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<P>THE REFORMED ARMY.</P>
<P>VVherein is plainly &s;et forth,
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<ITEM>1. <HI>What Officers are nece&s;&s;ary in an Army, over one particular Brigade.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>VVhat Officers may well be di&s;charged, which as yet are al|lowed.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>VVhat revinews will be &s;aved which may be imployed to more nece&s;&s;ary u&s;es.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. <HI>VVhat di&s;aduantage the State receives by &s;uch unnece&s;&s;ary Officers, overpowring Votes in Councells of war.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>5. <HI>What can be alleaged for the allowance of &s;uch Places and the difference between the&s;e our Civill VVars, and tho&s;e in other Countries.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>Seene and allowed by the Right Honour|able, the Lords, and Commons, in Parlia|ment, and publi&s;hed for the good of the Kingdome in generall.</P>
<P>London, Printed for <HI>J. B.</HI> 1645.</P>
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<HEAD>The the Right Honourable, <HI>the LORDS and COMMONS a&s;sembled in Parliament.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right Honourable,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THe unfained zeale I beare to the publick, hath emboldned your daily Orator to compile this indige&s;ted fragment, though I know it will not &s;uit with the affections of &s;ome in the&s;e our times: yet it is not inten|ded to di&s;ta&s;t any: I wi&s;h it may &s;afely arrive to the view of &s;ome candid and iudicious Auditour, who&s;e know|ing vertues may be a covering to my imperfections: the &s;erious con&s;ideration whereof hath moved mee, though the mo&s;t unworthy to pre&s;ent your Honours with my worthle&s;&s;e Labours: And the rather, when according to my duty I deeply pondered the &s;ad di|&s;tempers, and dangerous maladies now in the bowels of my deare Countrey: I held my &s;elfe the rather obliged to imploy that talent which I have received from divine Providence, partly to &s;atisfie my owne con&s;cience, in what becomes a faithfull &s;ubiect, for the welfare of his di&s;tracted Countrey, and for the fu|ture encouragement of al, who are in nece&s;&s;ary places of honour in our Armies abroad; and tho&s;e who are
<PB N="4" REF="3">under their commands, to the end they may the more couragiou&s;ly fight under the banner of truth: and tru|ly Right Honourable, my humble Reque&s;t is, that you will ca&s;t your eyes on it. <HI>Vuitu &s;erent,</HI> that &s;o your Honours may rightly under&s;tand you mu&s;t not expect here filed Phra&s;es, or oyled terms, but field lan|guage: For I never was a Court-flatterer, nor Time|&s;erver: but what I have here pre&s;ented to the world, is only to &s;hew what unnece&s;&s;ary Officers in an Army, though allowed by a State or Kingdome, prove di&s;|advantagious to the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Wherefore if you daigne to ca&s;t an eye on this my reformed Army, although it be not &s;o exactly pro|portiontble, as you perhaps expect: yet here you &s;hal find that it is po&s;&s;ible to fight an Army con&s;i&s;ting of never &s;o many Brigades of Cavelrie and Infantrie, without tho&s;e Officers whom here I have excluded: but thought I it would be taken ill for my boldne&s;&s;e in di&s;covering plain truth, I &s;hould bury my thoughts in &s;ilence, and &s;tifle my poore Babe in its concepti|on, rather then it &s;hould be borne a &s;on of di&s;content: But Right Honourable, its your favours only that I crave, which if I may be &s;o happy to attaine, I &s;hal be doubly obliged, as in all duty ever to remaine,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Honours most humble, and faithfull Servant, IOHN BRANDON.