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A20463	Foure paradoxes, or politique discourses 2 concerning militarie discipline, written long since by Thomas Digges Esquire. 2 of the worthinesse of warre and warriors, by Dudly Digges, his sonne. All newly published to keepe those that will read them, as they did them that wrote them, from idlenesse.	Digges, Thomas, d. 1595.; Digges, Dudley, Sir, 1583-1639. aut	1604 (1604)	STC 6872; ESTC S109705	71,243	121

like gallant fellowes where they may take their pleasure and carouse lustily 17 The auncient Discipline reposed their chiefe confidence in their Fanterie whom they so trained armed and ordered As twentie or thirtie thousand footemen forced not of fiue times so many horsemen But as our footmen of the new Discipline are armed and ordered a thousand horse is able to defeat fiue times as many such footmen And yet might the footmen of our time carry weapons of farre greater aduantage against horse being well ordered than were knowne in those daies So great is the error of the Martial Discipline of our age among such Leaders as haue beene trayned-vp in Freebooter warres and haue vowed their seruice to their Ladie Picorea being carelesse of any thing appertaining to Victory and Honour respecting rather their owne priuate profit and commoditie 18 The auncient Martiall Discipline tended chiefely to this scope to carry such an Army to the Field as boldly durst march on all grounds as well Champion as by Straights And in Ordinance readie to fight with the Enemie by their exercise order and assurance not doubting of victorie But the scope of such Moderne Discipline seemeth to bee rather to carrie men so lightly armed and loosely disciplined as they may bee nimble to stray abroad to picke and steale and to escape by flight when they are charged with any Enemie of force And as for losse of Ensignes or shamefull flight they make it a trifling matter being readie to doe as much againe at any time 19 The auncient Discipline would neuer suffer any souldiers to go abroad to spoile but with Leaders and commaunders to direct and guide them hauing intelligence before hand which Quarters was best replenished with commodities needfull for the Army and then sent such forces as might not faile to set it in or honourably defend themselues if they were encountred But this new discipline will send their souldiers to spoile by handfuls without Captaine Lieutenant or Ensigne to guide them if they get any Pickorie the Captaine hath his share But if their throats bee cut the Captaine will haue their pay aswell due before their death as after by mustering them absent c til the Muster-master discouer it And whereas such a Captaine should bee disarmed and by the Prouost hanged for such abuse By this new Discipline hee will raile at the Muster-master lustely if hee cheeke him onely the stollen pay 20 The auncient true Martiall Discipline was That all Prayes so orderly in the warres takē should be brought to one place where Magistrates and Officers of purpose appointed should dispose thereof for the Ransoming of prisoners and the remounting of such as had their horses slaine in Seruice and for reward aswell of those that made the Stand as of those that fet in the pray But in our new Discipline it is Catch who catch may and no order in the world for distribution of the pray for any publique vses nor for redemption of prisoners or remounting of such as in Seruice lost their horses 21 The auncient Discipline was that no armed man on paine of death should step out of his Ranke in time of Seruice to catch or spoile which they easily obeyed because by their Martiall Discipline then they had as good reward out of the pray that stood in battaile armed as the loose men that brought it in But in our Moderne warres where no such order is established but Catch who catch may there is nothing but confusion Which cannot be but to their vtter ruine and shame Whensoeuer such vnsouldierly Freebooters shall encounter with any Enemie of good gouernment 22 By the auncient Discipline besides the reward of the souldiers which was left to the discretion of the Generall there were euer great masses of Treasure brought home to the publique Treasurie to maintaine the future warres and thereby no Cesses or Subsidies on the people for many yeares together by reason of the treasure so saued and gained by their well disciplined warres But if by our Moderne Discipline of Land Seruices the Prince or State hath no benefit by the spoiles but is riotously wasted among such Freebooters and their assotiates and the best souldiers least part of the pray and by such disordered warre no ceasing of Taxes or Subsidies but continuāce or rather encrease of both in al Realmes