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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58600	Articles and ordinances of vvarre: for the present expedition of the Army of the kingdome of Scotland. By the Committee of Estates, and his Excellence, the Lord Generall of the Army.; Articles and ordinances of warre.	Scotland. Army.; Leven, Alexander Leslie, Earl of, 1580?-1661.; Scotland. Parliament. Committee of Estates.	1643 (1643)	Wing S1186; ESTC R212896	6,225	15

ARTICLES AND ORDINANCES OF VVARRE For the present Expedition of the Army of the Kingdome of SCOTLAND By the Committee of Estates and his Excellence the Lord Generall of the Army EDINBURGH Printed by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie 1643. ARTICLES AND ORDINANCES OF WARRE c. The publishing of the Articles and Ordinances of Warre THat no man pretend ignorance and that every one may know the dutie of his place that hee may do it The Articles and Ordinances following are to bee published at the generall Rendezvous in every Regiment apart by the Marshals of the severall Regiments and in the presence of all the Officers The same shall afterward be openly read to every Company of Horse and Foot and at such times as shall be thought most convenient by the Lord Generall and in like manner shall be made knowne to so many as joyne themselves to be professed Souldiers in the Army For this end every Colonell and Captain shall provide one of those Books that hee may have it in readinesse at all occasions and every Souldier shall solemnely swear this following Oath ●he Souldiers Oath I N. N. Promise and swear to be true and faithfull in this Service according to the heads sworn by me in the Solemne League and Covenant of the three Kingdomes To honour and obey my Lord Generall and all my Superiour Officers and Commanders and by all meanes to hinder their dishonour and hurt To observe carefully all the Articles of Warre and Camp-Discipline never to leave the defence of this Cause nor flee from my Colours so long as I can follow them To be ready to watching warding and working so farre as I have strength To endure and suffer all distresses and to fight manfully to the uttermost as I shall answer to GOD and as GOD shall help me I. ●irk Dis●●pline Kirk Discipline shall be exercised and the sick cared for in every Regiment by the particular Eldership or Kirk-Session to be appointed even as useth to be done in every Parish in the time of Peace And that there may bee an uniformitie throughout the whole Armie in all matters Ecclesiasticall there shall bee a generall Eldership or common Ecclesiastick Judicatory made up of all the Ministers of the Camp and of one Elder direct from every particular Regiment who shall also judge of Appellations made unto them from the particular Sessions or Elderships II. Councels of Warre For deciding of all questions debates and quarrellings that shall arise betwixt Captains and their Souldiers or any others of the Army and for the better observing of Camp-Discipline two Courts of Justice the one higher and the other lower are appointed wherein all Judges are sworne to do justice equally The higher also to judge of Appellations to bee made from the lower Court And if any man shall by word or gesture shew his contempt or mis-regard or shall fall out in boasting or braving while Courts are sitting he shall be punished by death And both these Judicatories as well of the Kirk matters as of Warre shall be subject to the General Assembly and Committee of Estates respective III. Duties to God Whosoever shall wilfully or carelesty absent himself from morning and evening Prayers or from preaching before and after-noon on the Lords Day or other extraordinary times appointed for the worship of GOD when the signe is given by sound of Trumpet or Drumme hee shall bee censured and punished for his neglect or contempt by penaltie imprisonment or other punishment as his fault deserveth After the warning given there shall be no Market nor selling of Commodities whatsoever till the Prayers or Preaching be ended upon the paine of forfeiting the things so sold and of the imprisoning of the offenders IIII. Common and ordinary swearing and cursing open profaning of the Lords Day wronging of his Ministers and other Acts of that kinde shall not onely be punished with losse of pay and imprisonment but the transgressours shall make their publick repentance in the midst of the Congregation and if they will not bee reclaimed they shall with disgrace be openly casseered and discharged as unworthy of the meanest place in the Armie V. Duties to ●he King Countrey ●nd Gene●all If any shall speak irreverently against the Kings Majestie and his Authority or shall presume to offer violence to his Majesties Person he shall bee punished as a Traitour He that shall speak evill of the Cause which we defend or of the Kingdomes the Parliaments Convention of Estates or their Committees in the defence thereof or shall use any words to the dishonour of the Lord Generall he shall be punished with death No man shall at his own hand without warrant of the Committee or of my Lord Generall have or keep intelligence with the enemy by speech letters signes or any other way under the pain to be punished as a Traitour No man shall give over any Strength Magazin Victuall c. Or make any such motion but upon extremity under the same paine No man shall give supply or furnish Money Victuall or any