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Friendly Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THere being a fatall nece&s;&s;ity that compels the State to keepe &s;everall Armies on foot in the bowels of this &s;ad Kingdome, for the publick good in the con&s;erving of our Religion, from the Popi&s;h and Delinquent crew. I conceive I could not doe God, and my countrey a better &s;ervice, then by pre&s;cribing, according to my &s;lender skill, a direct and ea&s;sie way to bring them in to &s;uch conformitie, as the Officer and Souldier being duly paid, the States &s;ervice may be by them duly &amp; truly performed, the crying &s;insin our Armies &s;everely puni&s;hed tho&s;e heavy judgements impendent, and iminent removed: and our inte&s;tine enemies now in open Hostility again&s;t God, Religion, Law and Liberty rooted forth, to his glory, his Churches welfare, the &s;etting up of the un&s;potted Go&s;|pel of his Son in full Majestie in the 3. afflicted parts of our Princes Dominions, for the establi&s;hing of our King with comfort in his Throne, with his faithfull Parliament now re&s;ident at westmin&s;ter, and to the never dying com|fort of all his po&s;terity, and faithfull &s;ubjects: thus de&s;i|ring thee with patience to reade, but however thou art plea&s;ed to con&s;ure, I wi&s;h thee a contented life, and an ho|nourable death.</P>
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<HEAD>The new reformed Army, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_IT'S that which hath encouraged me to at|tempt this &s;ubject, for that I have formerly had command in &s;everall <HI>Brigades,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">At Southam, &amp; Worce&s;ter twice, Edge|hil, Banbury, Branford, He|reford twice, Cirince&s;ter, Burford, Shewdly-Ca&s;ile, Malmsbury, Gheltnam, Highnam|hou&s;e, Little|deane, Ro&s;&s;e, Covert, Men|diffe, Froom, Clarken. down, Land&s;|down, &amp; Tog|hil, Amsbury, the Vi&s;e, Cherington|downe.</NOTE> which are now abroad, and truely have much grieved to &s;ee the neglect hath beene in &s;ome Officers through di&s;content twixt each other in conte&s;tation, about their &s;everall duties in their places; wherefore now I &s;hall pre&s;ent unto you the&s;e follow|ing con&s;iderations.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, What Officers are nece&s;&s;ary in an army, or one par|ticular Brigade.</P>
<P>Secondly, What Officers may well be ca&s;heered, which as yet are allowed.</P>
<P>Thirdly, What revenew will be &s;aved, which may be con|verted and imployed to better u&s;es.</P>
<P>Fourthly, What di&s;advantage hath, and may ri&s;e to the State by meanes of &s;uch unnece&s;&s;ary Officers, over powring Uotes in Councell of Warre.</P>
<P>Fi&s;thly, what can be alleaged for the allowance of &s;uch place; of Honour, and the difference between the&s;e our uncivill wars, and tho&s;e in other Countryes.</P>
<P>For the fir&s;t of this, there is nece&s;&s;ity of a Captaine Gene|rall over the whole Army, con&s;i&s;t it of never &s;o many, or few Brigades, for they are all to be Commanded by this Cap|taine Generall, and no more: and in his ab&s;ence his Lei&s;tenant Generalls Command is to be obeyed, as if the former were pre&s;ent, and &s;o by Con&s;equence but one Major General, a Com|mi&s;&s;ary Generall, one Quarter-Ma&s;ter-Generall, and a Scout
<PB N="7" REF="4">Ma&s;ter Generall to the whole Army, rai&s;ed by the State or Kingdome.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">A Lievtenant Generall to the Ordnance of the whole Army not to be excluded.</NOTE></P>
<P>I conceive there is no nece&s;&s;ity of more Generalls, but that every particular Brigade be a&s;&s;igned to a Commander in chief, whom the Captain Generall &s;hall know to be an able Souldier or the elde&s;t Major of the Brigade, and for the Commanders in chief of every Regiment to be no other then Majors by Commi&s;&s;ion,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">It is his place by &s;ucce&s;&s;ion.</NOTE> whether of Cavalry or Infantry, a Captaine Leivetenant Cornet, or En&s;igne,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">With Can|noneers, Gentlemen to the Ordnance Metro&s;&s;es, &amp;c. Fires Mr. with his nece&s;&s;ary attendants, as Wagon-Mrs. pyoneers, &amp;c.</NOTE> a Quarter-Ma&s;ter to every Troope of the Cavalry, &amp; to every Regiment of the Infantry, three Corporalls or Sergeants, with Trumpet and Drum; and for the Leivetenant Generalls a&s;si&s;tant to all the traines be|longing to the &s;everal Brigades, that may officiate his place, he being in the Captain Generals own Brigade. Thus have I &s;hew|ed briefly what places of Command are ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary in an Army; and to give thee better &s;atisfaction I &s;hall lay downe &s;ome &s;peciall rea&s;ons to prove the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, for that unle&s;&s;e there were a Captaine-Generall,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">All manner of Officers ought to be mightily in|dewed with patience, hu|mility, &s;ome|times, to have a &s;evere hand over &s;uch as are of a muti|nous di&s;po&s;iti|on, to the end he may have them all in generall at Command when need requires.