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Orders and institvtions of vvar, made and ordained by His Maiesty and by him delivered to his generall His Excellence the Earle of Nevvcastle with the said Earles speech to the army at the delivery and publishing the said orders prefixt.
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England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
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1642
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ORDERS AND INSTITVTIONS OF VVAR Made and ordained by His MAIESTY And by Him delivered to His Generall His EXCELLENCE The Earle of NEVVCASTLE With the said Earles Speech to the Army at the delivery and publishing the said Orders prefixt Printed for J. Johnson 1642. Orders and Institutions of War INprimis it is by us ordered That no Colonell Captaine or other Officer or souldier shall be admitted into our service but such as shall take the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance 2. No Papist of what degree or quality soever shall be admitted to serve in our Army 3. All Colonels are commanded to have a speciall care that the due service of God be performed in their severall Regiments by the Chaplains to each Regiment every Sunday twice except some contingent occasion of moment be a lawfull impediment for their forbearance 4. All Colonels Lievtenant Colonels Captaines and other inferiour Officers are commanded to represse all disorders in their severall quarters as they will answer the contrary to our Councell of War if the default be found in them 5. Whosoever shall presume to sweare or blaspheme the name of God in our quarters for the first offence shall suffer twelve houres imprisonment for the second he shall suffer foure and twenty houres durance and for the third he shall be whipt and cashiered our Army 6. Whatsoever souldier shall be found drunke and so neglect his duty shall be punished at the discretion of our Court of War according to the haynousnesse of the fact and the detriment arrived by his default to our service 7. What Captaine or other Officer that shall inflict punishment or strike any souldier without good cause of offence given for such punishment or blow shall upon complaint made receive censure from his superiours 8. What Captaine or other superiour Officer or inferiour that shall detaine the souldiers pay after 't is delivered to him by our Treasurer or his subordinate Officers upon complaint made shall make full repayment of such moneyes and then be cashiered our service 9. Wheras there is and hath been in most services divers enormous abuses committed in Musters by Muster-Masters Commissaries and Officers for that purpose making their Companies seem compleat by men hired out of other Companies We doe therefore command all Colonels Captains and other Officers to take especiall care that their Companies be full and no such enormities committed Every Muster-Master so offending being lyable to Capitall punishment and every man so hired shall suffer death for his second offence for his first lye in Irons during ours or our Generals pleasure 10. What souldier soever that shall presume to steale from or plunder any of our good Subjects in his march or in any Towne where he is billeted shall suffer death if the thing so stolne or taken be above the value of twelve pence if under he shall be punished according to the discretion of his Officers 11. Whosoever shall wilfully act any murder upon the persons of any of our good subjects souldier or other shall suffer death 12. Whosoever shall force or ravish any woman within our quarters or any other place shall suffer death 13. Whosoever draweth any sword in the presence of our Generall to doe any harme with it shall lose his hand 14. Whosoever draweth his sword when his Colours are flying or upon any march he shall be harquebuser'd if it be done in the place where he is billeted he shall onely lose his hand and be banish'd our quarters 15. Whosoever draweth his sword in the quarters after the watch is set with intention of mischiefe to any shall suffer death 16. No man shall hinder our Provolt-Marshall or his inferiour Officers from execution of any charge given them by our Generall who presumes to doe it shall suffer death 17. All that is to be published and made knowne to all men shall be openly proclaimed by sound of Drum or Trumpet that no man plead ignorance for the neglect of his duty Who so is found disobedient shall be punish'd as the fault is of importance 18. No man shall presume to make any Alarum in the quarter or shoot off his Musket in the quarter but shall be severely punish'd 19. After advertisement is given to set the watch he that shall absent himselfe without some lawfull cause shall be punish'd with Irons 20. He that is found sleeping upon his watch in any place of danger shall be harquebuser'd 21. He who shall come off the watch where he is appointed to stand or he who shall drinke himselfe drunke so long as he hath the guard shall be harquebuser'd 23. Whosoever repaires not to his Colours when he heares the Trumpet sound or Drum beat shall be punish'd with Irons 24. Whensoever a march is beaten every man shall follow his Colours neither shall any through presumption stay behinde without leave upon feare of punishment 25. If any stay behind in a mutinous fashion he shall be punish'd with death 27. He who doth run from his Colours in the field shall be punish'd with death and if any other souldiers kill him in the meane time he shall be free 28. When occasion of service is he who doth first run away if any can kill him he shall be free 29. What Regiment or Company shall begin any mutiny the first beginner shall be punish'd with death and the rest that consent to him shall be punish'd according to the discretion of the Councell of War 30. Whosoever souldier or other that shall directly or indirectly hold intelligence with the enemy or disclose any of our secrets to them or any