A
Breife
and
true
report
of
the
Proceedings
of
the
Earle
of
Leycester
for
the
reliefe
of
the
Towne
of
Sluce
,
from
his
artiuall
at
Vlisshing
,
about
the
end
of
Iune
1587.
vntill
the
surrendrie
thereof
26.
Iulij
next
ensuing
.
Whereby
it
shall
plainelie
appeare
his
Excellencie
was
not
in
anie
fault
for
the
losse
of
that
Towne
.
Imprinted
at
London
.
1590.
To
the
Reader
Concerning
this
Addition
of
the
honorable
endeuours
of
the
Earle
of
Leycester
,
for
the
reliefe
of
Sluce
,
vpon
her
Maiesties
most
gracious
and
great
charges
,
in
fauour
of
the
States
of
the
vnited
Prouinces
.
IF
it
bee
tollerable
for
priuate
men
to
deliuer
in
print
,
Apologies
of
their
owne
doings
while
they
are
aliue
:
mutch
more
reasonable
I
think
it
for
the
trothe
of
such
matters
to
be
published
,
as
being
concealed
or
misconceaued
,
may
anie
way
touch
the
honor
of
so
Publique
a
person
as
the
Earle
of
Leycester
,
her
Maiesties
Generall
,
and
Gouernor
of
the
vnited
Prouinces
,
by
their
owne
free
election
,
now
deceased
,
and
not
aliue
to
answere
for
himselfe
.
Seeing
therefore
it
pleased
God
so
well
to
blesse
his
former
Actions
euen
from
his
entrance
into
that
Countrie
til
his
first
returne
to
England
,
that
he
had
cleered
both
the
Vellow
and
Bettowe
(
two
rich
,
pleasant
,
and
most
fertile
countries
)
of
al
Enemies
,
razed
and
defaced
al
their
Sconces
and
Castles
,
or
left
them
possessed
with
souldiers
of
our
own
,
and
so
greatlie
enlarged
the
Territories
&
contribucions
of
the
States
,
besides
the
taking
in
and
assuring
of
Deuxburgh
and
Deuenter
:
therby
also
diuerting
or
remouing
the
great
siedge
from
Berke
in
Ghelderland
,
besides
the
winning
of
Axell
in
Flaunders
,
without
the
loosing
of
any
one
Towne
,
Sconce
,
or
Castle
,
either
commanded
by
the
English
,
or
wherin
any
one
English
band
was
garry
soned
,
til
after
his
Excellencies
departure
:
some
priuate
pikes
and
particular
ambitious
grudges
(
grown
between
Stanley
,
Yorke
and
others
in
those
prouinces
,
)
caused
these
bad
persons
for
their
particular
passions
(
in
the
absence
of
his
Excellencie
)
so
much
to
forget
their
dueties
,
as
traiterously
to
deliuer
into
the
Enemies
hands
that
Towne
and
Sconce
,
by
Zutphen
.
God
hauing
I
say
so
exceedinglie
alwaies
prospered
his
Excellencie
during
his
abode
there
,
to
the
great
honour
and
renowne
of
her
Maiestie
,
as
his
most
malicious
Enemies
had
cause
rather
to
enuie
his
Fortune
,
than
backbite
his
Gouernment
;
&
no
one
Town
,
Forte
,
Castle
or
Sconce
lost
,
or
foyle
receaued
any
way
by
our
nation
vnder
him
,
till
the
losse
of
Sluyce
;
that
being
the
onely
thing
wherein
either
his
dispiteful
Enemies
,
or
ingrate
friends
or
folowers
(
strangers
or
English
)
can
finde
any
coullor
to
calumniate
his
militare
actions
.
Finding
yet
in
my
hands
a
briefe
and
true
relation
of
his
Excellencies
honorable
endeuours
vpon
her
Maiesties
gratious
great
and
extraordinarie
charges
to
relieue
that
Towne
(
by
me
euen
at
that
time
committed
to
writing
,
when
these
matters
were
in
Action
,
and
my self
present
both
at
the
Consultations
and
Executions
:
)
J
haue
thought
it
my
duetie
likewise
herewith
to
Print
and
publish
the
same
,
that
neither
the
Honourable
Patron
of
this
Treatise
now
dead
,
by
iniurious
imputations
be
vniustlie
wronged
,
nor
for
ignorance
of
the
trueth
the
world
seduced
,
to
thinke
the
Swanne
a
Crowe
,
or
the
Dawe
an
Eagle
.
But
conceiuing
matters
(
as
they
are
in
deede
)
guided
by
Gods
prouidence
,
we
may
learne
in
all
things
to
giue
him
all
glorie
,
and
modestly
acknowledging
truly
our
own
priuate
Errors
and
infirmities
,
to
endeuour
hereafter
to
amend
them
.
¶
A
true
report
of
his
Excellencies
carefull
proceedings
,
for
the
reliefe
of
Sluce
,
as
it
was
briefelie
set
downe
while
the
matter
was
in
action
.
HIS
Excellencie
arriuing
at
Vlisshing
toward
the
ende
of
Iune
,
bringing
with
him
about
30.
Ensignes
of
newe
leuied
Englishe
souldiers
,
found
the
Town
of
Sluce
beseiged
by
the
Duke
of
Parma
:
his
chiefe
forces
remayning
in
the
Ile
of
Cassand
,
where
himselfe
was
for
the
most
part
in
person
:
the
rest
in
St
Anns
Land
vnder
the
commaundement
of
La
Mote
,
salue
that
his
horse-men
,
with
some
bands
of
foote
,
were
dispersed
vpon
the
Coast
,
and
vpon
Straites
,
for
gard
of
Dikes
and
passages
in
sundrie
places
.
These
forces
of
the
Duke
of
Parma
,
were
lodged
in
such
a
sort
,
that
there
was
no
accesse
vnto
them
,
but
vpon
narrowe
banks
:
the
which
were
in
manie
places
retrenched
and
cut
off
in
such
sort
,
as
(
in
respect
of
the
aduantage
of
the
scituation
)
they
were
wel
able
to
haue
answered
,
treble
their
forces
that
should
by
land
haue
inuaded
them
.
By
sea
they
had
also
by
Piles
,
Shippes
and
boates
in
shew
crossed
the
hauen
,
and
planted
certaine
platformes
of
Ordinance
,
to
beat
such
ships
as
should
attempt
to
enter
to
succour
the
Towne
.
Neuerthelesse
,
in
the
iudgement
of
the
best
Militarie
men
,
this
was
founde
the
onely
waie
to
relieue
the
Towne
,
and
to
that
end
preparation
made
of
shippes
of
war
to
enter
,
&
one
or
two
shipes
especially
of
purpose
framed
with
fire
workes
very
artificially
,
to
haue
broken
any
Bridge
and
opened
a
passage
,
although
it
had
bene
much
more
forcibly
closed
than
indeed
that
was
.
True
it
is
that
the
Admirall
Nassau
and
his
sea
captaines
made
the
matter
verie
dangerous
,
and
required
that
the
forces
by
land
might
be
also
attempted
at
the
same
time
:
and
at
the
first
it
was
by
his
Excellencie
ment
that
the
Camp
should
haue
bene
assailed
3.
waies
.
viz
,
from
Isendick
Sconce
towards
Coxey
,
on
Cassand
,
&
from
Ostend
.
But
vpon
more
deliberate
consideration
of
the
scituation
of
these
places
:
it
was
found
,
that
after
wee
should
haue
surprized
the
Sconce
of
Isendick
there
was
no
possibility
to
martch
towards
Sluce
,
or
towards
the
Enemies
Camp
,
but
vpon
straight
Dikes
,
with
sundrie
abrupt
passages
by
them
fortified
in
such
sort
:
that
a
verie
fewe
might
haue
made
head
on
that
side
to
anie
great
Armie
,
and
not
to
be
passed
without
great
slaughter
of
our
people
:
and
long
time
before
we
could
approche
to
anie
blowes
with
the
Enemie
.
On
the
otherside
of
Cassand
the
coast
so
flat
and
farre
out
into
the
Sea
,
as
there
was
no
landing
,
but
as
men
must
wade
a
great
distance
in
the
water
,
subiect
to
all
the
shot
of
the
Enemie
that
might
lye
couered
vnder
the
marsh
banks
,
and
then
no
way
to
approch
the
Camp
,
but
vpon
fortified
straights
as
before
.
It
was
therefore
concluded
,
that
the
onely
way
to
approch
the
Campe
by
land
,
was
,
from
Ostend
,
where
his
Excellencie
might
in
safetie
land
his
forces
,
&
so
march
to
seeke
the
Enemie
on
firme
ground
in
militarie
order
not
confusedly
with
so
great
disaduantage
as
on
the
other
parts
.
In
the
meane
time
diuers
Burgers
of
Vlisshing
(
that
mistrusted
the
coldnesse
of
the
Admiraltie
and
States
)
made
offer
to
his
Excellencie
,
that
if
they
might
haue
shipping
they
would
vndertake
to
enter
the
Hauen
:
and
put
into
the
Town
both
men
and
munition
without
attending
any
attempt
to
bee
made
vpon
the
Enemie
by
land
,
which
they
sawe
to
be
a
matter
of
great
hazard
&
not
possible
in
reason
to
take
anie
effect
,
the
strong
scituation
of
the
Enemies
Campe
considered
.
The
reasons
that
mooued
them
to
doubt
the
coldenesse
of
the
Admiraltie
were
these
.
They
knew
them
to
bee
persons
whollie
at
the
deuotion
of
the
States
:
howe
small
care
the
States
tooke
of
Sluce
,
Ostend
,
or
anie
other
Townes
in
Flaunders
was
they
say
apparant
long
before
,
when
their
souldiers
by
their
Euill
pay
&
prouisions
,
were
manie
times
reduced
to
such
extremities
,
as
it
was
greatlie
doubted
that
necessitie
shoulde
constraine
them
to
deliuer
vp
the
townes
to
the
Enemie
.
And
the
yeare
1586.
when
his
Excellencie
was
mooued
to
haue
imployed
his
forces
into
Flaunders
,
(
where
no
doubt
he
might
haue
wonne
immortall
honour
,
and
reduced
againe
the
most
part
of
that
Country
to
the
vnited
prouinces
)
the
States
generally
euer
disliked
of
anie
Enterprize
that
way
:
and
perswaded
his
Excellencie
wholly
to
that
other
course
of
Ghelderland
,
OuerYsell
.
&c.
The
reasons
that
mooued
the
States
thereto
,
some
suppose
were
these
.
First
,
if
Flaunders
should
bee
regained
,
then
a
great
number
of
wealthie
men
(
that
were
nowe
in
Holland
setled
)
would
returne
thither
,
and
so
impouerish
greatlie
the
wealth
of
Holland
;
and
the
States
of
Holland
carrieng
now
the
whole
or
chiefe
swaye
,
would
none
of
that
.
Another
reason
was
,
that
they
found
those
garrisons
of
Sluce
,
Axell
,
Ostend
,
&c.
to
exhaust
much
of
the
Holland
contributions
,
and
not
to
yeelde
any
commoditie
againe
.