</NOTE> there could be no &s;uperiority in places of Honour, and &s;o by con|lequence they could not be &s;o valiant, did not the hope of pre|ferment &s;pur them forward unto noble actions, neither gene|rally would they indure tho&s;e extremities which are incident to their callings, neither could they have that command over their Souldiers as nece&s;sity requires; But its matter of en|couragement to all that fight under the Banner of a grave Heroick, &amp; politick Generall. To which end he that is created &s;uch is well known by that State or Kingdom that elects him, to be a man of great birth, an able State&s;-man, and expert Souldier, whereby he is enabled to di&s;charge &s;o great and high a tru&s;t: we have many examples in &s;acred Writ of their Chief|taines, who alwayes had power above al other in their &s;ever|all Hoa&s;ts to con&s;titute Lawes, for puni&s;hing the offences of their Souldiers.</P>
<P>This pre&s;ident we have imitated, and had not there been an overpowering command to be obeyed by all in our Armies,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">As of <HI>Ie&s;ta</HI> Iudge of I&s;ra|el, and divers others.</NOTE> be it &s;poken to the everla&s;ting Honour of His Excellency, the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> we &s;hould not have had &s;o many de&s;ervedly executed for thefts, tapes, mutinies, treacheries, and other outrages, as hath beene by vertue of tho&s;e Mattiall Laws &s;et
<PB N="8" REF="5">forth by him at his entring into that high place of Honour,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Or in ca&s;e he be Comanded to pre&s;ent his Generalls per&s;on with a|ny of the o|ther Brigades which are not re&s;ident with the Captaine Generall, there he takes place from the other Com|mander in chiefe.</NOTE> which he &s;o faithfully hath performed.</P>
<P>Secondly to prove the nece&s;&s;ity of a Leivetenant-Generall which con&s;i&s;ts in repre&s;enting the Per&s;on of the Generall in his ab&s;ence &amp; when the army is engaged to &s;ecure the Per&s;on of his Generall by engaging him&s;elfe, for it is very unfit that a Generall &s;hould engage him&s;elfe in any fight, further then to view how his enemy lyes, thereby to take his be&s;t aduan|tages for ground, to fight his men, to place his Artillery and Carraiges, and to give al po&s;&s;ible encouragements, and to order when they &s;hall charge, and in what nature, to retreate or per&s;ue, all which is performed by the judgement, fidelity, and valour; of the Major-Generall, after orders received from his Captain-General which proves the nece&s;&s;ity of his place of honour in the feild.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Becau&s;e he drawes up the whole Armies in Battalia &amp; fights the bo|dy an&s;wera|bly.</NOTE> And by &s;ucce&s;&s;ion a Quarter-Ma&s;ter-Gen: who receives orders for the quartring of the whole Army, either in feild or towne, as occa&s;ion &s;hall require; his charge is great, he ought to be a man of great judgement &amp; experince, e|&s;pecially in the knowledge of al countries, with the pa&s;|&s;ages,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Yet to do no|thing without his judgment, agree with his &s;uperior Officer, &amp; to receive or|der from them</NOTE> and inlets thereunto, the &s;afety of the whole Army: it being to be quartred lies in his wi&s;dome and fidelity, which &s;hews there is a duty by him to be performed: &s;o by con&s;equence his place of honour is necei&s;ary.</P>
<P>The Scout-Ma&s;ter-Generalls place is very nece&s;&s;ary, but dangerous, his duty is ro di&s;cover all pa&s;&s;ages, and re&s;ults a|mong&s;t the enemy to his Generall, but to hold no corre&s;|pondence,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">This Officer may ea&s;ily betray his tru&s;t, where|fore it re|quires great care in the choi&s;e of him.