all carefulnes and secrecie for by Martiall Law it is death to discouer it contrary to appointment If any muteny happen in the company the Serieant vpon commitment shall guard them till they bee deliuered ouer to the Prouost hee ought to bee a punnisher of all sinne and an encourager to vertue In the absence to the superior Officers he commands as much as the Captaine he deuids euery Squadron to the places which are most fitting conducts them to their watches directs both the Corporalls and Souldiers what they are to doe and appoints how all the Sentinels must be placed to the best aduantage To be short it is one of the maine and principall points of his Office as conueniencie will giue him leaue to draw forth the short and to teach them the manage and true vse of the Peece and how in the comliest and brauest manner that may be to conforme both the weapon and their bodies to the most excellentest Postures as first by laying a Musquetiers Armes confusedly before him to command him to Take vp his Armes that is to say hauing his Morian on his head and his Sword by his side he shall first take vp his Bandeliers with his right hand and put them on with the same then take vp his Match and put one end betweene his little finger and his Ring finger of the left hand and the other end betweene the Ring finger and the great finger of the same hand then take vp his Rest and put it into his left hand then stepping forward with his right Legge take vp the Musquet within a hand full of the vpper end ank so raise it vpright then letting his hand sinke let him Iert it vp without sloping and so catch it by the breech and then laying the Rest to it let him shoulder it then the Serieant shall command him to Prepare for Skirmish that is to say hee shall light his Match at both ends put Bullets in his mouth and change his Rest if it bee in his right hand into his left Then the Sergeant shall teach the Souldier to Rest his Musquet then The Sentinell Posture then the Saluting Postures and all these Postures are to be done standing still After this he shall teach him the Postures which are to be performed in marching as Shoulder your Musquet and carry your Rest in your right hand Leuell your Musquet and Slope your Musquet Then the Postures which are to be performed in charging as Cleere your Pan Prime your Pan Shut your pan Cast off your loose powder Blow your pan Cast about your Musquet with both your hands and traile your Rest Open your charges Charge your Musquet with powder Draw your scouring Sticke Shorten your Sticke Rame in your powder Draw out your Sticke Charge with Bullet Rame in your Bullet Draw out your Sticke Shorten your Sticke and put it vp Bring your Musquet forward with the left hand Hold it vp in your right hand and recouer your Rest And lastly he shall teach him the Postures which are to be performed in discharging as Carry the Rest in the left hand preparing to giue fire Slope your Musquet and let the Rest sinke In the right hand poyze the Musquet In the left hand carry the Musquet with the Rest In the right hand take your Match betweene the second finger and the thumbe Hold the match fast and blow it Cocke your Match Trie your Match Guard your pan and blow your match Open your pan Present your Musquet Giue fire Dismount your musquet and carry it with the Rest Vncocke your match and put it vp betweene your fingers Now assoone as your Sergeant hath taught all these Postures perfectly and that the Souldier can doe them readily nimbly and exactly with a comely grace and a braue presence he shall then instruct the Souldier how to reduce and bring all this great number of Postures as namely the fiue which are done standing the three marching the eighteene charging and the fourteene discharging which are only for Military Instruction into three only and no more and which three he shall only vse in seruice or before the face of the enemie and no other and they are thus pronounced Make ready which containes all the Postures which are done either standing still or marching the next Present which containes all the Postures in Charging and lastly Giue Fire which containes all the Postures in Discharging Besides these he shall also teach them how to giue their vollies with those in their Ranke as when the first Ranke haue giuen their vollie if the Battalia march then that first Ranke to stand still and the second to passe through it and so giue their vollie and then to stand and the third to aduance vp and so consequently all the Rankes but if the Battalia stand the first Ranke hauing giuen their vollie shall fall backe to the Reare either in wheele or in countermarch and the second Ranke shall come into their places and giue their vollie and so consequently all the rest but if the Battalia fall backe or Retire then shall all the shot stand still and no man aduance a foote of ground but the first Ranke shall giue their vollie and then fall backe to the Reare so likewise the second Ranke and fall backe in like manner and so all the rest till they haue lost so much ground as to the Commander shall seeme sufficient so shall the vollie still be continued and the enemie neuer free from anoyance To conclude a good Serieant is an admirable benefit and if he liue and execute his place well any long time no man deserueth aduancement before him for besides all that hath beene spoken of him hee is of wonderfull vse in all Scalados Assaults Mines or things of that Nature and if to beautifie all the precedent vertues he likewise be inriched with any small proportion of learning