But
the
third
and
most
forcible
of
all
,
was
,
that
they
had
as
it
was
thought
conceaued
a
certain
icalousie
that
Flaunders
lying
so
neere
England
,
her
Maiestie
might
seaze
to
her
owne
vse
all
such
Ports
,
Townes
,
and
places
of
strength
as
should
bee
gayned
there
,
and
hauing
conuenient
Ports
so
neere
her
Realme
for
conuenient
receipt
and
succour
of
her
Shipping
,
should
by
that
meanes
be
able
to
rule
them
,
and
not
be
ruled
by
them
.
These
iealousies
and
conceipts
are
supposed
to
bee
the
causes
that
haue
made
the
Estates
so
colde
and
backward
in
the
relieuing
this
Towne
of
Sluce
,
albeit
the
These
insolent
speeches
of
the
people
were
repressed
by
a
sharp
penall
●dict
of
the
States
made
and
proclaymed
at
Middleburgh
,
immediatly
after
the
losse
of
Sluce
.
common
people
in
many
places
,
speake
more
broadly
,
and
say
plainely
that
the
States
from
time
to
time
haue
victualled
the
enemie
,
making
to
them
of
Holland
,
thereby
an
infinite
gayne
,
and
that
the
enemie
had
good
assurance
from
some
of
them
before
his
Siedge
of
Sluce
,
that
hee
should
not
bee
impeached
by
them
.
Whereunto
they
ad
many
shrewde
Presumptions
:
First
,
that
the
Enemie
was
continuallie
victualled
by
their
sufferance
and
Licences
:
Secondly
,
that
euen
a
little
before
Sluce
was
besiedged
,
the
States
sent
for
certaine
of
the
best
bands
out
of
the
Towne
,
which
the
Gouernour
would
not
consent
vnto
:
Thirdly
,
that
certaine
Shippes
were
of
purpose
run
a
ground
before
Sluce
in
such
sort
as
the
enemies
horsemen
might
take
them
:
without
which
it
was
not
possible
to
haue
made
any
shewe
of
stopping
vp
the
channell
.
Last
of
all
their
strange
backwardnesse
in
giuing
aide
anie
way
by
men
or
munition
,
when
Captaine
Hart
and
others
of
Vlisshing
offered
them
to
enter
before
his
Excellencies
arriuall
.
So
that
if
Sir
William
Russell
Lord
Gouernour
of
Vlisshing
,
had
not
verie
prouidentlie
&
earnestly
trauailed
to
send
in
such
prouisions
as
vpon
the
sodaine
hee
prouided
:
the
Towne
had
beene
much
more
destitute
of
all
meanes
to
hold
out
than
it
was
.
But
albeit
I
am
not
carried
so
farre
as
to
belecue
all
the
people
speake
(
though
vox
populi
be
manie
times
for
truth
termed
vox
Dei
:
especiallie
when
it
is
grounded
vpon
long
triall
and
experience
:
)
yet
that
by
fruits
the
tree
may
be
discerned
,
and
so
a
right
estimate
made
of
these
coniectures
;
I
will
report
as
neere
as
I
can
the
certaine
truth
how
matters
haue
passed
,
&
what
assistance
his
Excellencie
hath
receiued
from
the
States
for
this
important
enterprize
for
the
●eleife
of
Sluce
.
First
his
Excellencie
vpon
his
arriuall
,
finding
in
his
absence
strange
effects
wrought
by
bad
practizes
of
his
Enemies
,
who
(
perhaps
aspiring
to
aduaunce
themselues
,
or
to
blemish
his
Honour
)
did
in
the
meane
time
foster
the
seedes
of
most
seditious
discord
,
tending
to
the
Ruyne
of
these
Prouinces
,
and
great
hinderance
of
hir
Maiesties
seruice
here
:
His
Excellencie
(
I
say
)
found
it
verie
conuenient
,
first
to
do
all
his
best
endeuours
to
reduce
this
infected
bodie
to
health
:
And
to
effect
the
same
,
forgiuing
all
iniuries
doone
to
himselfe
,
laboring
nothing
but
the
safetie
of
these
Prouinces
committed
to
his
charge
,
immediatly
vpon
his
landing
wrote
for
an
assemblie
of
the
States
at
Middleburgh
:
where
after
he
had
too
long
time
(
in
respect
of
his
vrgent
affaires
)
attended
them
in
vaine
,
he
went
in
person
to
Berghen
vp
zome
,
and
after
to
Dort
,
to
effect
onely
his
first
purpose
:
to
recure
all
seditious
wounds
,
and
to
drawe
all
in
one
line
to
the
reliefe
of
this
beseiged
Towne
:
Not
omitting
in
the
meane
time
to
bestowe
in
seuerall
Garrisons
his
newe
leuied
vnarmed
Souldiers
,
with
order
for
their
speedie
arming
;
and
in
steede
of
them
calling
togeather
from
Garrisons
farre
and
wide
dispersed
,
foure
thowsand
or
there
abouts
of
the
old
bandes
in
her
Maiesties
pay
,
and
such
as
being
armed
&
furnished
were
before
the
fifteenth
of
Iulie
in
case
to
be
employed
in
seruice
.
In
the
meane
time
his
Excellencie
beeing
desirous
to
knowe
what
assistance
he
might
expect
from
the
States
of
the
Countrie
Forces
,
a
booke
was
del●uered
to
the
L.
Marshall
,
of
twentie
foure
thowsand
souldiers
in
their
pay
,
besides
two
thowsand
horse
or
thereabouts
,
and
besides
hir
Maiesties
aydes
.
Of
all
these
their
Forces
for
so
important
a
seruice
,
if
they
would
onlie
haue
deliuerd
foure
thowsand
souldiers
,
his
Excellencie
was
determined
with
them
and
the
rest
of
his
English
bands
without
regard
of
any
perrill
to
haue
assalted
the
Campe
.
But
notwithstanding
the
importunate
solicitations
of
his
Excellencie
,
&
pressing
also
of
his
aucthoritie
(
albeit
Count
Hollock
had
at
that
time
as
it
is
saide
six
thowsand
men
in
Brabant
in
Armes
)
before
the
losse
of
the
Towne
,
he
was
neuer
able
to
get
from
them
any
one
band
of
theirs
:
and
with
great
difficultie
could
obtaine
to
haue
the
English
which
were
with
him
.
True
it
is
,
that
the
Burgers
of
Middlebrough
and
Vlisshing
did
verie
willingly
offer
their
assistance
;
but
they
were
but
fewe
:
and
that
was
doone
vtterlie
without
aide
or
assistance
of
the
States
.
With
these
smale
forces
of
thirtie
English
Ensignes
,
with
foure
Cornets
of
horse
;
his
Excellencie
sent
Sir
William
Pelham
the
L.
Marshall
accompanied
with
the
Lord
Willoughby
,
Sir
William
Russell
,
and
manie
other
persons
of
Honor
and
account
,
into
Flaunders
:
hauing
besides
some
few
Companies
of
this
Country
,
that
he
had
raised
vpon
hir
Maiesties
charge
;
&
that
voluntarily
from
Middleburgh
and
Vlisshing
,
offered
themselues
for
the
guard
of
his
person
,
part
whereof
were
also
left
to
accompanie
Collo
:
Morgan
,
who
was
by
his
Excellencie
appoynted
to
ioyne
with
the
Admirall
Nassau
to
enter
the
Hauen
.
In
the
meane
time
,
the
L.
Marshall
thus
accompanied
the
twenty
of
Iuly
arriued
at
Ostend
:
and
being
readie
the
xxij
.
to
haue
marched
;
his
Excellencie
arriued
there
,
and
resting
the
xxiij
which
was
Sonday
,
the
foure
and
twentie
day
in
the
morning
,
we
marched
towards
the
This
23.
day
in
Ostend
his
Excellencie
was
like
to
haue
beene
slaine
with
a
bullet
that
strake
into
a
Iawme
of
his
windowe
right
before
him
,
and
the
Lord
Wentworth
with
the
splinters
thereof
hurt
in
the
face
.
Enemie
;
his
Excellencie
being
the
same
night
returned
toward
the
Fleete
,
which
lay
in
readines
at
the
mouth
of
the
Harbor
,
to
take
the
aduantage
of
the
spring
tides
;
and
to
haue
entred
the
Hauen
:
aswell
●o
haue
deuided
the
Forces
,
wherewith
they
of
Cassand
should
haue
succored
them
of
Saint
Anns
Land
when
wee
should
charge
them
,
as
also
to
put
in
men
and
Munition
into
the
Towne
.
With
this
small
Armie
of
30.
or
32.
Ensignes
of
Foote
,
and
foure
Cornets
of
horse
,
we
marched
on
the
plaine
sands
of
Flaunders
,
10
or
12.
miles
towards
Sluce
Towne
,
and
rested
not
till
wee
came
to
Blankenburgh
Sluce
where
wee
found
a
strong
Sconce
made
to
stop
vp
the
passage
:
guarded
with
fiue
or
sixe
Ensignes
of
Wallons
.
The
Sconce
reached
from
the
Marshes
down
to
the
Sea
,
and
closed
vp
the
passage
in
such
sort
that
without
taking
in
of
that
Sconce
;
there
was
no
passage
for
our
Armie
to
set
on
their
Campe
,
but
only
at
very
dead
lowe
water
,
and
that
with
many
difficulties
&
extreame
discommodities
too
long
to
be
particularly
set
downe
.
Neuerthelesse
it
was
resolued
by
the
Lord
Marshall
,
and
the
Militarie
councel
that
without
farther
delay
an
attempt
should
bee
made
to
hewe
downe
the
Pallizado
and
by
scale
to
enter
:
and
if
that
tooke
not
effect
,
then
in
the
Euening
at
dead
lowe
water
without
farder
delay
to
march
by
it
.
And
albeit
the
Armie
came
wearie
to
that
place
about
noone
,
yet
was
it
resolued
the
assault
should
bee
giuen
before
foure
of
the
clock
.
In
the
meane
time
the
Fort
was
viewed
round
by
sundrie
persons
of
iudgement
,
and
30.
or
40.
s●●ine
and
hurt
in
the
approaches
and
view
therof
with
the
shot
both
great
and
small
,
that
played
continuallie
out
of
the
Fort
among
vs
.
In
the
meane
time
the
Duke
of
Parma
,
being
aduertised
how
nere
our
Armie
was
come
to
his
Camp
,
and
our
Resolution
perceaued
by
our
discoueries
and
nere
approaches
,
the
Prince
rose
as
we
were
enformed
after
with
a
choice
Regiment
to
stay
vsthere
,
which
in
deed
he
might
ful
easelie
haue
done
to
an
Armie
fiue
times
as
great
as
ours
was
,
the
scituation
of
the
fort
considered
.
But
his
Excellencie
being
in
the
meane
time
by
contrarietie
of
winde
stayed
,
could
not
reach
the
Floate
but
lay
before
Blankenburgh
Sl●ce
,
&
beholding
the
strength
of
the
place
,
and
the
impossibilitie
for
vs
to
passe
or
to
get
so
strong
a
plat
in
any
conuenient
time
to
relieue
the
siedged
Towne
,
sent
Sir
Harry
Goodyere
a
land
vnto
vs
with
commandement
immediatlie
without
losse
of
time
to
returne
to
Ostend
,
there
to
Imbarque
the
Armie
againe
,
and
speedely
to
returne
to
the
Floate
before
the
best
spring
tides
should
passe
to
enter
the
Hauen
,
&
also
to
land
our
Army
there
vpon
them
,
with
resolution
to
put
it
to
any
fortune
,
rather
than
to
loose
that
Towne
.