</NOTE> but to di&s;cover their &s;trength &amp; intentions &amp; togive intelligence of their advance towards any of their Quarters, or el&s;ewhere, in &s;uch time as they may make them&s;elves ready to circumvent their enemyes intended policy. I de&s;ire to be excu&s;ed if I faile in ranking their places of honour, according to &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, for the nece&s;&s;ity of a Lievetenant-Generall to the train of Artillery; I have not yet urged; his Office is of great concernment,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">This Officer ought to be &s;uch a man as is not u&s;ed to drinke much wine, nor to be familiar with his attendants ut very circam&s;pect what Officers he hath about him.</NOTE> he ought to be a well-grounded Engineer, a man well knowing in all in gredients, for Peetare, &amp; Gran|adoes, as well for the Morter, as the hand, al&s;o for the travifing the ground he is to play upon, there is many other things in duty belongs to his place, which cau&s;es it, appeare nece&s;&s;ary
<PB N="9" REF="5">&s;o much may &s;uffice to be &s;poken of the nece&s;&s;ary Generalls in an <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><P>he ought to be a man of an undaunted &s;p;irit.</P>
<P>It is onely for forme &s;ake &amp; no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> of nece&s;|&s;ity, but to di&s;tingui&s;h his place of Hon|our by way of title from the re&s;t.</P>
<P>yet its thought more proper for him that &s;hall have the command of a Brigade then for he who has the Com|mand but of owne Reg|ment.</P>
<P>Which is 5. s. par die or 18. l. 6. d. for the other.</P>
<P>He ought to be a very mo|derate man &amp; of exellent judgement.</P>
<P>That is Major Gener alls to the &s;ame, com|mi&s;&s;ary Gen: Quarter-Ma&s;ter Gen. Scour m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ter-gen: Colonels &amp; Livetenant <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">lo: Adietant Gen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> &amp; Aud|itor Gen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> to the whole Army, the benefit the&s;e to latter make of their places is unknow.</P></NOTE></P>
<P>Now I come to &s;hew the nece&s;&s;ary Officers requirable in a particular Brigade. The fir&s;t is a Commander in chief, who ought to be the elde&s;t Major in the &s;aid Brigade, whether of Cavalry or Infantry, &s;o hee be a knowing man and an able Souldier: and if it &s;hall &s;o plea&s;e that State whom imploy him, to honour him &s;o much, as with the title of Collonel, but to have no more in the &s;ame Brigade: &s;o by &s;ucce&s;&s;ion the next Major in the &s;ame Brigade to have the &s;econd place of honour in the &s;ame and to have a Commi&s;&s;ary, who &s;hall both muder and pay, as a&s;&s;i&s;tant to the Commi&s;&s;ary Generall: Al&s;o the elde&s;t Quarter-ma&s;ter to this Brigade, which &s;hall receive orders from his &s;upreme Officer, and to deliver them to the re&s;t of the Quarter-ma&s;ter of the &s;ame, and to receive my, as Captaine to Infantry, or Livetenant to Cavalry: but not as Quirter-ma&s;ter Generall: and for the traine of Attil|lery; to have an able man to depute the place of the Livete|nant generall to the Ordinance, withall other Officer; under them to officiate in every Regiment: and for every Regiment to be commanded by its Major, who&s;e duty is to draw them up in Battalia, and no Officer elfe, and to &s;ight it in that form and manner, as he &s;hall thinke fit after orders received from the &s;uperiour Officers, hee giving to every Captaine his charge: and &s;o con&s;equently every inferiour officers charge under them for the maintaining of the Battle, without who&s;e a&s;&s;i&s;tance the bu&s;ines could not be performed: wherefore the&s;e places of Honour nece&s;&s;ary and what Officers are over &amp; above the&s;e which I have expre&s;&s;ed are &s;uperfluous.</P>
<P>The next thing that fals into my hands, is the con&s;ideration of what Officers they are that are now imployed and yet un|nece&s;&s;ary in our Army, or particular Brigade in the whole Army, the Auditour Generall, and the Aditant General may be excluded: For the fir&s;t of the two the Commi&s;&s;ary Ge|nerall being both to mu&s;ter, and pay is bound to ca&s;t up the &s;everall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">entors, which appertaines to every officer, and &s;ouldier of the &s;aid Army, or Brigade for his owne di&s;charge, that being the only worke of the Auditour Generall: but, being performed by the afore&s;aid Commi&s;&s;ary, I conclude that