espetially in the Art of Arithmaticke whereby he may iudge of the alteration and proportion of sundry bodies and how to deuide and subdeuide numbers at his pleasure then I dare affirme he is an absolute Serieant nor can his Captaine wish or desire a rarer or better Iewell to depend vpon his person TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE IOHN LORD MORDANT OF TVRVY THE ARGVMENT The Office of the Ensigne THe Ensigne or Alferes as the Spaniard cals him is my good Lord the first great Officer of a priuate Company for all the former howsoeuer necessary are but petty and low places this only the first of Eminence and Account and therefore in his election great consideration is to bee had and to the making vp of his perfection many great vertues are required as Valour Wisedome Fidelitie and Honestie he hath the guard of his Captaines Colours and therein is trusted with his Honour and Reputation and if hee be comely of person strong and amiable hee is a greater glorie to his place and more becomming in Seruice but because in the Warres Officers expect to be aduanc't by
also carrie his Bullet bagge in which hee shall beare his Moulds to cast his Bullets also his Wormes with which he shall cleare his peece when at any time it is cloid either by mischance or ignorance and his Screwes with which he shall vnloose euery vice-pinne or engine about the Musquet when he either intends to take it in peeces or else to scowie it to mend any thing that is out of frame or otherwise to vnbreech it and lastly he shall carrie in it his priming yron being a small artificiall wiar with which he shall clense and keepe open the touch-hole of his peece so as the priming powder may enter in and make the peece goe off vpon the first touch of any sparke with which it encounters all this perfitted he shall bee armed with a good and very sufficient musquet being of as neate and nimble a cast as can bee made prouided it bee strong cleane wrought and of a good temper of yron the Barrell must bee in length foure foot and a halfe and the bore according to the size of a full Musquet and tried by the gage or allowance of the Tower of London the Stocke must be straight cleane and smoothe wrought without knots or flawes in any part but especially towards the lower end the extreamest part at the nether end below the breech should be at least eight inches in depth flat and smoothe so as if the peece happen a little to recoyle yet it may not offend the Souldiers body and the wood of which these Stockes are made would be either good Wallnut-tree good Peare-tree or some other fast firme and smoothe light wood which is neither apt through the shortnesse of the graine quickly to breake nor yet through the largenesse to split or riue in sunder you must haue regard that the barrell be smooth euen and not galled within that it carry the full bore equally cleane throughout and not carry Musquet bore at the top and hardly Harquebusse in the bottome for it is an abuse too frequent amongst our Gun-makers and the effect is nothing else but deceit and the peece of such a bore is hardly so good as a Pistoll see that the pan be tight and the touch-hole vnworne for if it bee otherwise the one will scatter and lose the powder the other will blow backe in the Souldiers face or else recoyle and doe greater mischiefe and on the contrary part if the hole be too little the powder will want passage and the piece will hardly go off without much toyle and great losse of labour see that the breech be strong and close all the screwes and pinnes about it fast and sure the scowring stick straight round smooth and headed with a rammer of yron sutable to the bore of the peece let the Cocks and Trickers be nimble to goe and come for as concerning Seares they are vtterly out of date and the Inconueniences are found in our daily experience for vpon euery motion or touch of the Souldiers garments they are apt to make the piece flie off before there is occasion killing sometimes him that marcheth behind sometimes him that is before sometimes sets fire on him that beares it and sometimes wounds his Officer that comes to giue him direction so that for these and the like mischiefs they are vtterly forbidden neither is the charge of a Tricker greater then that of a Seare and whosoeuer shall bee drawne to reformation there wil be found little or no ods at all in the bargain only the stupidity and blockishnesse of our ignorant wilfull Plebeians is so great that but with huge difficultie they can neuer be brought to relish any alteration especially if there be but the value of one penny betwixt them and their first custome or that any debausht fellow who hath either runne from his Colours beene an vnder-slaue to a Sutlers boy and now for his last refuge keeps a Tipling house in the Countrey for men of his equall qualitie If he I say will but affirme what they surmise it is not the wisedome of Nestor nor the experience of Caesar no not Apollos Oracle which is able to change any part of their resolution to this I haue been a pregnant witnesse and at this I haue often smiled chiefly when I haue seene some of more eminent condition how well they could be pleased to be flattered in their owne yet a false opinion But to returne againe to the arming of this Souldier he shall haue for his right hand a handsome Rest of Ash or other light wood with an yron pike in the nether end and an halfe hoope of yron aboue to lay the Musquet in when hee rests it and double strong strings shall be fastened neere thereunto to put ouer the