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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89228	The Scotch military discipline learned from the valiant Swede, and collected for the use of all worthy commanders favouring the laudable profession of armes By Major Generall Monro, being novv generall of all the Scotch forces against the rebels in Ireland, communicates his abridgement of exercise, in divers practicall observations for the younger officers better instruction; ending with the souldiers meditations going on in service.	Monro, Robert.	1644 (1644)	Wing M2454A; ESTC R231118	380,127	374

Councell of warres having our Auditor with us of the Regiment Officers the businesse exactly examined according to his Majesties Articles the souldier was condemned to die and to be shot at a post to terrifie others by his example from the like hainous sinne The souldier getting time for that night to prepare himselfe for death the minister instructing him of his duety the next morning the companies drawen to Armes a Guard was directed to see the execution the souldier couragiously and Christianly resolved being tied to a post was shot dead by his camerades who without any delay executed the command laid on them by the malefactor whose Corpes was presently buried The next day having shipt we crost over unto Lowland where according to his Majesties orders we were well quarteredand courteously received The Colonells company and Sr. Patrick Mac-Geys with the staffe were quartered with me in Marbe Captaine Mac-kenyee his company were quartered in Rubee and Captaine Monro his company in Necoppine where the Queene mother did remaine The tenth Observation HEre I did observe that wisdome and vertue were the best Guards of safety the one securing the soule the other the estate and body for this magnanimous and wise king by his fore-sight and wisdome did prevent the evill by a timely fore-sight which his enemies might have brought upon this isle of lowland being the richest part within the kingdome for corne a magazin and a garner for forraine countries it abounds also in all sorts of fishes the ponds belong to the gentry making great commodity of their fish being sold in the cities and country that are not licentiat to have the like of their owne the gentry of this land are much given to policy and oeconomy following the example of their king having great stalles and stables containing above foure hundred oxen and their stables some threescore horses being well fed and made lusty they are sold to the germaines which yeerely brings unto the gentility great store of money this iland abounds in deere and wilde foule this country is also plentifull of wood for building of ships where his majesty every yeare hath some builded by his owne master builder a worthy gentleman begotten of scots ancesters called mr sinclaire who speakes the scottish tongue and is very courteous to all his countrimen which come thither the citizens also of this iland being very rich build ships for their owne use and some they sell unto strangers my hoste the burgomaster of marbo sometime furnish'd his majesty for building of his ships to a reckoning of one hundred thousand rex dolors so that in a word in this little ile of lowland I did observe vertue to be habituall in it and so was the peoples goodnesse distributive unto us and our souldiers so that during our residence there we were so welcome that all things smil'd upon us where it was my fortune one night to have gotten his majesty to be my ghuest having then my quarter in the burgomasters house and though he was a king I perswade my selfe he was contented with his entertainment being both good and rare whereof truely I had a good deale but my ghuest departed by three of the clocke in the morning without bidding me farewell yet being his majesties will I was well pleased having sate up all night I was not for attendance in the morning which his majesty at his departure gratiously did excuse to returne then to my observation I did see and learne here the truth of that proverbe in his Majesties person that the wise man only is the cunningst sencer no man can give a blow so soone or ward and keepe himselfe so safely as the wise man and nothing is to be placed above him but God the King of Kings and giver of wisdome To live is common to be wise and good particular and granted to a few many I see wish for honour for wealth for friends for fame for pleasure I desire but those two vertue and wisdome which both I saw in this Magnanimous King and in his country people following his Majesties example We finde not a man that the world ever had so plentifull in all things as was Solomon yet his request was but one of these two though indeed it includeth the other for without vertue wisdome is not or if it be it undoes us at last and to returne to my observation in my judgement it may be said of this Magnanimous King as was said of Caesar Semi-Deus est for as he is valiant so he is learned Ex utroque Rex being valiant and wise a Prince of an excellent spirit capable of all good things as I have seene and observed in him he is learned in the liberall sciences and understands well the Mathematicks and the practise of fortifications as a souldier studied in the Lawes joyning Armes with Iustice two great helpes for the government of a Princely dignity he handles well his Armes and is expert in riding of horses a strong man for wrestling as all Europe affords able for to give strokes and the levellest shooter with a peece that ever I did see for with a pistoll he never misses a dogge in the head he shoots at for experience in warfare nothing inferiour to the greatest Captaines we reade of easie to come to and very affable patient to beare with heate cold hunger and most durable in travell and if I were to wish for the personage of a man mine eyes did never see his like for a stately majesticke person whom ever I will greatly respect and love for the good received and shall be ever ready to serve him against all his enemies my Gracious Soveraigne onely excepted and his deerest Sisters Royall Issue to whom I have vowed my best service Here also in this Kingdome I did observe that there is nothing mooves subjects more to obedience then the opinion they conceive of their Princes care and diligence in the conservation of his Kingdome and subjects and experience teacheth us that the obedience due to Kings by their subjects is weake if it be not grounded on feare and respective reverence As authority is gotten by honourable and convenient carriage so oftimes we see it is lost by evill carriage So that all greatnesse destitute of vertue doth vanish in an instant and therefore the Poets did say that honour and reverence were the childrenbegotten of Majestie and authority the example wherof we have in the person of Charles called the wise who having seene France ruin'd by the former warres under his predecessors Philip and Iohn Normandie and Piccardie possessed by the English and having Edward the third to deale with the best and happiest King ever England had who defeated the French in two Battells This Prince resolved to keepe the rest finding it to be as good to governe by counsell as by force of Armes he did nothing rashly nor unfore-seene but his designs were all well prem editated and digested making choice of men wise valiant and