<PB N="10" REF="6">his place as Auditour Generall may be excluded.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><P>As for provid|ing nece&s;&s;arys for their &s;oul|diers, when they are in Garri&s;on, and keep continu|all outgard or watch for it is the duty of him that is the Captaine of the watch for to ride or walke the rounds, to &s;ee that his g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ards be &s;afe, and his men prepared with things an&s;werable to their charge whether he be Major Capta. or other, &amp; not the particular duty of the adietant, if it be wel weigh|ed it will plainly appear to be a great Nenefit to the State.</P>
<P>It is a beare Titile with|out a duty.</P>
<P>Which may o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> well be done by the.</P>
<P>Major and as much for the Souldiers en|couragement.</P></NOTE></P>
<P>For the &s;econd, which is the Aietant Generall, I conceive his duty is no other then what is performed by every Major, Captaine, and Quarter-ma&s;ter, being they are particular duties in their places: and for tho&s;e Officers which are unnece&s;&s;ary in a Brigade, con&s;i&s;ting of never &s;o many of the Cavalry, or In|fantry, is fir&s;t a Major Generall, for that the elde&s;t Major by &s;ucce&s;&s;ion may performe the duty of a Major Generall: but &s;ome will &s;ay who &s;hall officiate his place in his own Regi|ment, its an&s;wered by way of objection, who executes the du|ty of a Collonel, to tho&s;e two or three Regiments, that &s;ome Major General have under command as Collonel: be&s;ides their Major Generals place, but either their Livetenant Colonell, or Major, and why not in this ca&s;e for the benefit of a State or Kingdome, the elde&s;t Captaine of a Regiment per|forme the duty of his Major, whil&s;t his Major executes the duty that is performed by tho&s;e Maior Generals, who are im|ployed in the&s;e our times: Wherefore, I conceive the Maior Generall to a particular Brigade may be excluded, but I &s;hall leave it to the con&s;iderations of better Iudgements then my owne: and for Collonels of Cavalty, and Infantry, I con|ceive there is no u&s;e of them at all, otherwi&s;e then as they charge in the head of their Regiments, is matter of encou|ragement to tho&s;e whom they have under their command, if they doe ought el&s;e, as to receive orders from the Commander in chiefe of the &s;ame Brigade or partie either for pur&s;uit, or retreat, or in what manner or forme they mu&s;t charge their Enemy; it is that which is the ab&s;olute duty of the Maiors, and not theirs: Pre&s;idents for any of the&s;e Officers which I have excluded to be imployed in any Army we have none, but what have beene of very late yeers: but if we looke upon <HI>Valerius</HI> the Roman Emperour, wee &s;hall find that his field Generals, though his Army con&s;i&s;ted of never &s;o many Legions, were no more then three; and they are conceived to be no other then a Captain Generall, Livetenant Generall, and Maior Generall; there is no nomination of any more Generals, neither of Collonels, or Livetenant Colonells, but that all their Legions that were above the number of three were commanded by no other, then by &s;uch as performe the
<PB N="11" REF="6">duty of Maiors in the&s;e our times,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><P>It is to be ad|mired that a|ny &s;hould be to ambitious, as in a Regi|ment to ex+pect any &s;tep of Honour, to be rai&s;ed to other then Majority in the &s;ame. Can we think the Major is as Minor, to Colonell and Livetenant, Colonell: it ought to be con&s;idred whe+ther they be no: new Vp|&s;tart Titiles of Honour.</P>
<P>And this is the ab&s;olute duty.</P>
<P>This has been common but might now be reformed. As to be drawne forth, to make good &s;uch a place, or to be a re&s;erue to &s;uch a part <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &amp;c.</P>
<P>This is worthy of note, and not to be look <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> on as a fanta&s;y.</P>
<P>It concernes all faithfull Subject.</P></NOTE> that Maior that hath the command of a Brigade, the Enemy being drawn up in a Bat|talia in perfect view, it his duty with his A&s;&s;i&s;tants, as the el|de&s;t Major next him&s;elfe, provided his judgement be an&s;wera|ble to his place of Honour, with is his able&s;t Quarter-Ma&s;ter, to ride or goe on foot to &s;urvey their own ground, viewing their Enemy, how they lie &amp; an&s;werable to the &s;ame forme or figure: the Enemy is drawne up; &s;o to travi&s;e their owne ground, &s;o as they may draw up their men in Battalia for their be&s;t advantage and to confult in coun&s;ell of warre, when they returne unto their body in what nature they &s;hall fight, upon what di&s;advantage, retreat, how to make it good: and whe|ther this being done; the orders are fir&s;t given by the Com|mander in chiefe to all the Majors in the &s;aid Brigade, and e|very one of them to performe their duty of their place, which is to draw up the men according to their orders received and to &s;ight them an&s;werablely.</P>