left arme when at any time the Souldier shall haue occasion to traile the same Now as touching the length of these Rests there is not any certaine quantitie thereof for howsoeuer generally they are foure foot and vpward yet they should be according to the stature of the partie which beares them carrying the Musquet so euen that hee may in a comely manner discharge at a leuell without very much bending either of his shoulders or bodie Lastly if about his necke hee haue a piece of Buffe or quilted leather cut in the proportion of a large Gorget and extending to the vttermost poynts of his shoulders he shall finde both profit and ease therby for it will both saue his garments from wearing with the Musquet and also make the burthen lesse and more easie To conclude then for the Bastard Musquet which differeth nothing from the full Musquet but in the bore onely and the charges which must be made sutable to the bore they are of excellent vse for they carrie as farre as the full Musquet and pearce as deepe though their bore be lesse and their lightnesse and nimblenesse to those which are weaker and of much lesse abler bodies is such an ease and comfort that they are able both to hold out in Marches and in Seruice with any man how strong or potent soeuer Now for their arming it is in all poynts like that of the full Musquet without any difference for as their Seruice is alike so alike are their Accoutrements and what adornes the one is as seemely and becomming for the other so that it shall be needlesse to wade further in this Discourse but leaue the rest to the discretion of the Captaine in whose power it is to alter and dispose of his Armes according to his owne will and the rule of his Iudgement TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND IVDICIOVS EMANVELL SCROOP Lord SCROOP of Bolton and Lo President of the North. THE ARGVMENT Of the Arming of Pikes SInce my Lord you are by his Maiesties fauor the Viceroy or President of your Country on whom all these Military actions depend I cannot be perswaded but any thing which comes cloathed with this Title and carrying the Badge of experimented Truth shall find from you
vnto the lowest seruices and to the performance of all inferior and vnder duties and although hee bee of the greatest number yet is he of the least regard and receiues the least entertainement neither doth any ignorance excuse him but euen the first houre hee commeth either into the Field or into Garison hee is liable to this Office and duty which to expound in briefe words is this After the Corps de guard which is a Squadron of some fiue and twentie or thirty persons is drawne fourth whether it be in Campe or in Garison placed where the Enemy is aptest to make his approaches presently the Serieant Corporall or other Officer which hath Command of the Corps de guard shall out of the common Souldiers drawe his Sentinell conduct him thirty or forty paces from the Corps de guard into that passage or way by which the enemie or others are likely to come and there he shall place him with his Piece charged for it is intended that Sentinels for the most part should be all Shot his Rest fixed the Musqet leuelled the Match cocked and the Pan guarded commanding him not to suffer any Creature whatsoeuer to passe by but with a cunning and diligent eie to looke about and if any come within his view or knowledge first to call with a loud voyce Qui va la or who goes there then if the other replie A Friend or the like the Sentinell shall presently command him to stand without approaching a foote farther which if he refuse to obey the Sentinell may then shoote and kill him but if he stand then shall the Sentinell call aloud Corporall Corporall to which the Corporall shall replie Holla and so presently come away and with his Sword drawne receiue the word from the passenger whatsoeuer he be thus shall the Sentinell with all carefull diligence watch and not suffer any man passe by him or to come within such a distance as the partie may assaile the Sentinell or take aduantage either of his weapon or person vpon paine of most grieuous punishment neither shall hee slacke any duty or quit his placetill either his Corporall come and relieue him which according to the danger of the place or the strength of the Company is a longer or a lesser time or else that by some apparent danger he shooteth off his Piece and so giueth to the rest an alarme The Sentinell is a man of so meane trust that in our Armies he is not credited with the watch-word but only like the Roman Goose must cry out and exclaime when the Capitall is in danger he is a man that must wrastle and outfacce any extreamity not respecting the cruelty of any season nor leaueing hit Station either for Frost Snow Haile Thunder or Tempest These Sentinels in case of ordinary attendance as in quiet Garisons or where the Enemie is farre off remooued there they may stand single and alone but if it be in a Seidge or in Campes where the Enemie lies neare one to another there by all meanes they shall stand double that is to say two one a little distance from the other yet in such sort that they may discerne one another and be assisting each to other vsing all the diligence that may be both of Eies and Eeares and being both as silent as the dead of night it selfe If the weather be violently cold and piercing one of them may walke whilst the other doth watch if it bee extreame darke one of them may with his eare lie listen to the ground whilst the other lookes about to see if any thing doe approach him and thus