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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26448	Advice to a souldier in two letters, written to an officer in the late English army when the war with France was expected, and one to a commander in the fleet in the last Dutch war, proper to be exposed at the present time while the peace of Christendom (if not the liberty of it) seems to be very short-lived.		1680 (1680)	Wing A642; ESTC R25836	11,263	21

describing the modern way of Military Discipline for Books are great assistances to those who every day compare their reading and practice When you have made a choice of persons with whom you intend to be intimate be carefull you are not by any of them drawn into private or particular quarrells And if any such accident happens in your presence between others endeavour what you can to compose not widen the breach If the difference grow so high that nothing less then a Duel can reconcile the feud in point of Honour make them sensible what a shame it is for Men of true merit to receive the Laws of Honour from faint Effeminates the Hectors and Huffs of the Town who possess none themselves but what they are indebted for to their Schools of Honour and Morality the Play-Houses Ask with what Justice they can expect the Kings pay or hope for his favour or his pardon while they shew such contempt of him and his Laws and hazzard their Lives in a quarrel destructive to his service Remind them that the French the great promoters of duelling in a more pusillanimous Age having now shaken off former fooleries and put on the bravery of a Warlike People look on that Man who offers to lend a Challenge as a fellow fit to be kick'd by their Foot boys and that 's the usuall way the Gentry of France think themselves oblig'd in Honour to answer him He who charges most briskly at the Head of his Troops He who first mounts the Enemys Wall and he who is for wardest in attacquing their Fortifications are the only Men among them who now obtain the Title and the esteem of Honorable But if you meet with any so fond of false Honour so false to the principles of Loyalty and true Glory that no reason can divert them even in a Foreign Country from a●●●●ing the Enemy by diminishing our strength and making factions in our own party let them alone by themselves to destroy one another for 't is pitty they should live and 't is pitty they should dye by any worthyer hands then those of the Hang-man or their own If you would ever arrive at greater preferment then you have or deserve that which His Majesty has already bestow'd you must be beholden for it chiefly to the valour and affection of your Souldiers therefore endeavour what you can to get them their pay in due season and if that cannot be done at least let them see that it is not your fault observe and abhor the example of some others who detain the Souldiers Wages the price of their blood and throw it away on the turn of a Dye or spend it profusely on their pride and their Lusts Despise all base ways of enriching your self either by cheating the King with false Musters or defrauding or abbridging your Men any part of their due such practices have been the undoing of many a good Cause and are so far more worthy a Gallows then common Robberies by how much the loss of a Battle is more considerable then the loss of a Bag of Money and the ruine of the publick then that of a private single person Consider your Men are equal sharers in the danger though not in the profit or Honour of the War and that as you are the head they are the body containing beside the Trunk the usefullest Members Hands Arms Leggs and Feet without whose executive power all your contriving faculties will prove insignificant so that you must not think you discharge the duty of a good or prudent Commander when you only shew your self bold and bring them on bravely to Battle your care must be both before and afterwards to see that they have as wholsome food and Physick when ●●●eeds and as good Quarters as the place will afford And since English constitutions cannot so easily endure Famine as the People born and bred up in less plentifull Countrys You must make it a principal part of your endeavours to have them sufficiently provided and when upon any action your under Officers or other have deserved well you ought to use your interest to get them encouraged and promoted A good Commander will use his Souldiers just as a good Father uses his Children and he who governs otherwise through Covetousness Negligence Pride or Ill-nature shall never get any great Honour himself nor ever do any service considerable for his King or Country But though I would have you love your Men well because you can do nothing without them I would not have you spoil them with over much kindness It is the wise dispensing of rewards and Punishments which keeps the World in good Order They never had their business well done who through an excess of goodness reward mean services too highly or punish great miscarriages too lightly Therefore as you must take care of the Back and the Belly the Pay and Provision of your Souldiers so you ought to be very severe in your Discipline The two former will gain you the Love of your Men the later their fear and all mixt together produce compleat Obedience Or to express it better in the Marshal phrase Pay well and hang well makes a good Souldier The frequent Company of Women and the tippling strong Liquors debilitate both the minde and body of a Souldier rendring him soft and effeminate lasy and sickly unapt and unfit for Heroick exploits Restrain therefore as much as may be the debaucheries of your Men and be carefull to refrain your own and take this along with you for a General Rule That when you teach your Men to live innocent you do at the same time make them valiant To the end you may with greater facility effect so good a Design you ought to be always attended with a good Chaplain And if I were worthy to advise your General I would beg him to be as carefull in the choice of his Chaplains as his Captains Nay I would adventure to say they are as necessary and many times have done and may again as largely contribute towards the obtaining happy successes And now there is as great an occasion for able Divines in our Army and Navy as ever there was since England professed Christianity For the Fopps of this Age. under the notion of Wits endeavour to Buffoon Religion out of Countenance talk Blasphemy and Atheism in common Discourse speak Treason against the Majesty of Heaven a crime which no Prince upon Earth will endure at an easier rate then mortal punishment And so while nothing is allow'd for fashionable wit which is not Atheistical or prophane or impudently immodest the young Gentry fond of that foolish humour call'd witty are in a fair way to be debauched For what shall restrain their exorbitancies who have learned to despise the supernal Power and by their ill example a door is set wide open to let in among the vulgar all the lewdnesses and immoralities in the World Therefore you should choose for a Chaplain a man reserved in