<P>And truly for the Colonel, and Lievtenant-Colonel that &s;hall have comand, it may be they may attend upon the Command|er in chief, leaving the charge of their Regiment unto the Major, whil&s;t they ride to &amp; fro, and &s;ee fa&s;hions and fighting, of which &s;ort we have to many in our Armies: there &s;uperiour Officers &s;eeing of them by chance, certifies them of &s;ome duty that mu&s;t be performed by their Regiment, they pre&s;ently ride or &s;end to their Major, &amp; acquaint him with the orders which are performed by the &s;aid Major, &s;o by con&s;equence there is no duty properly belonging, either to Colonell or Lievtenant-Colonell: otherwi&s;e then what is performed by more nece&s;|&s;ary Officers, as being their ab&s;olute duty in their &s;everall re|&s;pective places, now the next thing we are to con&s;ider: is the revenewes that may be converted to better u&s;es, for I conceive there is more need of private Souldiers, then of &s;uperfluous Officers, and this will be a meanes to encourage men to adventure their lives, hazarding them&s;elves in greate&s;t dan|gers to &s;ee &s;uch great and unnece&s;&s;ary &s;ums deducted and their pay more con&s;tant, it being a meanes by which the Army is &s;trengthned, and kept full and compleat, imagine there be but fourty Colones in the whole Cavalry now imployed by the <HI>Honourable Hou&s;es of Parliament,</HI> their pay amounts to
<PB N="12" REF="7"><HI>per annum</HI> 73000.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Yee mu&s;t un|der&s;tand its at the rate but of 5. l. per die for every Co|lonel of hor&s;e. 45000. will pay 1200. hor&s;emen con&s;tantly year, to year, and there wil be 28000. remaining out of the 40. Colonells re|venews to pay Officers that are nece&s;&s;ary. The Liveten|ant Colonell of hor&s;e his pay wil main|taine 600. with con&s;tant pay, and if I be not much mi&s;taken the overpla&s;&s;e wil be about 16 or 17000. l. par annum, which w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> do very w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ll towards other charges. If we looke back, we &s;hall find an Army con&s;tantly paid out of that which hath bin allowed to unecce&s;&s;ary Officers, it con&s;i&s;ting of 1800. Hor&s;e and 4000. foet. H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">re we &s;hall find a fair <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">inning for a recrute to the former. 17520. l. per annum is the ful &s;ome of eight M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">j<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eneralls, pay at 6. l. pat die apeice, &s;o that in ca&s;e the&s;e Officers be ca&s;heered their &s;everall revenews will maintain 2100 of the Cava|lry, and 5500 of the infantry There is ne|ce&s;&s;ity of re|formation in the&s;e particu|lars as ought el&s;e, con&s;ider|ing the great charge the Kingdom is at the proceed|ing of our war being not an|&s;werable to tho&s;e in other Countries, though it is true our fights are more de&s;|perat butmain taind in no form for that they are not pitcht buine&s;&s;es by con&s;ent. For this very rea&s;on if they allow of the&s;e. Officers in their Armies, yet they are not u&s;efull to us.</NOTE> l. this revenew being expended for the pay|ment of the private Souldiers of the Cavaity would be con|&s;tant pay for 1200 at 2 <HI>s.</HI> 6 <HI>d. par die</HI> a peice, for 45700 is a ju&s;t yearely meanes, for 1200. &s;o many Lievtenant-Colonells being 40, in m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ber, amounts to 40000. l. <HI>par annum,</HI> or ther|abouts which if deducted will maintain about 600. Hor&s;emen as for Colonell and Lievtenant-Colonells of Infuntry, being both in number 200. their yearely revenews amounts to on 169910. l. <HI>par annum</HI> which may maintaine private Souldiers of the Infantry about 4000. paying them con&s;tantly. 8. <HI>d.