one may helpe the other so that nothing can passe without the verdge of their knowledge Now if it happen as many times it doth that there be Sentinell beyond Sentinell one standing at least thirty or forty paces nearer to the Enemie then the other then shall that which standeth nearest to the Enemy be a single Sentinell the other shall bee double and when the single Sentinell perceiueth any approach of troops or companies then shall he retire to the double to declare his discouery and when all three perceiueth it then they may giue the alarme And herein is to be noted that all Settinels in generall whatsoeuer they bee ought not in any wise to acknowledge any man of what degree or qualitie soeuer the be were it his Captaine or any other Officer of the Campe but to keepe him out at a full distance till the word bee receiued If vpon mine assertion of the low estate meane quality of an ordinary Sentinell it be demanded whether al Gentlemen of Companies be vtterly excluded from this place and duty I answere no for in some cases it is a matter of so great consequēce that indeed none but Gentlemen ought to be made Sentinels as when it is vpon the face of the enemie or when Camps Trenches or Mines ioyne so neere one to another that contrary factions may as it were discourse and talke one vnto another each striuing to circumuent and cut off the Sentinels and Guards which belong to each other in this case both for the enabling of their Iudgments and knowledge to shew their obediēce willingnes to preuēt all mischieues that might threaten or disturbe the Army and to giue vnto the world a iust due proofe of their magnanimitie and valor they not only obtrud and thrust forward themselues to this seruice but also make earnest and great suite to attaine it knowing that the action it selfe deserues infinite praise the danger requires all the absolute parts of a Souldier as wisdome courage foresight care and preuention these Sentinels are called of some Perdues or lost Sentinels of others Forlorne or Desperate Sentinels and they stand sometimes on horsebacke and sometimes on foote as the conuenientnes of the place fitnes of the ground will allow he must carry himselfe with that secresie discretion that neither eye nor eare may challenge his aboad for should the enemy haue any inckling or perseuerance of his standing it were an action almost impossible either to saue his owne life or make his retrait with safety for thus was the Spanish Captaine Salazer cut off by the troops of Francis the French King the night before he retired from the Towne of Landresic and thus haue diuers in like case perished when Indiscretion hath ruled them the most memorable things which these forlorne Sentinels are to attend is the affaires of the enemie what preparation hee maketh for secret sallies In what manner his Troops lodge and whether he intendeth any secret remoue or goeth about to dislodge his Armie This Sentinell may not in any wise haue the word because of the great perill in which he standeth of surprising being taken Prisoner whereby the word may be inforced from him and his whole party brought within the compasse of most certaine destruction yet notwithstanding although the word be detained from him it is very
as they are entertained carefully keepe their Enteries their Deaths and Discharges and this first Booke shall be written at large and in Folio not hauing aboue seauen names at most vpon a page that hee may the better insert any exchange defect absence death or other faults which may procure a checke that so an euen reckoning may bee kept betweene the Captaine and the Souldier Out of the second Booke hee shall giue a Coppie to euery Corporall of his owne true Squadron so that when he is to goe to his watch or to doe any other necessary dutie he may by it call them together and see that no man be wanting and this booke must be written like the former because of Casualties Death or Alteration Out of the last Booke which is according to March or Dignite of places he shall take Coppies and giue them to the Serieants fixing to euery name the figure of the place in which he marcheth as to the name which leadeth the right hand File the figure 1. to the name that leadeth the left-hand File the figure of 2. to the name of the bringer vp of the right-righthand File or first in the Reare the figure 3. and to the name of the bringer vp of the lefthand File or second in the Reare the figure 4. and so fourth of all the rest according to martiall discipline and as shall bee shewed more lardgely in the Office of the Serieant so that if any man shall quitte his place either in March or other exercise the Serieant may immediately find his name and see due punishment extented and this may either be written in a booke or in a large Table at the discretion of the Clerke and Serieant The Clerke shall as conuenient leasure will suffer him once in a weeke reade to the whole Company the Lawes and Articles of the Armie and if there be no Minister or Preacher about them he shall at conuenient times as at the setting of the watch or breaking vp of the same reade diuine prayers vnto them He shall receiue from the Treasurer or vnder-treasurer all the pay belonging to the Captaine and Souldiers and see faithfully and truely distributed to euery man his due according to the Captaines directions and he shal keepe a faithfull Audit between the Captaine and all others clearing euery reckoning without doubt or disorder hee is to receiue from the victualer all proportions of victuals to keep a due account