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A19676	Militarie instructions for the cavallrie: or Rules and directions for the service of horse collected out of divers forrain authors ancient and modern, and rectified and supplied, according to the present practise of the Low-Countrey warres.	Cruso, John, d. 1681.; Dalen, Cornelius van, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 6099; ESTC S121933	103,340	148

Auditor may tax them accordingly He must cause the orders to be strictly observed which shall be published in the horse-quarters and those quarters must he purge of rogues and theeves He must alwayes carry his staffe or truncheon in his hand the badge of his office and having the same a See the States edict Art 78. it is death for any souldier any way to lay hands on him If he be to take a prisoner he must not enter the quarter without leave of the Chief but the Chief is to cause the delinquent to be delivered to him But if the offence be hainous so as the delinquent is like to run away for it he may of his own authoritie enter any quarter but not carry the prisoner away without license of the Chief of that quarter In marching he is to cleare the by-wayes of stragling souldiers to prevent them of pillaging Some make it part of his charge to provide guides and to have regard to the baggage both for the placing of it in the quarter as also for the safetie of it to that end sending one of his men before with the Quartermaster Generall by whom the baggage may be conducted to the place assigned But this more properly belongeth to the office and charge of the waggon-master CHAP. XIIII Of souldiers in generall Of the corruption of the Cavallrie SOuldiers take their name from the Dutch word Soldye which signifieth pay or stipend profit being one of the ends why men undertake the military profession and honour not the onely a Monsieur de la Noüe his souldiers in service of the States so regarded their reputation as after some want of pay news being brought that it was come they being to receive it they made answer it was not then a time to take money but to attend the exploits which they had in hand Meter lib. 9. though the chiefest of their aimes And therefore they which were of opinion that the way to reform the Militia of Flanders was to redouble the labours of the souldiers and shorten their pay were much mistaken And it will rather be found that the scanting of the souldiers profits and increasing their toile procured the corruption of their Cavallrie The honest profit of a souldier may be twofold 1. Ordinarie which is set pay 2. Extraordinarie which are rewards for speciall meriting services and these are joyned with honour Among the Romanes b Anno urbis conditae 349. decrevit Senatus ut stipendium miles de publico acciperet cum ante id tempus de suo quisque sunctus eo munere esset Livius lib. 4. the Legionary souldiers had allowance of pay corn and apparrell by a decree of the Senate 349 yeares after the building of the city having till that time served without pay but not without many profits and having all necessaries provided them of the publique A horse-mans pay was then a drachma or denarius a day of our money about d Imperatoris miles qui veste annonâ publicâ pascitur Veget. lib. 2. cap. 19. 7½ In Caesars time it was doubled as c Julio cap. 26. Suetonius testifieth and Augustus augmented it to 3. denarii a day They had their d Imperatoris miles qui veste annonâ publicâ pascitur Veget. lib. 2. cap. 19. apparrell allowed them of the publique and corn namely wheat for themselves and attendants and barley and oats for their horses e Polyb. lib. 6. being two medimni of wheat and seven of barley and oats a moneth the medimnus being about a bushell and a half of our measure They had also their shares of booties which were very large and ample Besides for extraordinarie rewards they had oftentimes f Livius lib. 31. assignements of land of inheritance and houses also sufficient to maintain them without using any trades Moreover they had rewards in money At the triumph of g Appianus Mithrid Pompey out of Asia every private souldier had 1500 drachmas of our money 46 pounds 3 shillings 9 pence and the officers in proportion And shortly after at the triumph h Ibid. de Bel civ lib. 2. of Caesar every souldier had 5000 drachmas which is 156 pounds 5 shillings c. Furthermore i Lipsius de Milit. Rom. lib. 5. ex Polyb. they had many kindes of honourable rewards for signall acts and those bestowed in great pomp at publique assemblies of all the commanders by the Imperator or Generall himself and a record kept of those services These rewards were of many kindes as severall sorts of arms horses rich trappings jewels golden bracelets c. Besides their severall sorts of crowns as their k For the several kinds of these Crowns both for matter and form see them represented in figure by Stewechius upon Vegetius For what merits they were bestowed Lipsius setteth down lib. 5. de milit Rom. Corona civica obsidionalis muralis castrensis vallaris navalis c. which crownes were put upon their heads in great state and solemnitie by the Generall These they wore upon all publique occasions as at playes in triumphs in judgment c. l Vrbanum verò magistratum non antè capere cuiquam fas quàm decem stipendia militíae adimplerit Polyb. for their militarie profession made them the more capable afterwards of offices in the administration of the Common-wealth If but such profits and encouragements were given to souldiers in these dayes it were easie to keep them in good order and discipline But what is m A horsemans pay in the king of Spains armie seven Phillips dallers 35 shillings english a moneth for a horse-man to maintain himself his boy and two horses and that but ill paid whence shall he have meanes to provide himself apparrell and if his horse fail how shall he be able to buy another And whereas a horse-man at the time when this pay was first ordered could put himself in n The Romans out of the publique treasurie allowed to every horseman dena millia aeris about 25 pounds sterling to buy his horse and bina millia five pounds to keep him Livius lib. 1. sufficient equipage for 20 or 25 Phillips dallers which is 5 pounds or 6 pounds 5 shillings now the price of all things is so raised as he shall hardly accomplish it with 60 which is 15 pounds starling As for extraordinarie rewards they are very rare offices usually being bestowed for favour if not for money So that good spirits and honest men seeing their way of o Thus Melzo and Basta complained being both Lieutenant Generals in the king of Spains warres in the Low countries advancement cut off and considering that without pillaging and robbing they cannot live give over the service They which remain infringing all discipline many of them p Quibus ob egestatem slagitia maxima peccandi necessitudo est Tacit. 3. Annal. fall to extortion and stealing and if an officer shall punish them for