</HI> by the day a peice all which being thus proved there ought to be a &s;erious con&s;ideration whether there be any particular duty to be performed by the&s;e Officers before mentiond, which is not performed by more nece&s;&s;ary Officers, as being their duty in place, for a Major-General under any Commander in chief of a Brigade, unle&s;&s;e in the Captain-Generalls, but as Major-Generall <HI>Potly</HI> was to Sir <HI>William VValler.</HI> I conceive there is no nece&s;&s;ity, for their duty may as well be performed by the elde&s;t Major of the Brigade and their pay converted to better u&s;es. If there be but eight Major-Generalls in all our Armies, they receive pay, if I be not exeedingly mi&s;taken, both as Major-Generalls &amp; Colonells, either of Hor&s;e or Foot, which amounts to great &s;ums, let pay day come never &s;o &s;eldome, it cometh too often for the &s;ervice they do, as it being their proper duty in either of tho&s;e places, by above 9. pay daies in 10. their revenews wil maintain 1500. of the infantry with con|&s;tant pay, the Major Generals pay at 6. l. <HI>per die</HI> a peice doth amount for eight of them to 17520 <HI>per annum,</HI> there are other Officers who&s;e revenews will ari&s;e to a great matter in the yeare, as the Commi&s;&s;ary to every Brigade, the word Gene|rall being excluded, and a&s;si&s;tant added, there will be &s;ome|what remaining towards the payment of the army and them|&s;elves well &s;atisfied: for the pay-ma&s;ter there is no u&s;e at all of him<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">f the Commi&s;&s;ary Generalls a&s;&s;i&s;tant be faithfull and indu&s;trious, we have examples hereof in the&s;e our Armies, to mine owne knowledge, where the Commi&s;&s;ary hath both mu&s;tred and payed, but my feare is he hath received pay for both Offices, which is mo&s;t unfit: for their pay is great, I verily beleeve, if the Auditor Generall were exempted and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">
<PB N="13" REF="7">Commi&s;&s;aryes of the &s;everall Brigades receive pay onely as a|&s;si&s;tant to the Commi&s;&s;ary Generall to the whole Army, there would be a &s;ufficient remainer out of what I conceive their re|venew doth amount to for maintaining 500. of the cava<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">try, &amp; make their places more benefitial then is any Captains place of the Infantry, the next thing we are to con&s;ider is, the di&s;ad|vantages that have and may ari&s;e to the State by rea&s;on of the over powreing notes of unnece&s;&s;ary officers at Councels of war as for this point I need not &s;tand much upon it con&s;idering we have had &s;o many &s;ad te&s;timons in the&s;e our times (how many town, have bin treacherou&s;ly delivered up to the mercy of the enemy,) nay I believe more had bin had not the multi|plicity of inferiours even pre&s;&s;ed down the over powring votes of &s;ome &s;uperfluous Officers, which though it may &s;eem con|trary to all good manners, yet it was mo&s;t befiting found judgement to contradict the humors, of indi&s;creat effeminate Commanders: the next thing we are to con&s;ider is of what can be &s;aid for the allowing of &s;uch places of Honour: and the difference between the&s;e our uncivill Civill Wars, and tho&s;e that are and have been in other Countries, &s;ome will &s;ay why &s;hould there not be &s;uch places of Honour in our armies here in <HI>England</HI> &s;ince we have other Countries for our pre&s;ident <HI>viz. Germany Sweedland, Neatherland, France, Spaine, &amp;c.</HI> cer|tainely they being &s;uch ab&s;olute Souldiers as they are, both for judgement and valour, they would not allow of &s;uch Officers as the Author here excludes, unle&s;&s;e there were a ne|ce&s;&s;ary duty to be performed by them, as in &s;atisfaction to this poynt. It is the <HI>Authors</HI> de&s;ire that any <HI>German. French, Sweedi&s;h,</HI> or other Commander of them al wilbe &s;o plea&s;ed as to di&s;pute this duty which they conceive properly to be per|formed by no other then tho&s;e Officers, or at lea&s;t out of curte&s;ie to informe his judgement what duty it is that any of them performes under a Commander in chiefe of a private Brigade: for that I have beene &s;omtimes a Souldier, &amp; as yet know of no duty at al that properly appertaines to them, why then to be allowed in out Armies, is it for forme &s;ake becau&s;e they are tolerated in other Countries, is it po&s;&s;ible the example of Forraine Nations &s;hould prove a pre&s;ident &s;o remarkable as we can no way &s;hew them one more noteable.
