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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10710	A martial conference pleasantly discoursed betweene two souldiers, the one Captaine Skil, trained vp in the French and Low Country seruices, the other Captaine Pill, only practised in Finsburie fields in the modern warres of the renowmed Duke of Shordich and the mightie Prince Arthur / newly translated out of Essex into English by Barnabe Rich ...	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1598 (1598)	STC 20991.3; ESTC S2298	52,687	92

I am sure of that Pill Wheresoeuer I learned it no matter for that you see I haue it cunning is no burthen but do you not think my experience sufficient for the conduct of an hundred and fiftie souldiers Skill Yes and enough to cousin them all of their paye and nowe I perceiue indéed that yong Captaines are farre more capable then they were in Alexanders time or else they would neuer make so great sute to gette charge but I sée it is skil that leades them vnto it and I haue heard of some of those capable Captaines in place where they haue béene imployed that if they haue but once mustered 100. men within one moneth after they will not haue 30. and yet I durst depose for them that if they were brought to a dayes seruice they would performe as great skil with that small number as if they had fiue hundred to commaund Pill I think so and it is no great wonder for take héed of any man that is once growne so capable that he is apt to take any thing but I will tell you of a Captaine of a speciall vertue that was once imployed I will not tell you the place whither but it is no great matter though I name you the man it was Captaine Flant who was sent with a hundred Souldiours to a place of seruice where he had not stayed long but he reduced his whole hundred of men into a iust proportion of fiftéene besides his officers which was a Lieutenant an Ensigne a Sergeant and a Drum The 15 he reduced into three Squadrons which was foure to euerie Squadron besides the thrée Corporalles For his march he would lightly ranke them into thrée and his fiftéene men made iust fiue rankes neuer a man to spare For an instant of seruice vpon any ground of aduantage he would bid them to turne their faces on the right or left hand and then they were imbatteled into a broade square ●…ue in front and thrée in flanke If vpon the plaine he were inforced to a square battaile by thrusting in his Ensigne his number was iust sixtéene which being drawn into Maniples of foure made a perfect square euerie of like strength If at any time he were disposed to martiall them into Batalions he would neuer make aboue three Batalions of his fiftéene men neither would he admit any more then fiue men to a Batalion because hee would do all things by proportion and art To shew his skill in the new discipline hee would ranke his fiftéene men into seuen which made two rankes and one man to spare then would he bid them to double their rankes on the right hand so then he had iust fouretéene in ranke but where be the files and this is called the wilegoose ranke Now if they had but turned their faces to the left hand then the file was fouretéene but where be the rankes and now they were drawne into an excellent proportion fitte to haue passed any straight that had not béene wonderfull narrow This is inough concerning his discipline and now I will tell you how he passed a muster It fell out that the Lord Deputie or Generall or some bodie it was that had the chéefe commaunde in that place would himselfe be present at a generall muster where Captaine Flant amongst the rest bringing in his muster role his officers being first called his Souldiours were now to answere to their names There was first called Thomas Tatter that had neuer a whole ragge to put vpon his backe not almost so much as would hide his taile Captaine Flant quoth my Lorde if the rest of your companie be in as good plight as this me thinks they shuld be able to maintein a great daies march because they are not pestered with too much carriage at their backes I warrant you my Lorde answered the Captaine you shall finde them all alike and I hope your Lordship shall sée so seruiceable a companie as would be glad to get their pay in any place in Christendome well passe you by Thomas Tatter who is next Slim Slatter What Slim bare legged and barefooted both it is not yet a quarter of a yeare agoe sithence I gaue you twelue pence to buy brooges but I sée you haue spent your money at the alehouse I will tell your Lordshippe if this man would not sometimes take thrée pottes too many hée were as braue a footeman as euer marcht vppon two bare féete and I vse him indeede for my vauntcurrour to discouer Ambuscados when I march in Bodalia well passe by Slim Slatter the next Nicholas Needie come on Nicholas a most dainty shot my Lorde and an excellent marke man I do value him to be worth foure men for his readinesse and skill he hath but one fault and that is he will neuer carrie any pouder in his slaske I thinke he would sell his soule for good drinke passe by Nicholas Needie to the next Gilbert Greedie a verie lustie fellow and a speciall Souldiour for a ward or any place fortified he loues not the fielde but if he gettes into a towne you shall neuer gette him out againe till you plucke him out by the eares Gilbert follow your fellow and to the next Tom Trudge an excellent shot I had rather haue him on my side in the day of seruice then sixe of the best shotte againe in the field that are not of mine owne companie hee hath lost the seere of his péece but wee will haue it amended against the next musters passe on Tom Trudge who is next Dauie Drudge a man of a great spright I haue known when he hath séene two hundred enemies in view and he hath wisht them all fast bound both hand and foote and himselfe amongst the thickest of them all alone and had but a browne bill in his hand well passe along Dauie and to the next Thomas Tattell mine owne countreyman wee were borne both in a parish and for seuen yeres togither I was sure once in a month to finde him in a paire of stocks or in a pillorie but for an able Souldiour I would not leaue him for tenne other in his place go along Thomas the next his Camirado Peter Pratle an excellent skilfull Souldier more fit to leade others then to be commanded by any he is so careful in his conduct that I dare vndertake he would neuer leade his company with his owne good will where they should take any harme Peter follow your Camirado I do value that man for his skill to be worth 20 ordinary Souldiers the next Iohn Dory an olde Souldier you may sée by all his furniture it will scarce hang together with very antiquitie folowe your fellowes Iohn Dory to the next Sim Sory stand forth man What I thinke thou hast bin dauncing of Friskin that solde for hath solde his hatband for good ale but I thinke thou hast solde al the clothes from thy backe for good ale but there treades not a better souldier vpon this ground