The
25.
at
night
we
imbarked
againe
at
Ostend
,
and
T●esday
the
D●ke
of
Par●●seeing
the
returne
of
our
Armie
yeelded
to
any
condition
of
honorable
parting
,
that
our
besiedged
could
dem●nd
.
●●che
denying
them
a●ie
delay
,
or
libertie
to
aduertise
the
Earle
of
L●ycester
,
being
this
day
with
his
Army
within
one
League
of
their
Camp
before
the
H●uen
●outh
,
●nd
readie
at
the
highest
spring
to
enter
.
the
26.
being
Wednesday
being
arriued
at
the
Float
,
we
found
his
Excellencie
in
consultation
with
Count
Maurice
,
the
Admirall
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Sea
Captaines
for
entring
the
Hauen
:
who
alledging
many
di●ficulties
and
perrils
,
deliuering
many
reasons
(
such
as
they
were
)
why
they
entred
not
the
Hauen
according
to
agreement
:
At
that
time
his
Excellencie
plainelie
and
openly
charged
both
Count
Maurice
and
his
brother
Nassau
,
that
when
the
Burgers
of
Vlisshing
made
him
the
offer
long
before
to
haue
performed
it
:
that
they
answered
,
they
had
the
best
Pilots
,
Captaines
and
shipping
readie
in
their
handes
,
and
could
and
would
performe
it
themselues
,
which
they
could
not
well
denie
:
&
yet
would
not
plainly
confesse
,
but
that
it
was
with
certaine
conditions
,
Crauing
that
his
Excellencie
would
first
appoynt
some
with
them
to
view
the
Hauen
.
In
the
The
Enemie
very
politiquelie
made
the
Commanders
in
Sluce
,
belecue
our
Armie
was
fled
at
midnight
from
Blankenburgh
whereas
wee
marched
a
way
in
the
day
before
sunne-set
,
in
order
of
Battaile
,
and
no
charge
or
attempt
made
by
any
one
horse
or
foote
vpon
our
rereward
,
nor
shot
dis●harged
after
vs
,
but
onelie
out
of
the
Sconce
.
meane
time
by
these
their
former
dalliances
:
the
Town
being
before
growne
desperate
of
succour
,
the
verie
same
day
while
these
thinges
were
thus
in
debating
,
Sir
Roger
Williams
(
not
knowing
vpon
what
resolution
we
were
called
back
from
Blankenburgh
,
entred
into
Parley
;
and
the
Duke
denying
no
demaunds
they
could
set
downe
of
Honorable
parting
)
onelie
denying
them
anie
time
of
respite
to
aduertize
his
Excellencie
,
because
he
knewe
they
might
and
of
likelihood
feared
they
should
haue
bene
succoured
by
sea
before
the
best
spring
tides
were
past
.
The
commaunders
of
the
Towne
being
of
like
out
of
hope
of
anie
ayde
by
sea
,
)
aswell
in
respect
of
the
small
comfort
,
retourned
from
the
States
by
Captaine
Hart
,
as
also
by
the
strange
newes
and
aduertisements
they
receaued
continually
as
they
say
from
their
Enemies
,
being
greatlie
distressed
by
their
vnhappie
losse
of
the
west
Dike
.
And
seeing
how
hard
a
matter
,
it
should
be
with
far
greater
Forces
than
ours
in
any
short
time
to
defeat
the
Camp
,
being
so
strongly
lodged
,
hauing
most
honorable
conditions
of
Surrendrie
yeelded
vnto
by
the
Duke
of
Parma
,
they
concluded
,
and
the
same
day
after
our
Armie
arriued
at
the
Floate
,
whilst
his
Excellencie
was
in
consultation
for
entrie
of
the
Hauen
,
(
viz.
)
on
the
26.
day
of
Iulie
.
1587
they
sent
away
Master
Sentliger
to
his
Excellencie
with
This
surrendry
was
made
two
or
three
dayes
before
the
spring
tides
were
past
,
and
the
day
before
the
highest
spring
was
come
.
notice
of
their
surrendrie
alreadie
made
:
and
this
is
the
plaine
and
naked
trueth
of
this
action
.
I
may
not
omit
,
that
,
albeit
his
Excellencie
was
furnished
out
of
England
with
Pouder
,
Munition
,
and
Money
:
So
as
there
was
nothing
then
from
the
States
required
but
for
Money
,
to
haue
victualls
and
boates
and
Skiffes
to
land
our
Armie
,
and
Carriages
to
conuey
,
Munition
,
Victuals
,
&c.
For
boates
and
Skiffes
to
land
our
men
,
on
those
flat
Coasts
we
had
not
sufficient
to
disbarke
our
little
Armie
in
one
whole
day
.
And
for
Waggons
his
Excellencie
could
not
get
inough
to
carrie
two
daies
victualls
with
vs
to
Blankenburgh
,
and
yet
diuers
chiefe
persons
and
officers
of
our
small
Armie
for
want
of
Carriage
forced
to
leaue
their
Tents
behinde
them
:
So
that
for
this
Action
I
knowe
not
what
the
States
could
doe
more
to
make
the
world
beleeue
the
common
voyce
of
the
people
(
for
their
correspondence
with
the
Enemie
;
or
smal
care
for
the
losse
of
any
Towne
in
Flaunders
)
to
bee
to
true
:
neither
can
I
imagine
what
was
possible
for
any
Generall
(
either
for
trauell
of
his
owne
bodie
both
by
Land
and
Sea
,
or
for
contempt
of
all
perrill
to
his
owne
person
,
or
by
carefull
Prouidence
,
and
singular
Patience
being
so
ingratefully
&
maliciouslie
crossed
,
to
do
more
than
his
Excellencie
hath
done
:
whatsoeuer
common
opinion
(
led
onelie
with
bare
euents
)
may
conceaue
of
it
.
Another
Addition
concerning
certain
chiefe
Officers
of
an
Armie
.
Wherein
by
conference
of
the
repugnant
conditions
in
the
Good
and
Bad
,
both
the
Officers
themselues
may
the
better
knowe
and
indeauour
to
perso●rme
their
duties
:
and
all
others
also
thereby
discerning
clecreliect
what
Ranke
they
bee
,
may
yeelde
them
Honour
or
Reproofe
,
according
to
their
merites
.
HAuing
both
by
reading
,
conference
&
experience
found
before
I
bare
office
in
her
Maiesties
Armie
commaunded
by
that
right
honorable
Earle
of
Leycester
in
the
Low
Countreyes
,
how
manie
dangerous
Inconueniences
ensue
,
where
true
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
them
to
an
other
Ga●rison
,
&
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
will
not
be
vngratefull
to
him
,
seeing
he
mindes
&
hath
good
meanes
to
requite
their
courtesie
ten
●●lde
out
of
the
Princes
purse
.
|
This
Officer
as
hee
would
not
(
to
gaine
a
Million
)
doo
any
Captaine
a
penie
wrong
.
So
will
hee
not
for
the
fauour
of
the
greatest
persons
in
the
Armie
,
●●●●●●erest
kinne
or
Friends
straigne
his
conscience
to
abute
his
Prince
one
pennie
:
and
therefore
presents
the
Checque
t●ulie
,
as
hee
undes
it
:
and
leaues
all
fauour
to
be
shewed
by
the
Lord
Generall
onelie
.
|
Such
an
Officer
being
of
another
mould
will
none
of
these
melancholie
courses
,
he
will
pleasure
his
Friends
and
crosse
his
Enemies
,
and
make
them
●●●o
he
is
an
Officer
can
please
or
displease
them
.
But
〈…〉
hee
will
not
for
all
that
,
and
for
his
excuse
alledg●th
,
that
P●in●es
Cookes
may
giue
a
good
followe
a
peece
of
biese
,
and
the
Butlers
or
〈…〉
a
cup
of
of
Wine
or
Beere
,
and
that
hee
will
shew
his
friends
a
cast
of
his
Office
.
|
This
officer
procureth
orders
also
to
bee
established
for
training
of
the
Souldiers
,
and
himselfe
requireth
the
Captaines
to
performe
them
:
and
to
encourage
men
to
doe
well
,
will
not
spare
out
of
his
owne
purse
to
giue
rewardes
to
such
shot
as
by
proofe
he
findes
the
best
marck
men
.
|
Such
an
Officer
wil
none
of
this
,
saying
,
it
is
but
a
t●●
moyling
of
Captaines
and
Souldiers
,
and
●●ruding
on
the
Captaines
Offices
to
●ssend
and
discontent
them
,
and
that
braue
men
should
not
be
controlled
,
or
the
imperfection
of
their
Souldiers
disc●uered
by
such
open
exercises
,
and
that
such
expences
are
foolish
,
and
make
more
Enemies
than
Friends
.
|
This
officer
will
not
accept
pennie
nor
pennie
worth
of
anie
Captaine
or
Souldier
more
than
the
Fee
due
to
his
office
,
and
that
not
as
a
beneuolence
secretely
,
but
as
his
due
openlie
.
|
Such
an
Officer
will
accept
anie
thing
,
Money
or
ware
,
so
it
come
secretlie
:
and
like
a
good
fellowe
will
(
on
the
Princes
purse
)
requite
it
ten
folde
,
as
easely
he
may
doo
,
and
none
but
his
Fellowe
Theeues
able
to
accuse
him
.
|
This
officer
reposing
himselfe
only
on
God
and
his
cleare
conscience
,
laboreth
not
to
make
other
frendes
but
his
Prince
and
Generall
:
And
for
the
Generall
himselfe
,
will
not
straigne
his
conscience
anie
way
,
though
hee
bee
sure
of
manie
Enemies
and
small
backing
:
&
euen
to
his
Prince
for
faithfull
seruice
store
of
false
backbi●ings
:
yea
the
Swanne
must
be
made
a
Crowe
,
and
the
Faulcon
a
Bussard
.
|
Such
an
Officer
will
not
only
for
the
Generall
,
but
for
ante
other
person
of
authoritie
straine
his
Conscience
any
way
,
and
to
all
other
Captaines
also
so
kinde
and
liberall
of
her
Maiestie
purse
as
he
is
generallie
extolled
for
a
braue
man
,
an
honorable
Officer
,
an
honorable
minde
:
yea
,
and
his
Pri●ce
also
whome
he
deceaues
horribly
shall
be
perswaded
the
Dawe
is
an
●agle
,
and
the
Cuckee
a
Nightingale
.
|
This
officer
,
as
hee
is
thus
precise
himselfe
,
as
neither
to
giue
pen●i●
for
such
an
Office
,
nor
to
receiue
●●ibe
or
beneuolence
more
then
dewe
fees
:
So
maketh
hea
matter
of
conscience
whilest
he
carrieth
such
office
to
giue
to
anie
of
his
honorable
frendes
anie
present
:
least
they
or
others
shoulde
haue
cause
to
suspect
he
did
it
to
bee
borne
out
in
a
nie
lewde
action
.
|
Such
an
Officer
hath
no
such
●●lancholie
conceipt
,
but
as
hee
will
take
〈…〉
,
so
will
hee
giue
sran●elie
to
them
can
beare
him
●●●
:
and
such
a
one
as
Captaines
,
C●llwells
great
Officers
,
and
all
shall
extoll
,
how
shall
his
Prince
but
like
of
to
,
considering
the
more
hee
robbes
her
,
the
more
Friends
hee
makes
,
and
the
more
hee
shall
bee
praised
.