of the prizes thereof he is to receiue all Prouaunt Apparell with the value of the same and he is to receiue all manner of Munition and Armes which is necessary for the whole Company and of all these hee shall keepe true records fetch out the Certificates and kepe all reckonings euen betweene his Captaine and all Officers This Clerke is hee which ought to be both the Companies Phisition and the Companies Marchant for he ought by Information to the Captaine and by his directions to prouide all things necessary for them both in sicknesse and in health defaulking the same out of their wages or other allowance of the Captaines If any man shal happen to be slaine or otherwise to depart out of this life the Clerke of the Band shall administer vpon his goods and making a true Inuentory or praysure thereof after his debts and defaulcations are paid shall bee answerable for the rest to his next of blood or else such on whome by Will he had formerly bestowed it He shall also keepe a true note of the time of his death whereby a Certificate may be made to the Muster-master and so that neither the Prince may be deceiued in his pay nor yet the victualers ouer reckon the Captaine in the multiplicitie of their victualls He is to see that such as are wounded be duely dressed by the Surgeons and if that any bee taken Prisoner hee is to awaken his Captaines memory touching their Ransome To conclude if he be a good Clerke he is an excellent member both for Captaine and Souldier for it is impossible that any Captaine should thriue if he haue an euill and vnconscionable Clerke for the waies are so infinite by which hee may deceiue him that not all the eies and tongues which are vpon Rumors outside can either deserne or vnfold them till the mischeife be so rotten that no medecine can cure it and on the other side if he be all for the Captaine and haue no honest respect towards the Souldier then vnlesse the Captaine be a Saint the mischiefe is much more hainous for all being fish that comes to his net he will deuoure vp the Companie ten times worse then the Enemie and therefore a most especiall care would be had to the ellection of this Officer for hauing the distribution of all the Captaines waters it is in his power ether to kill or comfort at his pleasure There is another Officer depending vpon a foote Companie which in some small parts resembleth this and is called in the warrs a Furrier or Harbenger one that in marching and watching hath no command at all But when the Company is drawne into Garison then he taketh vpon him the effect of his authority which is from the Serieant Maior or other Officer his Deputie to receiue all Billets due for the Companie and to distribute them to the Company so as euery man may be acommodated according to the abillity of the place and necessitie of the times he is also vpon the placing of a Campe to attend the Quarter-master generall and hauing receiued his proportion of ground and discription of Streets he is to quarter his owne Company and to allot to euery man the ground whereon to place his Cabbin Euery iudicious Captaine may out of his Companie soone picke out a man fit for this purpose for the art is easie and if at any time he should doubt he might behold example enough round about him These although they haue a certaine power yet are but common Souldiers neither can they well be Ranckt with the Officers of a Company for in these is only but a kind of Trust in the Officers is both a Trust and Commandment as the discourse already hath shewed to your Lordship which if it bee either briefer then you wish or longer then your leasure in the reading could assigne it Remember my Lord that Souldiers howsoeuer they loue swiftnesse in their Actions yet they cannot indure to haue their Tales broken TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE WILLIAM LORD SANDES OF THE VINE THE ARGVMENT Of Drummes and Phiphes IT is Noble Sir your honour'd place and Birth which makes me fixe your name to this Epistle and it must be your Vertue and loue to the Souldier which must make mee appeare blamelesse in your opinion for I must confesse I haue nothing to rise vp betweene my selfe and your good thoughts but onely this That howsoeuer now we are spectators and beholders of our neighbours troubles yet we haue beene our selues vpon the Stage and may be againe when God
all manner of Implements belonging vnto them either for Horse or Foote also all sorts of Launces Pikes Murrions Corslets Swords Daggers Girdles Hangers Bandeleers Bulletbagges Flaskes and Touch-boxes for Horsemen Carbines or Petronells and indeede generally all manner of Armes whatsoeuer for it were an infinite thing in this short Epistle to reckon vp all which appertaines to this great Office Now as this Store house is to bee furnished with all these seuerall prouisions so likewise it is to be accomodated with men of all the seuerall Trades belonging to such prouisions as Mine-masters Smiths Founders Coopers Carpenters Wheele-wrights and the like all which as they are vnder the Guard of the Liuetenant of the Ordnance so it is his Office to see them prouided of all maner of necessaries belonging to their Trades which by vertue of his warrants or potents hee shall raise from any man that is owner thereof being a friend at such Rates and Prizes as by the Master of the Ordnance shall be appointed and also he shall call vpon the pay-Master of the Artillery if any defect shall bee in that behalfe for the true payment of all wages to all these or any other which are vnder his