of them shall as traytors be punish'd with death 31. What Regiment of Horse or Foot shall treat with the Enemy or enter into any league with him without our leave or our Generals shall be punish'd with death 32. Whosoever shall give over any of our Townes to the Enemy that may be defended against them unlesse in case of necessity shall be punish'd with death 33. No man shall presume to send any challenge to any other of his fellowes nor to fight any duell in the quarters or without upon paine of death 34. They who shall hold any manner of conference with the Enemie without licence from our Generall shall be punished with death 35. Every one that shall not be contented with that quarter which is assigned him shall be accounted a Mutiner 36. If any cast away any of his Armes either in the field or in the quarters he shall be whipt thorow the quarters as an example to others 37. Hee who doth pawne any of his Armes or any Amunition whatsoever or any other necessaries whatsoever used in the field for the first second offences shall be whipt thorow the quarters for the third time he shall be punish'd as for other theft Also he that bought them or took them to pawne be he souldier or victualler or other shall lose his money or be punished as he who pawn'd or sold them 37. No man
shall presume to set fire on any towne village house barne out-house haystacke or Mill of any of our Subjects whoever shall be found guilty of any such crime shall suffer death without mercy 38. No man shall presume to wrong any who hath our Warrant or our Generalls for his safe passage be he friend or enemie upon paine of death 39. He who doth beat his Hoste or Hostis or any of their servants the first and second time shall be put in Irons the third time he shall be punished at the discretion of our Officers 40. None shall presume to wrong any man that brings necessaries to our quarters nor take his horse from him by force whosoever doth shall be punished with death 41. No souldiers shall come to the muster but at what day and houre they are commanded no Colonell nor Captaine shall presume to muster his men without command from our Generall 42. If any Horse-man doe borrow either Horse Pistoll Saddle or Sword to muster withall so much as is borrowed shall be forfeited and he that doth it shall be put out of our service and he that lendeth them shall forfeit one half to the captain the other half to the Provost 43. If it can be proved that any Horse-man doe spoyle his Horse willingly of purpose to returne home he shall be held a coward lose his Horse and be turned out of the service 44. No souldier whatsoever Horse or Foot shall be cast off by his Captaine or any inferiour Officer without consent of the Colonell 45. No Colonell nor Captaine shall licence any souldier either Horse or Foot to depart the field without leave of the Generall as he will answer the same and incurre our displeasure 46. Any Souldier Gentleman or other that shall be maymed or lose any limbe in this our present service shall have a competent pension allowed him to subsist upon during his life 47. If any Captaine or other Commander doe lend his souldiers to any other Captaine it shall be done in the presence of our Muster-masters that so our service be not neglected 48. All our Souldiers We doe hereby strictly require to avoid all quarrells and offences one to another to give due obedience and fit respects to their Captaines Lievtenants Ensignes and other inferiour Officers 49. We also require and strictly command all Ensignes Lievtenants Captaines to give the same respects to our officers of the field as Serjeant-Majors Lievtenant-Colonells and Colonells 50. As we expect they and all the rest of our Army by our expresse command doe the right Honourable Our trusty and welbeloved Cousen and Councellor William Earle of Newcastle his Excellence whom wee have constituted and ordained Generall of all our present Forces 51. And we doe hereby will and require our said trusty and welbeloved Cousin and Councellour William Earle of Newcastle his Excellence our Generall so constituted and ordained to see all these and all other our Ordinances of war whatsoever put in execution by his immediate officers that so our Cause may succeed prosperously and We with the Almighties assistance be victorious over all our Enemies His Excellence the Earle of Newcastle's SPEECH to his Colonels and other Commanders at his receiving the charge of Generall and the precedent Orders from his Majestie LOrds and Gentlemen my Noble Friends and fellow Souldiers I could have heartily wished that either the Earle of Lindsey who before commanded you had evaded his untimely destiny or thâ—â— his sacred Majesty had beene pleased to have conferr'd the successive managing of this office to one of better abilities then my selfe but since I am invested with this charge I shall study to demeane my selfe like a faithfull Subject to my Prince a true legitimate sonne to my mother the Common-wealth and a just and loving Chiefe to you all to use incouragementss to men of fortitude is an implicit diminution to their valours I shall not therefore so much undervalue yours as to intrude an exhortation upon your courages onely I shall desire you will keepe those men under your commands free from disordiers performing with all care and diligence these Institutions which I now as your Generall am ingaged to deliver to you from his sacred Majesty we are here in our owne Countrey a sad and lamentable affaire it is in Armes and must imploy our hands against our selves our brothers if we must fight I make no doubt of your deportement in the affaires of war but could heartily wish and so I hope you doe all wish with me that we might be happy in a faire and sudden attonement between his Majesty and his high Court of Parliament 't is not improbable but it may be effected if not I hope you will all fight as valiantly as I shall leade you on resolutely and if it so please God bring you off with safety FINIS