So
,
as
if
there
were
no
God
,
the
honest
were
in
deede
to
be
begged
for
a
right
naturall
Foole
.
|
¶
A
Briefe
conference
of
two
Pagadores
,
or
Militarie
Threasurers
.
The
one
a
man
iust
and
honest
,
content
with
his
stipend
:
yealding
both
to
the
Prince
and
subiect
their
dewe
.
The
other
vnduely
exacting
.
&
by
deuice
meaning
to
abuse
(
if
it
bee
not
preuented
)
may
defraud
both
Prince
,
subiect
,
soldier
,
&
allies
of
there
due
.
For
distinction
sake
expressed
by
the
seuerall
names
of
Threasurer
,
and
Pagadore
.
The
Good
.
|
The
bad
.
|
THis
Treasurer
liueth
modestlie
,
rather
sparing
then
spending
:
that
hee
may
haue
no
neede
to
abuse
his
Soueraigne
,
nor
crush
the
Souldier
.
|
THis
Pagadore
liueth
prodigalli●
,
spending
in
vanities
immeasurablie
:
so
that
it
is
not
possible
for
him
to
continue
,
vnlesse
hee
abuse
both
Soueraigne
,
Subiects
,
and
allies
exceedingly
.
|
This
Treasurer
will
desire
yearely
,
yea
quarterlie
to
make
his
accompts
that
all
may
be
cleare
and
liquide
.
|
Such
a
Padagore
shunneth
by
almeans
clere
accompts
,
&
would
neither
quarterly
nor
yearely
,
nor
once
in
7.
yeare
make
an
orderly
liquid
account
of
he
could
by
friends
or
deuice
delay
it
.
|
This
Treasurer
will
not
by
a●i
meanes
accept
from
anie
Captaine
,
Victualler
,
Marchant
or
Souldier
,
Bill
or
Acquittance
for
a
peny
more
than
he
truely
paies
him
ready
coyne
.
|
Such
a
Padagore
will
ha●e
both
warrat
&
acquittance
for
the
whole
,
and
then
giue
a
priuate
attestation
of
the
due
to
the
Captaine
,
clere
about
all
desalcations
.
|
This
Treasurer
will
haue
a
speciall
care
to
see
the
Souldiers
first
paid
their
dewe
.
|
Such
a
Pagadore
cares
not
whether
any
Souldier
be
paide
or
no
so
he
haue
the
Captaines
warrant
and
acquittance
to
accompt
with
an
absent
Auditor
,
&c.
|
This
Treasurer
when
hee
●eccons
with
a
captaine
,
and
defaulkes
billes
of
debt
to
Victuallers
,
Armorers
,
and
other
creditors
,
hee
will
not
desire
anie
acquaintance
of
the
Captaine
for
those
defalcations
,
vnlesse
he
haue
in
deede
paid
them
:
and
then
will
hee
also
deliuer
vp
to
the
Captaine
those
bills
,
when
hee
taketh
the
Captaines
generall
Acquittance
.
|
Such
a
Pagadore
(
after
hee
hath
defaulked
all
bilis
and
debts
he
can
get
or
heare
of
,
for
Victuallers
,
Mercers
,
Taylors
,
Merchants
,
&c.
)
taketh
the
Captaines
quittance
for
al
,
&
giueth
him
an
attestation
of
the
surplusage
dew
to
him
(
if
any
bee
)
and
so
recconeth
with
the
absent
Auditor
of
the
presse
with
his
warrant
and
quittance
,
as
though
all
these
defalcations
were
truelie
paid
,
when
the
most
part
in
trueth
are
vnpaide
,
and
hereby
the
Princes
pay
iniuriously
slandered
,
when
this
Pagadore
hath
it
in
his
hands
allowed
him
.
|
This
Treasurer
wil
alwaies
deliuer
vnto
the
Captaine
a
bill
,
particularlie
expressing
how
much
hee
hath
paid
in
readie
monie
to
the
Captaine
,
and
how
much
in
defalcatious
:
expressing
euerie
defalcation
,
for
what
,
to
whom
,
and
how
much
particularlie
,
taking
a
double
therof
signed
by
the
Captaine
,
and
this
particular
double
will
he
leaue
in
the
Auditors
handes
to
be
examined
.
|
Such
a
Pagadore
will
hardlie
deliuer
vnder
his
hand
to
the
Cattaine
any
such
particular
of
his
defalcations
,
nor
yet
by
any
meanes
any
coppie
or
double
thereof
to
the
Auditor
to
be
examined
:
but
rather
seeke
all
deuices
to
huddle
vp
thinges
in
confusion
:
knowing
,
it
is
good
Fishing
in
pudled
water
,
according
to
the
olde
Prouerb
.
|
This
Treasurer
hauing
deliuered
his
Accompts
in
this
plaine
particuler
manner
to
the
Auditor
,
desires
him
to
let
all
men
see
his
Accompt
that
demaund
it
,
and
to
giue
copies
of
ani●
part
thereof
to
anie
man
that
will
pay
the
Auditors
clarkes
for
it
:
w●sturgit
it
may
be
si●ted
whether
any
de●eleation
contained
in
the
some
of
the
●●●ptaines
acqui●tance
,
bee
not
sust
by
him
truely
paid
:
For
ver●t●●s
w●nq●ar●t
Angulos
.
|
Such
a
Pagadore
hauing
reckoned
with
the
warrant
and
Captaines
acquittance
in
grosse
,
without
expressing
any
particularities
of
the
defalcations
,
desireth
the
Aaditor
to
●●●
them
safely
vp
in
a
Chest
with
two
locks
and
keyes
whereof
the
Treasurer
to
haue
one
.
So
as
these
accomptes
that
all
men
ought
to
see
)
must
bee
kept
,
tanquam
Eleusina
Mysteria
:
&
●o
part
be
seene
of
any
griened
person
:
till
he
can
get
the
Treasurer
and
Auditor
together
:
a
matter
as
easie
as
to
catch
an
hare
with
a
Taber
.
|
This
Treasurer
deales
thus
plainly
to
a●oyd
all
suspition
of
srand
.
meaning
neither
to
abuse
the
Prince
nor
Subject
of
a
pennie
,
and
to
keepe
himselfe
not
onely
voide
of
Faul●e
,
but
of
all
suspition
of
Fraude
and
deceipt
.
|
Such
a
Pagadore
hauing
many
thousands
of
the
Princes
Treasure
in
his
hands
of
these
defalcations
pretended
to
bee
payd
by
these
former
subtilties
(
keeping
all
in
darke
confusion
)
careth
not
what
the
world
thinketh
of
him
,
or
how
they
exclaime
or
slander
the
Queenes
pay
,
nor
how
many
perish
for
want
of
that
hee
hath
in
his
hands
of
theirs
.
|
This
Treasurer
dealing
iustly
in
the
sight
of
God
,
laboureth
not
to
get
him
manie
frends
or
fauorers
,
by
Banqucting
,
Presents
,
or
otherwise
:
reposing
his
trust
in
God
,
and
his
iust
dealing
.
|
Such
a
Pagadore
bendeth
all
his
witts
to
vse
al
meanes
to
make
friends
knowing
that
Iustice
and
right
is
his
Confusion
,
and
therefore
Per
fas
atque
nefas
hunteth
for
Fauour
to
keep
him
from
accompts
liquid
,
and
to
keepe
all
in
darkenes
by
delayes
:
Qui
malè
agit
,
odit
lucem
.
|
This
Treasurerif
he
haue
not
treasure
sufficient
to
pay
all
defalcations
,
setreth
down
plainlie
to
the
Auditor
which
are
paid
,
&
which
are
vnpaid
:
●olding
it
a
burden
of
conscience
that
anie
man
should
die
vnpaid
by
his
default
.
|
Such
a
Pagadore
cares
not
how
many
creditors
dye
after
hee
hath
made
his
obscure
defalcations
:
knowing
that
by
their
death
it
is
clerely
gained
to
himselfe
:
Neither
forcing
how
the
Princes
honorable
pay
bee
slandered
,
nor
how
many
die
for
want
of
their
dew
by
him
wasted
prodigallie
.
|
This
Treasurer
thinketh
it
a
matter
of
conscience
while
he
is
Officer
,
to
make
anie
presentes
,
euen
to
his
honorable
good
frendes
:
least
either
they
or
other
,
should
think
he
did
it
to
be
fauor●d
in
some
vniust
actions
|
Such
a
Pagadore
hath
no
such
melancholie
conceipt
,
but
will
giue
or
lend
lustely
to
any
that
will
take
,
if
he
see
any
meanes
how
they
may
protract
his
accompt
,
yea
to
such
honorable
persons
as
hee
knoweth
will
not
bee
induced
to
farder
his
corruptions
if
they
see
them
,
yet
wil
he
offer
presents
,
knowing
Salomons
wise
saying
,
that
Dona
coecant
oculos
ctiam
Prudentum
&
Iustorum
.
|
This
Treasurer
desireth
nothing
more
than
to
haue
a
Muster-master
and
Auditor
resident
in
the
Armie
:
to
assist
him
in
examination
of
frauds
,
and
to
do
both
the
Prince
and
Souldier
right
:
knowing
the
more
they
si●t
his
dooings
,
the
more
for
his
credite
and
reputation
.
|
Such
a
Pagadore
can
by
no
meanes
endure
an
Auditor
or
Mustermaster
in
the
Armie
,
but
onely
such
inferior
Commissaries
as
dare
not
offend
him
or
looke
into
his
dooings
.
And
in
this
he
will
make
all
his
Friends
and
spare
no
deuise
,
&c.
to
haue
these
two
Officers
lifted
out
,
that
then
hee
may
without
comptrolement
doo
what
hee
list
,
the
very
eyes
of
the
Armie
being
put
out
.
|
This
Treasurer
will
neuer
desire
the
Captaines
warrants
,
till
he
haue
truelie
paid
not
onelie
defalcations
,
but
also
all
due
vpon
the
said
warrants
:
contenting
himselfe
with
his
warrants
for
Imprests
in
the
meane
time
.
|
Such
a
Pagadore
if
hee
cannot
get
the
Captaines
owne
warrants
,
he
will
by
deuice
seeke
to
get
coppies
vnder
the
Lord
Generalls
or
the
Mustermasters
hands
which
are
good
constants
to
reccon
with
the
Auditor
.
And
if
the
Mustermaster
will
not
consent
vnto
it
he●
wil
become
his
secret
dangerous
Enemy
and
labor
all
meanes
to
remoue
him
.
|
This
Treasurer
desires
to
haue
the
trueth
of
all
matters
plainly
layde
open
to
the
Lords
of
the
Counsaile
,
and
is
not
iealous
of
any
man
that
shall
exhibite
writings
for
the
seruice
vnto
any
of
their
Lordships
.
|
Such
a
Pagadore
broyleth
like
Enceladus
in
Actna
when
he
heares
of
any
thing
deliuered
,
till
by
some
of
his
meanes
hee
can
get
the
sight
of
it
to
countermine
,
&c.
and
perswadeth
other
Officers
not
to
open
matters
plainely
vnto
their
Honors
,
saying
,
it
is
no
wisdome
to
make
them
too
cunning
.
|
This
Treasurer
contenteth
himself
with
a
competent
pay
.