<PB N="14" REF="8">It is my de&s;ire that as this <HI>Honourable Parliament</HI> have done &s;o many worthyacts to their never dying fame, as makes them &s;eeme like &s;o many glorious &s;tats fixt in <HI>England Firmament</HI> to the view of the whol <HI>World</HI> &amp; almo&s;t to the a&s;toni&s;hment of <HI>Romes Stumpet</HI> &s;o that now they would be plea&s;ed to view this <HI>new reformed Army,</HI> drawne up in batalia by the judge|ment of a Loyall Subject, and faithfull Servant.</P>
<P>I imagine this Army con&s;i&s;t of 100000. hor&s;e and foot they are Commanded in chief by a Captain Generall, who accord|ing to all pre&s;idents hath a Life-guarde for his &s;ecurity of his owne per&s;on, to be in number 200. or 150. at lea&s;t of &s;uch Gentlemen, as &s;hall forth of love to the &s;aid General adven|ture them&s;elves to attend his per&s;on and to lead the Van of that part of the whole Army, which &s;hall at all times be re&s;i|dent with the &s;aid Generall: he is al&s;o to have one peculiar Re|giment of Hor&s;e, and two of Infantry, his Lieu: General to com|mand in chiefe two Regiments, the one Cavalry, &amp; the other of Infanfry: the Maior Generall to have an&s;werable tho&s;e &s;everal Regiments to be commanded under them, by no other, then Maiors: Every Regiment of Cavalry to con&s;i&s;t of 600. &amp; every of the Infantry a 1000.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">That is to &s;ay in His owne Brigade.</NOTE> at lea&s;t: And for &s;o many more Regiments as &s;hall be re&s;ident with the &s;aid Captaine Gene|rall, then what is before mentioned, to be commanded by no other Officers in chiefe,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">As Canoneers Gentlemen to the Ordnance Conductor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, Muntro&s;&s;es, Pioneers, &amp;c.</NOTE> then as above, unto the &s;ame there mu&s;t be a Livetenant Generall unto the traine, with all ne|ce&s;&s;ary Officers thereunto belonging: A Quarter-Ma&s;ter General, a Commi&s;&s;ary Gen: and a Scout-Ma&s;ter General, as to the whole Army, but are alwayes to attend the Captaine Ge|nerall: and if they have any command in the &s;aid Army: be|&s;ides,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><P>It may be a meanes to cau&s;e them neglect their more nece&s;&s;ary duties.</P>
<P>That is to be under|&s;tood as need &s;hall require.</P></NOTE> the&s;e afore-named Offices, it ought to be in the Captain Generals owne Regiment: but for their having other com|mand: I know no nece&s;&s;ity, by rea&s;on the other places are of great tru&s;t, and requires great vigilancy in the performance thereof: all which being drawn up, and commanded as afore|mentioned, and under them tho&s;e inferiour Officers without whom a Battalia cannot be maintained again&s;t an Enemy: And for the other Brigades, which are to make up the number of 100000. though &s;everally di&s;po|&s;ed into divers parts of the Kingdome, yet to be commanded in chief by no other then the elde&s;t Majors of the &s;ame Brig|ade;
<PB N="15" REF="8">and &s;o an&s;werablely every Regiment by no Colonell, nor Livetenant-Colonell, and yet may performe what by them &s;hall be undertaken in a more gallant and honourable way to them&s;elves, and with le&s;&s;e charge to the State, who imploy them by a 100000. l. <HI>par annum,</HI> then ever before, when they had all the unnece&s;&s;ary Officers to command them: yet I will not be my owne judge in this mater, but I leave the Con&s;e|quence to the con&s;iderations of whom it mo&s;t concernes, de&s;iring the GOD of Heaven, the chief Captaine of our Ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">s to be&s;tow upon our Commanders, who are conceived to be nece&s;&s;ary in our Armies, faithfull hearts towards him&s;elfe,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">As many have done but look upon the cau&s;e in it &s;elf.</NOTE> &amp; to the Cau&s;e they undertake, &s;o as they may take no place of hon|our upon them for any by or mercinary ends, but to joy in that God has plea&s;d to make them In&s;truments as in main|taining his Cau&s;e, &amp; to be Circum&s;pect as they may do no un|ju&s;t act, under the maske of that ju&s;t Cau&s;e: and with all &s;ound Judgement, &s;o as they may under&s;tand their duties in their &s;everall places, valour to go on in the performance of their duties, with undanted Heriock Spirits, humility, &s;o as they may win the hearts of their Souldiers to be in an equall ballance with their own, and conjoine together with all love, judgement; fidelity, and courage, again&s;t all which are now in Armes again&s;t God. Religion, Law, and Liberty. VVher|fore I now &s;hall de&s;ire every Officer &s;eriou&s;ly to con&s;ider their owne duties in their &s;everall places, before &s;uch time as to receive their charges.</P>
<P>After which they &s;hall find;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">It points out that they are weighty Charges they undertake, wherefore they mu&s;t not &s;o looke on the honour as thereby to be puft up with pride as it &s;hall cau&s;e them to waue their duty for &s;ure it is every Officer hath under GOD the charge of his Souldiers Lives more or le&s;&s;e ac|cording to his tru&s;t committed to him, when he receives his place of Honour.</NOTE> that for as many of tho&s;e men as &s;hall be under their &s;everall Commands and loo&s;e their Lives for their want of judgment, fidelity, &amp; valour, or through their neglect of duty in their &s;everall places, they mu&s;t give a &s;trict accompt for tho&s;e mens lives at the la&s;t day, and further they will &s;ee that there is no nece&s;&s;ary duty to be performed by tho&s;e Officers which in this my weake E&s;ayes I have excluded.</P>
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