commandment and if the defect bee in the Treasurer he shall then enforme the Master of the Ordnance and from him receiue order for the redresse of the same and then hee shall also ouersee that the Clerke of the Ordnance doe truely and faithfully keepe an account both of the paies and all other charges belonging to the Office by Libranzas or Tickets sent either from the Master of the Ordnance himselfe or else from his Liuetenant and lastly he shall see that the Puruior generall which some call the Committie of the Ordnance doe make al his prouisions whether it be of Bastiments or other necessaries depending either vpon the Office or the people appeteining vnto the Office in a good and sufficient manner without either Crueltie or remisnesse neither offending the Friend from whom he raiseth these profits by any vniust and vnlawfull exactions nor yet wronging the place by want of such necessary commodities either through his slacknes in duty Bribery or any other soft-hearted or pratiall forbearance To conclude this Epistle because I shall haue ocasion to amplifie it a great deale more in the office of the Master of the Ordnance it is the Office of the Liuetenant of the Ordnance to deliuer vnto euery Captaine or his Officer whom he shall appoint for that purpose vpon Iust and approued defects or vpon warrant from the Master of the Ordnance all manner of supplies of Armes and Munition whatsoeuer whether belonging to the Pike Musquet or any other weapon whatsoeuer as also Powder Match Bullet or Lead according to the nature of his prouisions and the same so deliuered shal defalke out of the Captaines Count reckoning by the returne of his certificate into the hands of the Treasurer vnder Treasurer or their deputies Many other things depend vpon this Office but these are the most materiall and from them by an easie exposition may be reduced all the rest so that I may very well cast Anchor here and rest till by the course of Time and my purpose in these proceedings I be inforced to saile into a much larger Ocean The end of the third Decad. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD THEOPHILVS HOWARD of VVALDEN Heire apparant to the Earledome of Suffolke THE ARGVMENT Of the Muster-Master in Warre I Know my Lord that to expresse you as you are in the true dignitie of your place were to set you farre before the first in this great Range for as you are the Sonne of an Earle so you stand vpon an higher Scale and by the curtesie of our Land moue where you may behold these moue below you But when I consider how I haue formerly made bold with a noble Peere of your owne Ranke I meane the Heire of the Noble house of Worcester and finde that as you are Earles sonnes and so walke before in Curtesie so you are Barons and by that true right sit in the Vpper House of Parliament which other Earles sonnes cannot doe I could not but conceiue that this smaller lampe gaue the clearer light and that by placing you in this Range I darkened not but did much rather adde to your splendor by shewing that as you may march amongst the sonnes of Earles in case of Triumph so you may sit amongst the Peeres of the land in matter of Iustice It is farre from me to dreame of any abatement in your Greatnesse for so farre haue I been bound to the noble goodnesse of your thrise worthy Father that I must protest from the plaine truth of an vnspotted affection if I were able to adde or bring one sparke of glory to the Altar of your great Name I would doe it with all fulnesse all swiftnesse though the malice of the whole world as a greedy torrent lay ready to ouerwhelme me But to proceed to the discourse at which mine occasion now pointeth It is the Office of the Muster-master of which there are two kinds the one in Warre the other in Peace and howsoeuer they agree in name yet in nature they haue little coherence but since it is of the first as namely the Muster-master in Warre vpon whom now I must discourse I will omit all circumstance and disputation and plainly fal to the discussing of his Office First touching the nature of the person himselse it is certaine that for the most part Muster-masters in the warres are very odious vnto Captaines for in seruing of his Prince truly and in mustering stricktly he wipeth much vndue profit from the Captaine and spoyleth him of those payes which it may be he had hop'd should haue relieued many of his necessities on the other side if the Muster-master doe conniue blance at faults either for affection or profit then must he necessarily be an euill seruant to the State and the end of all his worke can be nothing but disgrace and reprehension so that I conclude it is the honest Muster-master and the honest Captaine which must agree and liue in a wholesome concord together the Captaine being carefull as neere as in him lies to keepe his Company strong and according to couenant and the Muster-master abiding a considerat man free from corruption neither standing too punctually on small trifles nor yet so wilfully blind as not to see errors that are grosse and palpable let vprightnes therefore be done on all sides for to discourse of Iniuries might instruct or open a way vnto Iniury so shall the Prince be well serued the Captaine better payed and the Muster-master best of all reputed Touching the election of a Muster-master for the warres he would be a man of good reckning and account a man honest discreet vpright and one that feareth God he should be an able man both in Person Knowledge and Substance and indeed ought to see all equitie and Iustice performed