,
because
his
Expences
be
moderate
,
and
needeth
not
giue
or
present
extraordinarilie
to
purchase
friends
,
and
will
not
exact
a
Pennie
vnduely
from
poore
or
ritch
.
|
Such
a
Pagadore
cannot
content
himselfe
with
most
honorable
or
excessiue
entertainement
,
but
exacteth
hundreths
and
thousands
,
and
not
only
from
the
rich
,
but
euen
from
the
most
poore
and
needie
of
the
Armie
,
besides
al
trafiks
,
chafferings
,
secret
beneuolences
,
and
other
Engins
to
angle
Money
,
quorum
non
est
Numerus
.
|
¶
A
Conference
of
two
Auditors
.
The
one
honest
and
Skilfull
.
The
other
either
corrupt
or
vnskilfull
.
The
Good
.
|
The
Bad.
|
THis
Auditor
will
demaund
competent
Enterteignment
for
him selfe
and
Clarkes
,
that
he
neede
not
straigne
his
conscience
.
|
THis
Auditor
forceth
not
much
of
Entertainment
,
knowing
meanes
inough
by
collusion
(
if
the
Treasurer
bee
bad
also
)
to
help
himselfe
.
|
This
Auditor
will
not
take
a
penny
of
the
Treasurer
,
though
he
would
giue
it
vtterly
without
condition
,
|
Such
an
Auditor
will
not
spare
to
take
without
condition
and
with
condition
too
,
so
hee
offer
like
a
C●atesman
|
This
Auditor
knowing
hee
that
will
no
ill
doe
,
must
doe
nothing
that
longs
therto
,
will
as
much
shun
familiaritie
with
the
Treasurer
,
as
all
dutifull
Muster-masters
ought
ouermuch
familiaritie
with
Captains
.
|
Such
an
Auditor
will
bee
as
great
with
a
corrupt
Treasurer
,
as
lewds
Muster
masters
or
Commissaries
will
be
with
lucrous
Captaines
.
|
This
Auditor
will
haue
as
diligent
an
eye
and
especially
ouer
the
Treasurer
and
his
deputies
,
as
a
good
Muster
Maister
will
haue
ouer
lucrous
Captaines
or
Clarks
of
Bands
.
|
Such
an
Officer
will
none
of
these
Melancholie
Conceipts
,
but
make
good
cheare
with
the
Treasurer
and
play
the
good
Fellowe
.
|
This
Auditor
keeps
perfect
records
of
all
billes
of
debt
,
for
Munition
,
Powder
,
Armes
,
and
other
defalcations
,
and
will
see
the
auncientst
billes
first
paide
before
latter
,
if
they
bee
of
one
nature
.
|
Such
an
Auditor
hath
no
regard
to
antiquitie
,
but
to
such
as
M
Treasurer
and
he
shall
agree
vpon
:
they
must
|
be
first
payde
,
and
the
rest
tarrie
a
second
markes
.
|
This
Auditor
being
resident
in
the
Armie
,
vil
haue
an
care
to
the
poore
Souldiers
greeues
and
see
their
debts
paide
before
any
billes
of
Captaines
Creditors
,
for
silkes
,
golde
lace
,
or
such
Vanities
.
|
Such
an
Auditor
wil
not
offend
the
Captaines
,
but
knowing
the
sweete
of
their
liberalities
will
see
such
bills
first
satisfied
as
best
like
them
,
saying
,
he
will
not
offend
braue
men
for
beggerli●
knaues
.
|
This
Auditor
(
if
a
Treasurer
offer
him
Bribes
,
willnot
onely
reiect
him
but
also
looke
the
more
narrowly
to
him
in
all
his
doings
afterward
,
knowing
thereby
(
onely
)
hee
is
a
corrupt
person
.
|
Such
an
Auditor
is
of
no
such
sour●
or
Melancholie
humor
,
knowing
the
Poet
not
without
cause
saieth
:
Placatur
donis
Iupiter
ipse
datis
.
|
This
Auditor
hath
a
vigilant
eye
to
the
Princes
profite
and
honor
,
to
sift
all
particuler
defalcations
whether
they
be
paid
indeede
,
or
onely
pretended
to
be
paide
by
collusion
bet
weene
the
Treasurer
&
Captains
,
or
their
Acomptant
Clarks
or
Officers
,
that
the
Princes
pay
be
not
slandered
and
her
Maiestie
dishonoured
by
such
Corruptions
.
|
Such
an
Officer
lookes
no
farther
but
to
warrant
and
quittance
,
not
caring
how
the
Princes
pay
bee
dishonored
and
slandered
,
so
long
as
hee
may
haue
apparance
of
matter
to
discharge
himselfe
,
knowing
the
more
the
Treasurer
by
such
sleights
robbes
the
Prince
and
Souldiers
,
the
greater
his
share
,
for
Manus
manum
fricat
.
|
This
Auditor
will
diligentlie
see
,
that
if
anie
defalcation
bee
made
for
anie
person
indebted
to
her
Maiestie
,
that
the
same
bee
staied
in
the
Treasurers
hand
to
her
Maiesties
vse
:
and
not
cunningly
conuaied
to
other
vses
by
Assignation
or
other
like
deuices
to
defraud
hi●
Maiestie
.
|
Such
an
Auditor
careth
not
how
these
defalcations
be
iugled
by
assignations
or
other
practizes
,
to
deceaue
the
Prince
and
enritch
pri●at
persons
,
so
as
the
Treasurer
and
he
may
haue
their
Fleeces
of
the
spoyle
:
for
these
Officers
must
accord
,
or
else
when
thee●●es
fall
out
,
true
men
come
by
their
goods
after
the
olde
Preuerbe
.
|
This
Auditor
will
set
down
orders
that
the
Treasurer
shall
keepe
in
his
accompt
:
viz
not
to
exhibite
onelie
the
Captaines
quittances
in
grosse
,
but
to
shew
particularlie
,
how
much
paid
to
the
Captaines
hands
in
monie
,
howe
much
in
victuall
,
howe
much
in
munition
:
and
so
particularlie
euerie
other
Defaulcation
:
wherefore
,
how
much
,
to
whom
,
&
when
paid
,
that
it
be
not
by
c●llusion
double
charged
.
|
Such
an
Auditor
will
none
of
these
plaine
courses
,
saying
they
are
Curiosities
that
will
make
him
odious
both
to
the
Treasurer
and
Captaines
:
And
that
if
he
should
deale
thus
plainely
,
Officers
cannot
gaine
:
Yea
they
shall
make
so
many
Enemies
,
as
the
Prince
(
whom
they
best
deserue
of
)
shall
be
made
to
dislike
them
.
In
briefs
that
this
honestie
for
want
of
Friends
shall
starue
,
or
die
in
the
Hospitall
.
|
This
Auditor
reposing
him selfe
on
God
only
&
his
good
conscience
,
laboreth
not
to
make
Friendes
,
but
thinketh
his
honest
courses
shall
protect
him
against
his
lewd
Enemies
,
&
make
him
acceptable
to
his
Prince
.
|
Such
an
Auditor
perhapps
by
the
calamitie
of
other
honest
Officers
(
learning
that
Parum
valet
probitas
quam
nulla
potentia
fulcit
)
will
not
offend
rich
or
great
persons
,
but
ioyne
with
them
in
plowing
the
golden
soile
,
and
see
no
more
than
that
which
hee
knows
shall
not
offend
them
.
|
This
Auditor
(
after
hee
perceiues
that
a
Captain
hath
receiued
so
much
on
his
warrant
,
that
there
will
not
remaine
more
than
may
pay
his
souldiers
,
and
due
debts
of
his
Band
,
for
Armes
,
Pouder
,
apparrell
,
and
such
necessaries
as
ought
to
be
first
paide
)
giues
Caueat
to
the
Treasurer
thereof
,
that
he
deliuer
not
the
Captaine
that
money
which
should
paye
the
Souldier
and
these
honest
Creditors
.
|
Such
an
Auditor
knowing
that
these
honest
Creditors
cannot
giue
the
Treasurer
10.
pro
100.
to
haue
their
Money
,
whereas
other
Creditors
of
silkes
,
Gold
lace
or
such
like
vanities
,
or
others
(
that
by
collusion
haue
bills
made
of
purpose
to
drawe
out
Money
)
may
giue
and
will
giue
the
Treasurer
30.
40.
or
50.
pro
100.
he
will
not
be
curious
to
search
,
which
are
true
and
honest
debts
,
and
which
contrarie
:
but
meeting
with
a
bountifull
Treasurer
will
allow
such
as
he
likes
,
and
he
hath
reason
to
like
those
best
that
offer
most
bountifullie
.
|
This
Auditor
will
not
set
downe
in
his
Accompt
a
penny
paide
either
of
money
to
the
Captaines
or
defalcations
to
the
Creditors
then
he
seeeth
in
trueth
,
is
indeede
issued
of
her
Maiesties
Treasure
,
albeit
the
Treasurer
perhaps
shew
his
warrant
&
acquitance
to
prooue
he
hath
issued
all
,
when
he
hath
indeede
Fortie
thowsand
poundes
in
his
handes
,
&
thereby
causeth
the
Treasurer
to
pay
truely
,
and
that
Vitualers
,
Armorers
,
and
honest
Creditors
shall
not
exclaime
and
slaunder
the
Princes
honorable
pay
when
the
Treasurer
hath
it
in
his
owne
handes
to
make
his
profite
by
it
.
|
But
such
an
Auditor
seeing
by
his
honest
plaine
course
neither
Treasurer
nor
Captaines
can
abuse
eyther
Prince
or
Souldiers
,
that
consequently
they
neither
can
nor
will
deale
bountifullie
with
him
,
he
will
none
of
this
,
but
rather
without
more
curiosity
Secundum
vsum
Sarum
make
his
reckonings
with
Warranto
and
Acquittancia
and
pro
forma
:
to
excuse
himselfe
,
if
his
accompt
should
bee
●i●ted
:
will
not
directly
say
it
is
all
issued
,
but
issuing
and
issued
,
or
some
parcell
not
issued
:
when
perhaps
that
parcell
wel
examined
,
may
prooue
many
ten
thousand
poundes
.
|
Finally
this
Auditor
being
resident
in
the
Armie
will
hold
so
plaine
and
precise
a
course
as
hee
will
be
able
at
all
times
to
say
how
much
treasure
is
Issued
indeed
,
and
what
remaines
in
the
Treasurers
hands
:
which
Creditors
,
&c.
are
paied
indeede
,
&
which
are
not
paide
:
So
that
no
Iugling
can
be
vsed
to
defeate
honest
men
of
their
due
,
but
he
will
comptroll
it
,
&
by
conference
with
the
Muster
Maister
also
will
see
howe
the
Souldiers
are
satisfied
.
|
But
such
an
Auditor
knowing
such
an
Officer
is
intollerable
to
a
corrupt
Pagadore
,
&c.
and
that
he
hauing
his
Princes
purse
to
make
frends
:
is
likely
to
disgrace
or
lift
out
any
honest
Officers
that
shall
not
cons●rt
with
him
.
