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A20909	A breife and true report of the proceedings of the Earle of Leycester for the reliefe of the towne of Sluce from his arriuall at Vlisshing, about the end of Iune 1587. vntill the surrendrie thereof 26. Iulij next ensuing. VVhereby it shall plainelie appeare his Excellencie was not in anie fault for the losse of that towne.	Digges, Thomas, d. 1595.	1590 (1590)	STC 7284; ESTC S110912	25,782	46

militare Discipline is either contempned neglected or vnknowen as I had more than 10. yeares since published this Militare Treatize concerning the duties Offices of most degrees euen from the priuat souldier to the Generall so did I also during that my imployment labour to my vtmost power to haue such good Lawes and Ordinances established as might aduance the honour and seruice of God our sacred Queene and Countrey But as a bodie possessed with a pestilent feuer dooth manie times abhorre not onely the curing medicine but also the best and most wholsome meate and affect the worst most pernitious so found I all these good Lawes and Ordinances then established so odious intollerable vnto some such men of warre as had been bred vp in those licentious ciuill Dissentions that they not onely detested those good Ordinances but also mortally or rather immortally hated such Officers as according to their dutie tooke care to see them duely and indiffeiently put in execution labouring also to make them odious euen to the common souldiers and whole bodie of the Armie who were indeed their best friends and the onely meanes to relieue them in their wrongs and vniust oppressions But because I knowe those Lawes and Ordinances then established by the Earle to bee such as agree with all right Martiall Discipline and cannot be oppugned or disliked by anie but such as deserue rather to be corrected for their faults than tollerated in their insolent lawlesse presumptions I haue not doubted to commit them to publique iudgement as matters worthie to remain for Precedents to posteritie And because all warres are manadged and maigntaigned chiefly by Armes and Money it is cleere that the good or bad choyce of chiefe Commaunders other chiefe Officers for Militare Accompts is the verie chiefest cause of the good or bad successe of anie warres For as by the Good the Forces are maintaigned strong well armed trained gouerned conducted paid and contented so by the Bad demeanour of these Officers the Princes Treasure being the verie sinewes of the warres may bee vnduely wasted the Bands neither compleate well armed nor trained the valiant souldiers for want of their due wages discouraged or starued Honest creditors and alied friends for want of due paiments discontented the Princes most honourable pay slaundered and dishonoured The consideration of these important causes impressed deepely into my conceipt not by superficiall Contemplations but by actuall Experience hath prouoked or rather enforced me in discharge of my duetie to God almightie and her Maiestie my most gracious Soueraigne Ladie and Mistresse vpon the new Aedition of my Stratiaticos to enlarge it with these Additious That all Commanders and sutch other Officers Militarie seeing before their eyes proponed the Good Bad Light and Darcknes Heauen and Hell knowing that thereby the world also cannot but see which course they holde may resolue to leaue the l●crous base wicked and dishonorable path whose ende will bee confusion shame endlesse torments in Hell and to choose theright wai● of Vertue that leadeth vnto true honourable Fame finalli● shall be crowned with immortall ioyes in Heauen ¶ A Conference of a good and bad Mustermaster with his inferior Commissaries of Musters by the fruits to discerne the Tree The Good The Bad. THis officer will not willingly serue but with such a competent and conuenient enterteignment both for himselfe and his inferior Commissaries Clarks and Substitutes as hee neede not take Bribe or Beneuolence or depend on the fauour of anie but the Generall alone THis officer careth not howe litle Enterteignment certaine hee haue for himselfe or his Substitutes presuming hee can make what gaine hee list of his Office and make such frends thereby also as may beare him out in his lewdnesse c. This officer will be in his Expences temperate rather sparing than wasting that he be not by want enforced to straigne his conscience deceaue his Prince Such an officer hauing so good meanes to get immeasurablie by playing the good fellow will spend infinitlie espectally in keeping company with such as must ioyne with him in deceiuing the Prince This officer seeketh by all means to cause the Generall to establish lawes and ordinances wherby orderly entrances discharges of souldiers may be registred and therby neyther hir Maiestie nor the Souldier abused Such an officer can no more abide laws and ordinances in Musters than lucrous Captaine saying it barreth the officer of his discretion whereby the office ought to bee directed and braue men gratified This officer deliuereth these laws to his inferior commissaries with other straight particular Instructions and calleth them to accompt howe they haue discharged their duties Such an Officer likes none of these strict courses saying among Martiall men a man must play the good fellow not to be too pinching of a Princes purse This officer will not set down anie pennie checque certaine vpon anie Captaine or band without apparant proose for such as cannot be decided will respite them to farther triall that neither Prince Captaine nor souidier be defrauded or iniured Such an officer calleth this examination nice curiositie and saieth so there be some checkes for fashion sake it is no matter make them little enough that the Captaines bee not angrie and all is well O●● good Fellowe must pleasure another This officer if any such doubtarise in the checks as hee cannot determine by the lawes established he either desireth the Resolution of the Generall or that it may bee determined by a Councell at Wa●re or some Commissioners especiallie authorized to assist him Such an Officer saieth it is great Follie to loose that Prerogatiue of his Office to resolue these doubtes as hee sees cause and to subiect himselfe to Commissioners that is Master of the Musters himselfe This officer if the Captaines shew anie reasonable cause to bee relieued out of the checks either in respect of the losse of horse or Armor in sernice or such like that deserueth consideration he presenteth his proofes thereof together with his check to the Lord Generall desiring his Lordshippe to haue honorable consideration therof Such an Officer will bee Chancellor himselfe and neuer trouble the Lord Generall with these matters who hath matters of greater importance to thinke vpon Saying Princes purses must not be spared and braue men must bee rewarded and Officers must get Loue and Honour by dealing bountifullie This Officer if hee see ouermuch familiaritie betweene any of his Cōmissa●ies the Captaines is presentlie iealous of them and calleth them to accompt And if hee find them ●onniuent or faultie presentlie displaceth them or if hee find no other proofe but vehement suspicion yet remooueth thē to an other Ga●risō placeth such others in their roomes as may sift and examine their former behauiour Such an Officer likes none of these seuere Iealosies but liketh well such Officers as be plausible and gratefull to the Captaines knowing the Captaines be liberall and