and States serued by such spoilers It is easie to discerne which were the better Discipline for the Prince and people 23 By such auncient Discipline Kingdomes and States by their warres haue encreased their wealth and their Subiects haue growne more wealthie and mightie But by our Moderne warres both Prince and Subiects grow poore few of these vnruly vnsouldierlike Free-booters how hugely soeuer they get by their corruptions or abuses grow wealthie by it for Badly gotten is euer commonly worse spent 24 The scope of the auncient Martiall Discipline was chiefly to preserue the publique Treasure of the coūtry and to maintaine the warres on the treasure gotten by conquests on their Enemies But the scope of our Moderne Discipline seemeth to bee to enrich priuate Captaines and Commaunders and to conuert both the spoiles the wages of the souldiers also to their particular benefits And so new Taxes and Subsidies of necessitie still on the people to maintaine the warres 25 The auncient Generals and great Commanders had their chiefest care how to preserue their own people which caused them so carefully to arme them traine thē and entrench them strongly c. saying the held it more honorable to saue one of their owne Souldiers than to destroy ten Enemies As they likewise sought to make their Souldiers and Countrey wealthie respecting nothing for themselues but the honour onely of well-doing But in our Moderne Discipline it seemeth The more of their Souldiers are wasted and consumed the richer grow such Commanders as by deceipts in Musters haue the conscience to conuert all the dead payes to their own profit Which wicked game of all other is most abhominable before God perrilous to any State the strength and glory of a Prince onely consisting in the multitude and force of his people which are wasted and consumed by such Moathes and Caterpillers 26 These auncient worthie Generals and Commaunders in the Field bent their wits and inuentions onely for such exploits as might be honourable and profitable to their countrey But if Commaunders of the new discipline deuise onely Exploits to waste and consume the Treasure of their Prince or State And care not to supply their owne prodigall Expences though they spoyle their friends thereby not onely doing their best to breake amitie and make more Enemies to their Prince and Countrey but also commit such foolish spoiles as their Prince or State shall bee sure to repay again double and treble any commoditie or aide they receiued thereby This abuse surely ought to bee amended 27 In those auncient right Martiall States wee shall heare of Generals and Dictators after they had

Foure Paradoxes or politique Discourses 2 Concerning Militarie Discipline written long since by Thomas Digges Esquire 2 Of the worthinesse of warre and warriors by Dudly Digges his sonne All newly published to keepe those that will read them as they did them that wrote them from idlenesse Horace Me castra iuuant lituo tubae Permistus sonitus bellaque matribus Detestata Imprinted at London by H. Lownes for Clement Knight and are to be solde at his shop at the Signe of the holy Lambe in Saint Paules Churchyard 1604. To the Honourable THEOPHILVS HOVVARD Lord HOVVARD of Walden sonne and heire apparent to the Right Honorable Earle of Suffolke Lord Chamberlaine to his Maiestie A Generall report worthy Lord of your honourable disposition bred in mee euen at my first cōming into France an earnest desire to see you which through your courtesy my good fortune was happily effected But when I perceiued with what vertuous industrie you indeauored to make the best vse of your wel spent time in those parts I cōceiued great hope to receiue much greater contentment in so truly honourable acquaintance and the tast I had of your fauours assureth me I had beene happy in my hopes had not my vntimely returne such were my vnfortunate crosses depriued mee of the comfort I tooke in the company of your admired vertue Notwithstanding I haue hitherto fed my selfe with the hope of your returne c. Hoc equidem occasum Troiae tristesque ruinas solabor this shall bee my refuge In the meane time as Lewes of France did his country friends rape roote or as the Percian King did the poore mans Apple I intreat your Lordship to accept these sleight discourses as a token of the dutifull respect I owe you They are I know most vnworthy your Maiden patronage yet my first fruites they bee and I earnestly desire that my first borne should beare your honours Name Your Honors deuoted Dudly Digges To the Reader THat there are many faultes in these fewe leaues I doubt not neither would I but you should finde fault yet not maliciously with wrested and vnnaturall applications yet not too peremptorily till