This
Auditor
sayeth
,
I
will
leaue
that
thanklesse
honest
course
,
and
play
the
good
Fellow
,
and
fill
my
purse
with
Crownes
,
when
honest
Officers
may
goe
to
the
Hospitall
for
any
Comfort
or
Countenance
they
shall
receaue
.
|
CONTRARIA
IVXTA
SE
POSIT
A
MAGIS
ELVCESCVNT
.
BY
WISDOM
PEACE
BY
PEACE
PLENTY
printer's or publisher's device
TO
Abuses
that
may
be
practized
to
the
great
dishonour
of
the
Prince
,
the
defrauding
of
Souldiers
and
honest
Creditours
:
and
vtter
ruine
and
confusion
of
an
Armie
,
where
they
shall
be
continued
,
and
not
preuented
.
IT
is
a
thing
too
wel
knowen
,
that
if
al
Captaines
bills
shuld
be
payd
and
defalked
vpon
the
warrants
for
their
bands
,
that
both
Souldiers
many
times
should
vtterly
lose
a
great
part
of
their
wages
dewe
,
&
the
honest
Creditors
also
their
debts
,
by
reason
of
such
practises
as
ensue
.
Inprimis
,
if
any
Captaines
take
vp
Silkes
,
Gold
lace
,
Iewels
,
or
other
like
matters
for
their
owne
vse
amounting
to
treble
their
owne
entertainement
:
This
being
defalked
on
the
warrant
for
the
band
,
must
needs
vniustly
take
from
the
poore
Souldier
part
of
his
pay
.
If
a
Captaine
borrowe
Money
of
the
Treasurer
or
any
other
for
his
owne
priuat
expences
,
or
giue
his
bill
to
the
Treasurer
to
pay
his
losses
in
play
,
or
charges
in
wastfull
houses
,
the
Bills
must
alwaies
be
made
in
one
forme
viz.
Receaued
of
Master
Treasurer
so
much
for
the
vse
of
the
Companie
,
&c.
albeit
the
poore
Companie
may
very
well
pleade
not
guiltie
of
any
part
therof
.
The
same
being
defaulked
by
the
Treasurer
on
the
warrant
for
the
band
,
the
poore
Souldier
is
defeated
,
how
trewly
soeuer
her
Maiestie
paye
.
Or
when
such
multitude
of
bills
signed
with
any
Captaines
hand
shall
be
brought
vnto
the
Treasurer
,
as
the
whole
warrant
,
both
Captaines
pay
,
Officers
pay
,
&
Souldiers
pay
is
not
able
to
discharge
,
hee
must
needes
choose
some
,
and
reiect
others
.
In
which
choyse
if
the
Treasurer
be
a
man
that
regardes
his
owne
benefit
and
the
choyce
left
in
him
,
he
must
needes
reiect
the
honest
Creditors
,
who
vpon
reasonable
prizes
and
small
gaine
hauing
serued
the
Companie
,
can
offer
little
to
haue
their
dew
,
and
choose
such
as
by
their
excessiue
gaynes
vndewly
made
,
may
offer
most
,
and
so
the
lewde
onelie
gaine
,
and
the
honest
Creditors
vtterlie
defeated
.
Againe
if
any
Captaine
haue
once
taken
vp
and
giuen
his
bills
for
more
than
his
own
wages
,
and
the
warrant
of
his
whole
Companie
is
able
to
paye
,
then
to
get
notwithstanding
some
more
Money
to
bee
defalked
on
the
same
warrant
,
he
may
with
gaine
be
content
to
giue
60
pro
100.
or
giue
his
bill
of
debt
for
100.
to
the
Treasurer
,
to
be
defaulked
on
his
warrant
to
receaue
40
,
or
lesse
.
And
this
bill
must
be
made
as
formably
as
any
other
,
viz.
for
Armes
or
apparrell
for
the
vse
of
the
Companie
,
and
perhappes
dated
before
any
of
the
rest
.
And
such
a
one
being
able
with
gaine
to
giue
30.
or
40.
in
the
100.
to
be
paid
his
bill
,
may
bee
as
likely
to
speede
as
any
of
the
honest
Creditors
,
who
perhappes
are
not
able
to
giue
10.
pro
100
without
their
losse
,
if
the
Treasurer
bee
a
man
that
will
bee
moued
with
gaine
and
haue
no
Commissioners
to
guide
him
.
But
seeing
the
fraudes
and
practizes
are
infinite
,
whereby
the
honest
Creditors
and
poore
Souldiers
may
be
defeated
vtterlie
of
their
due
:
&
her
Maiesties
pay
slaundred
&
exclaimed
on
,
(
how
iustlie
soeuer
her
Highnes
pa●e
)
if
great
discretion
and
Iustice
bee
not
vsed
in
the
examination
and
allowance
of
suters
bills
,
with
due
triall
,
which
were
in
deede
to
the
vse
of
the
Companie
,
&
which
fraudulent
,
or
to
the
Captaines
or
Treasurers
pri●ate
gaine
.
They
ought
to
be
persons
of
great
sincerity
and
vprightnesse
,
that
should
make
choyce
which
bills
should
be
first
allowed
:
and
which
reiected
as
the
Captaines
owne
debt
,
and
not
defalcable
on
the
Companie
.
For
,
this
cause
I
suppose
in
Ireland
it
hath
beene
accustomed
,
that
the
Auditor
onely
(
who
hath
no
handling
of
the
Treasure
)
was
the
setter
downe
of
all
defalcations
,
and
the
Treasurer
onely
to
pay
according
to
his
Debentur
.
For
surelie
when
in
one
pay
,
a
man
(
in
fauoring
of
vniust
bills
)
may
gaine
ten
thowsand
pounds
or
more
,
&
by
dealing
iustlie
can
hardly
gaine
the
twentieth
part
,
it
is
a
great
temptation
to
misdrawe
an
indifferent
honest
mind
:
especiallie
when
the
Raynes
shall
be
left
wholie
in
his
owne
hands
.
Or
if
the
Treasurer
were
neuer
so
honest
a
man
,
yet
if
his
Officers
vnder
him
be
men
that
wil
be
temp●ed
;
he
may
easilie
be
seduced
,
euen
to
the
Ruyne
of
an
Armie
.
The
only
meane
therefore
to
redresse
so
great
Inconueniences
,
&
to
rid
both
hit
Maiestie
of
exclamations
,
hir
Officers
of
slaunders
;
and
do
both
Captaines
and
soldiers
right
,
is
to
appoynt
some
such
choyce
honest
Commissioners
,
as
(
hauing
no
fingring
of
the
Treasure
)
may
sit
in
some
publique
place
,
where
openlie
the
Captaines
and
Creditors
maie
be
heard
;
and
also
the
complaints
of
the
souldiers
.
And
these
Commissioners
after
they
haue
heard
,
&
also
the
complaint
of
the
Souldiers
:
And
these
Commissioners
after
they
haue
heard
what
is
alleaged
on
all
parts
,
to
set
downe
a
publique
order
:
which
Bills
shal
be
defaulked
on
the
warrant
for
the
Companie
,
and
which
set
on
the
Captaines
owne
head
as
debts
of
his
owne
.
But
there
may
be
also
another
greater
mischiefe
than
al
this
,
practized
in
the
militarie
accomptes
of
this
time
:
whereby
,
albeit
the
best
Auditors
in
England
haue
the
examination
of
a
Treasurers
accompt
:
her
Maiestie
may
be
found
still
in
the
Treasurers
debt
,
albeit
he
haue
forty
thowsand
pounds
of
her
Maiesties
in
his
hands
;
&
both
Souldiers
and
Creditors
defrauded
,
and
her
Maiesties
pay
slaundered
by
meanes
of
this
course
ensuing
.
If
the
Treasurer
(
when
hee
accompteth
with
anie
Captaine
vpon
his
warrant
)
first
sheweth
him
a
note
of
all
defaulcations
,
viz.
Bills
of
imprest
,
Victuallers
bills
,
Armorers
bills
,
defaulcations
certified
by
the
States
,
&
other
his
Creditors
or
Souldiers
bills
:
his
owne
new
found
hundred
peny
,
&c.
All
this
being
defaulked
,
hee
setteth
down
the
ouerplus
as
a
debt
due
to
the
Captaine
.
For
this
cleare
debt
,
the
Treasurer
giueth
to
the
Captaine
an
Attestation
,
and
for
all
the
rest
of
the
warrant
taketh
an
Acquittance
from
the
Captaine
togeather
with
his
warrant
.
If
vpon
these
conditions
(
as
perhaps
on
these
and
none
other
the
Captaines
must
take
their
accompts
)
see
then
what
is
likelie
to
ensue
.
In
this
course
,
lightlie
if
the
warrant
bee
for
2
thowsand
pounds
,
the
defalcations
shall
bee
1700.
or
more
,
and
the
cleare
debt
to
the
Captaine
300.
or
lesse
.
Nowe
when
the
Treasurer
shall
bee
called
to
his
accompt
,
as
is
commonlie
vsed
before
an
Auditor
of
the
presse
in
England
:
he
produceth
his
warrant
for
2000
pounds
,
and
this
Quittance
signed
by
the
Captaine
for
1700.
pounds
In
this
case
,
the
precisest
absent
Auditor
can
allowe
the
Treasurer
no
lesse
then
the
1700.
pounds
vpon
his
Accompts
,
whereas
commonly
the
greater
part
of
all
these
defalcations
are
vnpaid
.
And
in
this
manner
in
an
Accompt
of
an
hundred
thousand
poundes
,
the
Treasurer
may
haue
thirtie
or
sortie
thousand
pounds
in
his
owne
hands
,
and
yet
the
Auditor
by
Warrant
and
Quittance
shall
finde
all
payd
,
and
perhappes
some
surplusage
from
the
Queene
to
the
Treasurer
:
So
that
this
kinde
of
Accompt
before
a
strange
Auditor
by
Warrant
and
Quittance
is
friuolous
,
and
no
possibilitie
for
the
best
Auditor
in
the
World
in
that
sort
to
discouer
Fraudes
,
or
determine
any
certaintie
,
but
both
her
Maiestie
,
the
Souldierie
,
the
Creditors
,
&
all
may
be
extremely
abused
,
and
yet
the
Treasurer
and
his
Associats
goe
clere
away
with
an
infinit
gaine
.
And
this
kinde
of
Accompt
before
an
absent
Auditor
per
Warrantum
&
Acquittanciam
without
farther
examination
is
in
deede
as
ridiculous
,
and
as
impossible
thereby
to
discouer
the
abuses
of
a
Pagadores
Accompt
,
&
the
wrongs
done
to
Captaines
,
Souldiers
,
honest
Creditors
and
chiefelie
to
the
Prince
,
as
particular
Musters
(
taken
in
seuerall
Garrisons
on
seuerall
daies
)
is
able
to
discouer
the
Fraudes
and
deceipts
vsually
practized
by
Clarkes
of
Bandes
or
such
Captaines
as
valew
,
lucour
aboue
Honour
,
or
Honesty
,
&
therefore
this
course
ensuing
for
examination
of
Militarie
Treasurers
Accompts
fit
to
be
established
.
The
onely
or
best
salue
to
recure
such
vlcerous
soares
.
