barbery or any other place where the enemy hath great store of horse and we none it were necessarye that our baggage should be in the midst and centre of our sqnadrō if we would not lose it for séeing that that litle which the souldiers haue is there it is great reason it should be carefully looked vnto and safely garded and this ought the rather bee procured for that the reputation is great which we lose if the enemy spoile vs of it gloriosly bragging and vanting that they tooke some prise from vs against our wills in despighte of vs. Whereof among other valiaunt Captaynes Iulius Caesar lefte vs a worthy example when hee according to Suetonius being forced by the vehemency and ciuill sury of them of Alexandria to retire did cast him selfe vnto the Riuer Nilus and carried in one hande his booke of commentaries holding it on hie that it might take no wette and swimmed with the other holding his vesture in his mouth that his enemy should not glory of any spoile of his But in case that without manifest daunger that the people bee defeated and spoiled this cannot be done the goods ought to be abandoned and forsaken to conserue the principall which hath not onely ben done by many noble and excellent Captains but also some haue of purpose lefte their carriage in the enemies power offering the occasion in robbing of it and gathering the spoile to disorder themselues to the end that by meanes of this pollicy they might with lesse trouble and great facillity obtaine the victory of them Vargas I had forgotten to aske you where you think that the horses of the footemen as wel corslets as Hargubuzers should goe and like wise where the seruants and lackeis shall cary their maisters pikes when they ride for I haue seene this vsed diuersly Londonno You know that by al good discipline it is forbidden that any footeman shall goe forth of the lodging or muche lesse entre in it on horse backe but alwaies in going forth he ought to accompany his band or ensigne at the least a mile or an halfe and euen so in comming to the lodging within a mile or halfe a mile of it hee ought to light seeing that their horses that vse to ride may easily goe at the flanke of the battayle if the wayes be broad inough and if not at the tayle till they may ride And it ought not to bee suffered in any case that the souldiers should get vppon their horses before their Captaines that marche on foote take horse and then riding and setting them selues in order by the Captayne and officer that leadeth them who ought before by the Seargeant Maior to bee named and appointed they shall place them selues if they bee hargubuzers of the vantguard straight behinde the same and if they be pykemen they shall ride behinde their pikes the same shall the hargubuzers doe that march in the rerewarde placing them selues in the taile of the squadron and the seruaunts of such pikemen as ride shall goe with their pikes in the same place where their maister vse to marche in the squadron that occasion being offered that the people should alight and march on foote Each souldier that is on horse backe may speedily returne to his place and the squadron neede not to bee broken or confused The very same ought to be obserued by those souldiers who though they march on foote yet haue their men to carry their pikes who ought to beare them hard by their Masters in the same ranke or in the other ranke behinde them wher when necessity is offered the souldiers may take there pikes and their men or boyes ought incontinently get themselues out of the squadron or battayl And to tel you the truth I like not the manner order which I haue herein don and obserued by diuers Sergeants Maior who placed al the seruants lackeis and boyes together in order nere the bands either before them or behynd them For it is most manifest that in so doing the squadron cannot scape confusion and disorder and none of them that ride know their place certainely Wheras it is most necessarie that the Sergeant Maior should in nothing so much trouble and wast himselfe as in procuring his people to be so lead that all and each of them know his owne place For herein consisteth the conseruation of all good order when they come neare the place where they are to lodge the Captaynes as I haue alreadie tolde you ought to light with in one halfe a myle at the least of it and so following them the other souldiers that ryde ought likewise to light on foote and it is conuenient that the Sergeant Maior eyther himselfe or by his assistant should be acquainted with the scituation of the place a while before the companyes reach thyther And comming vnto the place of armes or watch-hill of the sayde lodging he ought to forme a Squadron and make his Battaile not permitting any Souldiers to goe to his quarter or to disranke himselfe vntill such time that the whole regiment being arriued the Sergeant Maior himselfe or his assistaunte commeth to the Ensignes and licence them to go to theyr lodgings Who as you haue séene are lodged in the front of the quarters of each companyes all of them in one ranke and beneath them are the souldiers lodged The Sergeant Maior ought not to suffer in any case that any cart or other baggage be put before the standards or Ensignes and much lesse ought he to permitte any fire to be made there nor any let or hinderaunce for all a long from that place is the watch-hill or place of armes which ought to be kept vncombred and frée for the Squadron only When the regiment is lodged the Sergeant Maior ought