you haue children of your owne onely this if you bee such a Merchant as hateth a Souldier thinke it no victorie to picke matter of aduantage out of my weake handling of their good cause If on the contrarie you loue the profession take in good part these slight endeauors till some one of better abilitie speak more effectually and let this publike protestation assure you I am no dissembler but one that heartily desireth to shew himselfe a louing countreyman to men that so well deserue the loue of their Countrey Farewell The First Paradox That no Prince or State doth gaine or saue by giuing too small entertainement vnto Souldiers Officers or Commaunders Martiall but doe thereby extreamely loose and vnprofitably waste their Treasure besides the dishonour and foiles that necessarily thereof ensue I Confesse sparing of Treasure and all due prouidence for the preseruation thereof to bee a thing verie necessarie especially in the warres of this our age where treasure is indeed becom Neruus Belli and therefore by all reasonable prouisions to be regarded But there are in all actions some sparings or pretence of profit that are vtterly vnprofitable fond and foolish and woorking effects cleane contrary to that end for the which such pinching is pretended As who seeth not that if a husbandman that hath first allotted a reasonable proportion of graine for euerie Acre of his arable ground shall of a couetous minde abate a quarter or one third part of his due proportion of seede thinking thereby to saue somuch who I say seeth not that by this foolish sauing in the seede in the crop hee shall loose thrice as much besides the hurtfull Weeds that for want of seede sufficient grow-vp and spoile the rest Or if a Merchant setting forth his Ship to the seas fraught with Marchandize shall know that to rigge her well and furnish her with all needfull Tackle furniture and prouision it will cost him full 500. pounds Yet of a coueteous and greedie minde to saue thereof some 100. pounds or two hee shall scant his prouision wanting perhaps some Cables Ankers or other-like necessaries and after by a Storme arising for fault thereof shall loose both Ship and goods Who will not condemne this miserable foolish Merchant that peeuishly to saue one hundred pounds or two hath lost both ship and goods perhaps of 10. times greater value Much more is the folly of this error in Martial causes where the Tempests are as sodaine and no lesse perrilous And therefore such fond sparing is farre more absurd in these Actions than in eyther of those of the Husbandman or Merchant For proofe whereof if I should produce Antique Examples out of the Romane and Graecian Chronicles of such Kings and Princes as by such fond sparing of their Treasure had lost both their Treasure and their Kingdomes also I could easily make of this subiect a great volume but for breuitie sake leauing many Antiquies I come to our present age and time and to matters of our owne Remembrance and Experience For who knoweth not What course the States of the Vnited Prouinces tooke for payment of their souldiers before the arriuall of her Maiesties Lord Generall the Earle of Leicester Who for sparing or to make as they pretended their treasour stretch did pay their Bands after 48. daies to the Moneth their pay being so scant and bare at 30. onely to the Moneth as it was verie hard for souldiers or Captaines to liue honestly vpon it And the same being now stretched to 48. daies vtterly impossible for them to liue without Frauds in Musters and pickories besides on their Countrey and friends Hereof it came to passe that the honest and valiantest men retired themselues from the warres and the worst disposed Free-booters were readiest to enter with these base conditions For such a Captaine as intendeth onely dishonestly by Fraud and Robberie to enrich himselfe to the ruine of his Countrey will especially desire to serue on such base conditions as honestly it is impossible for euerie man to liue vpon And so hauing iust colour thereby to shift hath all these meanes ensuing infinitely to enrich himselfe First in the choise of his officers to get or accept such Free-booters and Theeues as onely to haue the name and priuiledge of a souldier to escape the paine due by Martiall lawe to such vnsouldierlike persons will serue without pay or with halfe pay Then euerie of these his officers Lieutenaunt Ensigne Serieants c. being men of that Crewe will draw in as many also as they can of the same Moulde to liue on pickorie without pay and therefore very readie to serue in their loose manner with halfe pay Of such Rakehels then the Captaine hauing rayzed an Ensigne passeth his Muster and is sent to his Garrison or place of Seruice Now the Prince or State