The
onely
meane
therefore
to
vnrip
and
discouer
fraudes
in
such
accomptes
of
militarie
Pagadores
,
and
to
doo
both
Captaines
,
Souldiers
and
Creditors
right
,
and
to
maintaine
the
honer
of
her
Maiesties
pay
,
and
to
prouide
that
her
Maiesties
Treasure
be
not
misconueied
and
vndewly
wasted
,
is
FIrst
not
to
suffer
such
Militarie
Money
Officers
to
run
on
1.
2.
or
3.
yeares
without
Accompt
,
but
quarterly
or
euery
halfe
yeare
at
the
farthest
to
deliuer
vp
to
the
Auditor
at
Warres
his
Accompts
perfited
,
as
he
will
stand
to
it
vpon
his
credit
or
discredit
,
to
receaue
triall
,
at
his
perrill
.
Secondly
,
that
for
all
such
summes
of
Money
as
hee
auerres
payd
,
hee
deliuer
in
together
with
the
Captaines
acquittance
,
a
bill
vnder
his
hand
,
particularly
declaring
how
much
was
paide
him
in
readie
Money
,
and
how
much
in
defalcations
for
Armorers
,
Victuallers
,
or
other
Creditors
bills
,
expressing
particularly
,
to
whom
,
when
,
and
for
what
the
same
was
paid
,
that
it
be
not
after
cunningly
double
charged
on
her
Maiestie
.
Thirdly
,
that
these
Accompts
of
Treasurers
may
not
ly
so
closed
vp
vnder
locks
,
but
that
any
man
(
paying
the
Auditors
Clarkes
for
their
paines
)
may
take
coppies
of
any
part
:
that
if
anie
Souldier
or
Creditor
finde
himselfe
grieued
,
he
may
haue
redresse
by
the
Auditor
,
or
a
ground
to
complaine
of
his
wrong
.
Lastly
,
that
if
any
Accompt
haue
run
on
,
many
quarters
or
yeares
without
such
orderly
setting
downe
of
all
Defalcations
&
publique
notice
vt
supra
:
that
it
be
the
more
diligentlie
sifted
by
Officers
of
experience
and
skill
,
and
that
(
after
it
is
particularly
set
downe
as
the
Treasurer
will
stand
to
it
)
it
may
bee
open
to
all
men
to
view
as
aforesaid
:
and
so
to
remaine
as
long
time
as
the
Accompt
hath
been
differred
,
before
the
Treasurer
at
Warres
haue
his
allowance
or
Quietus
est
.
By
this
means
it
wil
come
to
passe
that
as
he●
Maiesties
pay
hath
been
euer
the
most
honorable
of
any
King
or
State
in
Christendome
,
and
most
honorable
courses
alreadie
taken
,
by
her
Maiestie
and
her
honorable
Councell
for
the
redresse
of
manie
abuses
,
whereby
the
poore
Souldiers
had
receaued
hard
measure
:
So
by
such
dew
and
orderly
Examination
of
Accompts
,
all
persons
agreeued
shall
receaue
due
satisfaction
,
or
knowe
where
,
and
of
whom
to
demannd
their
dueties
,
and
neither
exclaime
on
Officers
without
iust
cause
,
nor
yet
her
Maiesties
most
honorable
pay
slaundred
and
defamed
,
for
that
which
perhappes
may
bee
vndewly
detaigned
by
such
inferiour
persons
.
And
these
Militarie
Officers
knowing
that
by
these
Tutchstones
their
Actions
shall
plainelie
appeare
whether
they
be
Golde
or
Brasse
,
will
happelie
amend
all
that
is
amisse
,
and
doo
that
hereafter
shal
most
agree
with
their
owne
reputations
,
and
the
seruice
of
GOD
,
their
Prince
and
Countrey
.
To
which
ende
I
haue
published
these
briefe
Collections
.
¶
A
Briefe
conference
of
two
Commaunders
of
different
properties
and
Conditions
.
The
one
honorablie
trayned
in
Royall
Warres
,
gouerned
by
right
Martiall
Discipline
.
The
other
bred
vp
in
disorderly
ciuil
dissentions
among
Freebooters
,
guided
by
lawlesse
indiscretion
.
The
Good
.
|
The
Bad.
|
THIS
Commaunder
establisheth
martiall
lawes
full
of
Equitie
,
and
causeth
them
to
be
inuiolablic
obserued
.
|
THis
Comma●der
skoffeth
at
true
Martiall
Discipline
and
would
haue
all
guided
by
his
owne
discretion
,
or
rather
lawlesse
in
discretion
.
|
This
Commaunder
selecteth
a
Councell
militarie
,
with
whome
to
conferre
before
he
resolue
of
anie
important
enterprize
.
|
Such
a
Commander
partely
to
couer
his
owne
ignorance
,
and
partly
for
vaine
glory
to
haue
all
the
praise
himselse
shunneth
conference
,
and
will
giude
or
rather
misguide
al
by
his
own
vaine
phantasie
.
|
This
Commaunder
will
not
take
vpon
him
anie
enterprize
,
but
he
wil
bee
assured
to
bee
prouided
of
all
thinges
necessarie
to
performe
it
Honorablie
.
|
Such
a
Commander
will
vndertake
any
thing
how
absurd
soeuer
,
so
hee
may
finger
the
Treasure
,
let
the
successe
be
what
it
will
.
|
This
Commaunder
will
also
see
such
conuenient
allowance
of
pay
,
as
his
souldiers
may
liue
without
spoyle
of
their
freindes
,
or
committing
outradge
.
|
Such
a
Commander
eareth
not
what
outrage
,
they
commit
,
or
how
they
crush
their
Friends
,
so
as
they
craue
no
pay
of
him
,
but
can
liue
by
shifting
otherwise
,
and
such
he
calleth
braue
men
,
as
by
right
Martiall
law
should
be
disarmed
vnder
a
gallowes
.
|
This
Commaunder
imployeth
his
Princes
Treasure
in
the
true
payment
of
his
Capaines
and
Souldiers
,
and
su●h
prouisions
onelie
as
may
aduan●e
the
pulique
seruice
.
|
Such
a
Commander
wasteth
it
either
in
his
own
pomp
&
vaineglorp
,
or
othe
silthie
and
base
pleasures
,
neither
seeking
to
pay
his
Captaines
nor
carin
gwhether
they
pay
their
Souldiers
.
|
This
Commaunder
will
see
at
the
first
generall
muster
all
his
Captaines
and
Officers
well
chosen
:
&
his
souldiers
well
armed
,
and
well
appoynted
.
|
Such
a
Commander
after
he
hath
fingered
the
Treasure
neither
careth
whether
his
Souldiers
be
armed
or
naked
,
and
for
Captaines
and
Officers
taketh
such
as
will
serue
for
least
imprest
.
|
This
Commaunder
establisheth
such
order
in
his
Musters
and
Discipline
in
his
Armie
,
as
euery
Captaine
may
be
trulie
paid
and
cheequed
according
to
their
strength
and
weakenesle
of
his
Band
:
and
being
truelie
paid
himselfe
,
shall
accordingly
truelic
pay
his
Soudliers
.
|
Such
a
Cōmannder
cannot
endure
such
orders
in
Musters
as
are
agreeable
to
true
Martiall
Discipline
,
but
will
haue
all
ordered
by
his
own
indiscretion
:
and
if
his
Captaines
will
be
contributorie
,
they
shall
be
paid
Poule
Ioule
,
without
difference
or
check
,
and
for
their
Souldiers
,
let
them
vse
them
as
they
list
.
|
This
Commaunder
as
he
will
see
his
Captaines
haue
their
due
,
so
will
he
heare
the
Souldiers
greeues
:
being
offered
in
supplication
duetilullie
,
&
without
assembling
in
armes
.
|
Such
a
Commander
(
if
a
few
poore
Souldiers
by
supplication
without
Armes
complaine
they
cannot
receaue
their
pay
,
)
will
haue
it
a
Mutenie
and
hang
some
of
them
in
terrorem
,
for
the
Captaines
cannot
contribute
largely
to
him
,
vnlesse
they
may
crush
the
poore
Souldier
Impune
.
|
This
Commaunder
will
by
conference
examine
the
abilitie
of
his
Captaines
,
and
Officers
:
to
remooue
such
as
he
findes
insufficient
&
place
sufficient
in
their
roome
.
|
Such
a
Commaunder
reiects
none
but
such
as
will
not
be
contributory
,
or
importunes
him
for
their
Souldiers
pay
and
cannot
liue
by
crushing
of
their
Friends
and
poore
Souldiers
as
his
other
braue
men
will
.
|
This
Commaunder
will
see
his
Captaines
and
Officers
of
euerie
particular
Band
,
traine
their
Souldiers
,
and
exercise
them
in
the
vse
of
euery
kind
of
weapon
.
|
Such
a
Commander
being
both
ignorant
himselfe
and
hauing
manie
like
Captaines
,
will
none
of
this
:
alleadging
it
is
a
needles
tyring
of
the
poore
Souldiers
,
and
scoffe
at
them
that
do●
it
.
|
This
Commaunder
being
in
the
field
,
will
also
before
hee
see
the
Enemies
:
cause
his
Souldiers
to
bee
imbettailed
in
seuerall
sortes
:
and
teach
them
howe
to
answere
euerie
charge
of
horse
or
other
attempt
of
their
Enemies
.
And
this
will
he
often
doe
,
as
well
to
traine
hts
Souldiers
:
as
to
knowe
the
sufficiencie
of
his
superior
Officers
.
|
Such
a
Commander
wanting
iudgement
to
doo
these
things
himselfe
,
doth
not
onely
seldome
or
neuer
vse
any
of
these
right
Martiall
exercises
,
but
to
couer
the
disabilitie
of
himselfe
and
his
followers
will
ieast
and
scoffe
at
them
that
doo
it
,
and
call
them
Saint
Georges
Knights
,
or
such
like
.
|
This
Commaunder
knoweth
hee
shoulde
bee
rather
a
Butcher
then
a
Commaunder
:
if
hee
should
bring
his
Souldiers
to
fight
before
they
are
thus
trained
and
exercised
.
|
Such
a
Commander
will
not
be
ashamed
to
maintaine
this
butcherlie
opinion
,
that
men
are
best
trained
in
blood
,
and
that
other
Traynings
are
ridiculous
.
|
This
Commaunder
if
his
charge
be
of
Footemen
,
will
bee
ashamed
to
bee
mounted
at
anie
time
on
a
horse
of
force
,
or
anie
other
than
some
litle
nagge
onelie
for
his
case
.
|
Such
a
Commander
will
be
mounted
on
such
a
horse
,
as
he
may
out
run
the
whole
Field
,
and
scape
when
hee
list
.
|
This
commaunder
will
neuer
see
his
Fantry
in
perrill
,
but
if
he
happen
to
be
mounted
,
he
wi●l
disinount
:
&
if
hee
haue
neuer
so
principall
horses
offered
him
to
saue
himselfe
,
will
rather
choose
to
die
or
take
their
Fortune
,
than
by
horse
or
flight
to
saue
himselfe
:
as
the
famous
Romaine
Generales
in
old
time
,
and
Mounsier
La
Noüe
in
our
age
hath
done
.
|
Such
a
Commander
so
soone
as
he
seeth
his
Fantery
pressed
by
the
Enemie
,
if
hee
bee
not
alreadie
mounted
on
a
choyce
horse
,
hath
one
alwaies
readie
to
run
away
with
such
other
folowers
like
himselfe
when
his
valiant
men
are
cut
in
pieces
,
and
then
must
these
Runawaies
by
letters
or
Pamphlets
magnifie
him
,
and
by
deuice
disgrace
these
va●ant
men
that
resolutely
dyed
in
the
place
.