Commodities to the enemy upon pain of death Whosoever shall be found to do violence against the Lord Generall his Safe-guard or Safe-conduct shall die for it Whosoever shall be found guilty of carelesnesse and negligence in his service although he be free of treacherie and double-dealing shall beare his own punishment VI. Duties of Superiou●● All Commanders and Officers shall be carefull both by their authority and example that all under their charge live in godlinesse sobernesse and righteousnesse and if they themselves shall be common swearers cursers drunkards or any of them at any time shall come drunk to his Guard or by quarrelling or any other way shall commit any notable disorder in his quarter losse of place shall be his punishment And further according to the sentence of the Court of Warre The Captains that shall be negligent in training their Companies or that shall be found to with-hold from their Souldiers any part of their pay shall be discharged of their place and further censured by the Court of Warre No Commander or Officer shall conceal dangerous and discontented humours inclined to mutinies or grudging at the orders given them but shall make them known to the prime Leaders of the Army upon the paine to bee accounted guiltie of mutinie No Commander or Officer shall authorize or wittingly permit any Souldier to go forth to a singular Combat under pain of death But on the contrary all Officers shall bee carefull by all meanes to part quarrellings amongst Souldiers although they be of other Regiments or Companies and shall have power to command them to prison which if the Souldiers shall dis-obey or resist by using any Weapon they shall die for it No Captain shall presume at his own hand without warrant of the Lord Generall to casseer or give a Passe to any enroled Souldier or Officer who hath appeared at the

sell rotten victualls upon paine of imprisonment and confiscation and further as they shall be judged to deserve No Souldier shall provide and sell Victualls unlesse he be authorized nor shall any that selleth Victualls keep in his Tent or Hutte any Souldier at unseasonable houres and forbidden times under pain at discretion Like-as all the prices thereof shall be set downe by the generall Commisser and be given to the Quarter-master of the severall Regiments XIII Dueties i● the Cam●●●● No man enrolled professing himselfe or pretending to be a Souldier shall abide in the Army unlesse hee enter in some Company nor shall hee that hath entered depart without licence upon paine of death No man having license shall stay beyond the time appointed him upon pain of losse of his pay during the time of his absence and further punishment at discretion If any man in a mutinous way shew himselfe discontent with the quarter assigned him he shall be punished as a mutiner And if any man shall stay out of his quarter or goe without shot of Cannon being intrenched but one night without leave of his superiour Officer hee shall be casseerd All that shall bee absent from the watch after the signe is given for the setting thereof shall bee severely punished Hee that revealeth or falsifieth the watch-word given by the Officer within the Trenches or before the Colours He that is taken sleeping or drunk upon his watch He that cometh off the watch before the time every one of those shall bee punished with death Whosoever shall assemble themselves together for taking mutinous counsell upon whatsoever pretext they all whether Officers or Souldiers shall suffer death XIV Dueties in Battell Every man when the Alarme is given shall repaire speedily to his Colours no man shall forsake or flee from his Colours No man in the Countrey shall reset them that flee No man in the battell shall throw away his Musket Pike or Bandileir all under the paine of death Whatsoever Regiment of horse or foote having charged the enemy shall draw back or flee before they come to stroke of sword shall answer for it before a Councel of warre and whosoever Officer or Souldier shall be found to bee in the default they shall bee punished by death or some shamefull punishment as the Councell of warre shall finde their cowardise to deserve XV. Dueties after Battell If it shall come to passe that the enemy shall force us to battell and the Lord shall give us victory none shall kill a yeelding enemy nor save him that still pursueth upon pain of death Neither shall there be any ransoming of persons spoyling pillaging parting of the prey or wasting and burning by fire or disbanding from their charges or Officers but as the Lord Generall shall give order upon the same pain of death XVI Rewards for the well desering Every mans carriage shall bee diligently observed and he according to his merit rewarded or punished And whatsoever Officer or Souldier shall take Commanders or the Colours of the enemy or in the siege of Townes shall first enter a breach or scale the walls and shall carry himselfe dutifully in his station and doth his part valiantly in skirmish or battell shall after the laudable example of the wisest and worthiest Kingdomes and Estates have his honour and reward according to his worth and deserving whether hereafter we have peace or warre Matters that are cleare by the light and law of nature are presupposed Things unnecessary are past over in silence and other things may bee judged by the common customes and constitutions of warre or may upon new emergents bee expressed afterward FINIS