|
This
Commaunder
when
he
deuiseth
anie
Enterprize
vpon
the
Enemie
,
doth
it
onelie
vpon
matters
of
importance
likelie
to
be
effected
:
and
for
the
benefite
publique
and
reliefe
of
his
Souldiers
.
|
Such
a
Commander
ca●th
not
how
vnseazible
the
enterprize
bee
,
so
by
pretence
thereof
he
may
get
Money
into
his
hands
,
regarding
onely
his
own●
profit
,
neither
caring
for
the
publiqu●
nor
reliefe
of
the
Souldiers
.
|
This
Commaunder
if
vpon
anie
such
enter●rize
hee
receaue
Treasure
,
he
imployeth
it
presentlie
on
the
well
arming
and
furnishing
of
his
Souldiers
and
supplying
of
their
needefull
wants
,
that
they
may
assayle
their
Enemies
couragiouslie
,
and
attayne
Victoris
.
|
Such
a
Commander
when
he
hath
receaued
their
pay
,
wi●l
not
pay
them
a
penie
till
the
seruice
be
past
,
no
not
so
much
as
to
supply
them
with
armes
and
needefull
furniture
,
knowing
,
the
more
of
them
are
killed
the
more
his
gaine
,
who
hauing
their
Money
in
his
hand
,
meanes
,
according
to
such
corrupt
Freebooters
lawes
,
To
bee
himselfe
their
Heire
or
Exequutor
.
|
This
Commaunder
seeketh
by
all
meanes
to
spare
his
Princes
purse
and
publique
Treasure
:
and
not
to
haue
it
wasted
vnduelie
,
but
imployed
in
matt●rs
of
importance
:
and
for
reliefe
of
the
Souldiers
that
truely
serue
,
and
deserue
.
|
Such
a
Commander
careth
not
how
his
Princes
purse
be
picked
,
so
hee
may
haue
his
share
of
the
spoyle
:
and
so
that
be
large
inough
he
careth
neither
for
Captaine
nor
Souldier
.
|
This
Commander
winneth
the
loue
of
his
Captaines
and
Souldiers
by
dooing
Iustice
to
both
,
by
procuring
their
due
to
both
,
and
seeing
the
one
doo
right
to
the
other
.
|
Such
a
Commander
currieth
Fauour
with
the
Captaines
onely
of
his
owne
humor
,
by
suffering
them
to
crush
and
oppresse
the
Souldiers
:
and
on
his
Souldiers
hee
taketh
no
more
compassion
then
on
Doggs
:
his
gaine
growing
chie●elie
by
their
staruing
or
killing
.
|
This
Commander
vsing
Iustice
and
right
Martiall
Discipline
,
God
commonly
prospereth
and
blesseth
his
Enterprizes
.
|
Such
a
Commander
vsing
the
contrarie
,
God
seldome
or
neuer
blesseth
him
with
any
good
successe
:
but
with
shame
and
confusion
,
if
by
right
Martiall
lawe
he
might
rece●ue
his
due
.
|
This
Commaunder
(
to
gaine
a
world
of
Treasure
to
himself
)
would
not
consent
to
the
defrauding
of
his
valient
Souldiers
of
their
due
:
or
to
the
crushing
or
oppressing
of
freinds
or
duetifull
Subiects
.
|
Such
a
Commander
(
to
currie
Fauour
with
the
great
ones
,
and
gaine
Treasure
to
maintaine
his
owne
vitious
prodegalitie
)
careth
not
how
the
p●ore
Souldiers
are
abused
,
or
the
Friends
,
allies
,
and
dutifull
Subiects
oppressed
.
|
This
Commaunder
(
by
his
iustice
and
good
Discipline
)
winneth
the
hearts
euen
of
Enemies
,
and
encreaseth
his
Princes
Dominions
and
Territories
.
|
Such
a
Commander
by
his
wicked
life
and
bad
Discipline
alienateth
the
hearts
euen
of
Friends
and
allies
,
and
looseth
by
peecemeale
great
Proui●ces
where
he
maintatneth
his
●itious
Prodegalitie
vpon
their
robbery
and
spoyle
.
|
|
|
This
Commaunder
seeketh
no
vnhonest
or
indirect
meanes
by
false
surmises
or
lewd
practizes
to
disgrace
other
men
of
value
to
aduaunce
himselfe
:
but
reposing
himselfe
on
true
vertue
,
enuieth
not
the
good
seruice
of
other
.
|
Such
a
Commander
(
being
v●ide
of
all
true
vertue
)
enuieth
the
same
extreamelie
in
others
,
and
engineth
by
all
false
and
vnhonest
practizes
(
by
disgrace
of
his
betters
)
to
purchase
a
vaine
fame
among
the
ignorant
that
are
blind
,
and
not
able
to
iudge
aright
of
Cullors
.
|
This
Commander
being
sufficiently
honored
by
his
owne
true
vertue
and
valew
,
contenteth
himselfe
therewith
,
and
laboreth
not
by
any
indirect
meanes
to
haue
vntrue
fames
bruted
of
him
.
|
This
other
committing
manie
shamefull
and
reprochfull
errors
(
des●ruing
in
right
Martiall
Discipline
ignominious
disarming
,
by
running
away
when
his
Souldiers
are
butchered
,
or
staruing
them
for
want
of
their
pay
by
him
receiued
,
&c
)
is
neuerthelesse
so
farre
past
shame
by
bad
education
in
corrupt
Discipline
,
that
he
will
triumph
of
these
shames
:
&
cause
Pamphlets
to
hee
published
of
his
praise
,
&
the
blind
multitude
(
manie
times
missed
by
these
toyes
)
extoll
the
Cuckowe
for
a
Faulcon
,
and
make
an
Eagle
of
the
Dawe
.
|
Where
these
kinde
of
Commanders
are
chosen
and
honored
,
God
will
blesse
,
encrease
and
amplifie
the
State
and
confound
their
Enemies
,
and
the
glorie
of
that
state
shall
not
bee
blemished
but
protected
by
the
omnipotent
hand
of
the
Lord
of
Hostes.
|
Where
these
kind
of
Commaunders
are
suffered
and
not
corrected
or
suppressed
,
the
iust
Iudgements
of
God
are
to
bee
feared
:
who
neuer
permitteth
such
Iniquity
to
florish
at
any
time
but
for
their
greater
Ruyne
.
|
This
briefe
Conference
of
Good
and
Bad
Officers
and
Commanders
may
serue
as
a
Glasse
or
Toutchstone
for
men
to
beholde
and
trie
one
sort
from
another
,
and
by
the
Fruits
to
Iudge
aright
of
the
Trees
,
especiallie
for
chief
Magistrates
to
discerne
by
sound
reason
aright
,
and
not
to
be
abused
by
vaine
Fame
and
vncertaine
Opinion
in
a
matter
of
so
great
Consequence
:
And
if
anie
guiltie
Conscience
wintch
at
this
,
it
is
not
I
but
themselues
bewray
their
Galled
Backes
.
TO
Conclude
,
least
my
meaning
should
maliciously
bee
misconstrued
,
I
must
protest
,
that
albeit
I
haue
in
manie
parts
of
this
treatize
seuerely
inueighed
against
manie
abuses
and
Corruptions
bred
&
fostered
in
ciuill
dissentions
,
yet
is
it
farre
from
my
meaning
to
inueigh
generally
against
all
such
Captaines
,
Commanders
,
or
Generalls
as
haue
borne
charge
or
sway
in
these
Intestine
Warres
,
for
I
haue
my selfe
knowne
many
Captaines
and
great
Commanders
in
those
Warres
that
highlie
esteemed
of
right
Martiall
Discipline
,
&
by
experience
feelinglye
,
seeing
the
Inconueniences
,
that
ensue
by
such
Corruptions
,
haue
the
more
detested
and
abhorred
them
.
As
likewise
that
famous
Prince
of
Orenge
(
I
am
able
to
say
of
mine
owne
knowledge
,
and
from
his
owne
mouth
)
mutch
disliked
many
of
those
horrible
disorders
,
which
neuerthelesse
necessitie
for
want
of
meanes
to
pay
,
inforced
him
to
tollerate
in
some
of
his
Mercenarie
Commanders
.
The
like
appeareth
by
the
Discipline
before
published
by
that
worthie
Prince
of
Coundy
,
and
right
Militare
Admirall
Shattilion
,
who
notwithstanding
were
enforced
to
suffer
many
of
these
things
themselues
condemned
.
But
my
meaning
indeed
is
with
Reproach
to
noate
all
such
men
of
Warre
as
contemning
all
ancient
and
true
Martiall
Discipline
,
either
ignorantly
thinke
all
they
see
done
in
these
Warres
fit
to
be
imitated
,
or
Rauenously
for
their
owne
gaine
and
particular
profit
will
not
onely
themselues
be
the
Exequutioners
of
so
foule
Abuses
,
but
shamelesly
maintaigne
such
bad
new
Customes
to
bee
good
and
Laudible
:
and
knowing
their
skill
vtterlie
vnable
with
any
Eloquence
or
Cunning
to
defend
so
impious
and
bad
a
cause
,
wil
either
by
Mutinous
factions
violentlie
endeuour
to
oppresse
,
or
by
false
flaunders
Malitiouslie
seeke
to
disgrace
such
persons
as
they
know
able
to
discerne
and
willing
to
make
their
Prince
and
Countrey
trewlie
vnderstand
,
see
,
and
abhorre
such
horrible
Abuses
.
Neither
doo
I
hate
the
person
of
a●ie
one
or
other
Militare
man
aliue
for
any
respect
whatsoeuer
,
but
onlie
such
Extortions
and
Corruptions
in
some
of
them
,
as
I
should
likewise
detest
(
if
I
should
finde
the
same
)
in
mine
owne
Brother
.
And
therefore
no
particular
or
priuate
respect
,
but
onely
the
great
Inconuenience
I
doubt
may
ensue
,
and
the
faithfull
zeale
,
loue
,
and
dewtie
I
beare
to
my
most
gracious
Soueraigne
and
Countrey
,
hath
moued
and
induced
mee
(
aswell
while
I
bare
Office
of
Comptrolement
in
Militare
causes
as
now
also
,
being
happelie
disburdened
of
that
thankelesse
place
)
so
plainelie
to
declare
a
truth
,
not
fearing
to
incurre
or
irritate
the
mallice
of
so
viperous
and
pestilent
slaunderous
Enemies
,
as
both
myselfe
haue
,
and
all
other
honest
Officers
shall
finde
such
to
bee
,
as
haue
vowed
their
seruice
to
Madam
Picorea
so
liuelie
with
detestation
painted
out
in
her
cullours
by
that
worthie
and
famous
Souldier
Mounsieur
de
La
Noüe
.
MAGNA
EST
VERITAS
ET
PRAEVALET
.
FINIS
.
PRO
LEGE
REGE
,
ET
GREGE
·LOVE
KEPYTHE
THE
LAWE
,
OBEYETH
THE
KYNGE
,
AND
IS
GOOD
TO
THE
COMMEN
WELTHE·
❀
Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
Notes for div A20909-e570