KNow ye , That We , being compelled to Our great grief to raise an Army for the chastising and suppressing of certain Our disloyall and Rebellious Subjects , who , casting away all fear of God from before their eyes , have of late taken up Armes , and levied war against Us their naturall Liege Lord , Our Crown and Dignity ; and by way of open hostility have spoyled Our loving Subjects in sundry places , of their goods and lives : Have now further thought fit , by the advice and councell of Our right trusty and well beloved Cousin and Counsellor , Robert Earle of Lindsey , &c. Lord Lieutenant Generall of Our said Army , and Armies , throughout this Our Realm of England , to make , ordain , and establish certain Lawes and Ordinances for the better government of Our said Armies , which We hereby command inviolably to be observed , under the pain and penalty in them respectively expressed , of the Tenor following .

FIrst , let no man presume to blaspheme the holy Trinity , God the Father , God the Sonne , and God the holy Ghost ; Nor the known Articles of Christian Faith ; upon pain to have his tongue bored through with a red-hot Iron .

2 Unlawfull Oathes and Execrations , and scandalous acts in derogation of Gods honour , shall be punished with losse of pay , and other punishments , at discretion .

3 In the same manner shall be punished all those who abuse and prophane Places , and Vtensils , or Ornaments dedicated to Gods worship , or violate , or wrong his Ministers .

4 All those , who often and wilfully absent themselves from Sermons , and from Morning and Evening Prayer , shall be proceeded against at discretion : And all Commanders are straightly charged to see Almighty God reverently served , and Sermons and Prayers duly frequented by their severall Companies , upon pain of being taken and judged negligent in their Office .

5 No man shall use any traiterous words against his Majesties Sacred Person , or Royall Authority , upon pain of death .

6 Whosoever shall be convicted to doe His Majesties service negligently , and carelesly , shall be punished at discretion .

7 Whosoever shall presume to violate His Majesties safeguard , or safe conduct , shall dye without mercy .

8 Whosoever shall use any words , tending to the hurt or dis-honour of the Lord-Lieutenant-Generall , shall be punished with death .

9 No man shall presume to quarrell with his superior Officer , upon pain of cashiering , and arbitrary punishment , nor in such quarrell to lift up his hand to strike any such , upon pain of death .

10 No man shall resist , draw , lift , or offer to draw , or lift his weapon against an Officer , correcting him for his offence , upon pain of death .

11 No Souldier shall depart from his Captain without licence , though he serve still in the Army , upon pain of death .

12 Every private man and Souldier , upon pain of imprisonment , shall keep silence when the Army is to take lodging , or when it is marching or imbattailing , so as the Officers may be heard , and their commands executed .

13 No persons shall make any unlawfull assembly , or be present or assisting thereunto , or in , or by them demand their pay , upon pain of death .

14 No man shall resist any Officer in the execution of his Office , or break prison , upon pain of death .

15 None shall utter any words tending to sedition and uproar , or mutiny , upon pain of death .

16 The same punishment shall be inflicted upon them , who , after they have heard mutinous speeches , acquaint not their Commanders with them .

17 Whosoever shall receive an injury , and shall take his own satisfaction , shall be punished by imprisonment , and as it shall be thought fit by the Martiall-Court : But he that is injured , shall be bound , if he doe not forgive the injury , to seek reparation by complaint to his Captain or Colonell , or other superiour Officer , and it shall be given him in ample manner .

18 Drunkennesse in an Officer shall be punished with losse of place : in a common Souldier with such penalties as the Lord Generall or Court-Marshall shall think fit .

19 No man shall use reproachfull or provoking words , or acts to any , upon paine of imprisonment , and such further punishment as shall be thought fit to be inflicted upon enemies of Discipline and Service .

20 No man shall take or spoile the goods of him that dyeth , or is killed in service , upon pain of restoring double the value , and arbitrary punishment .

21 All Souldiers comming to their Colours to watch or to be exercised , shall come fully armed , upon pain of severe correction .

22 None shall presume to appear with their Arms unfit or undecently kept , upon pain of Arbitrary Correction .

23 If a Trooper shall loose his Horse or Hackney , or a Footman any part of his Arms , by negligence , or lewdnesse , by Dice , or Cards , he or they shall remain in quality of Pioners , and Scavengers , till they be furnished with as good as were lost , at their own charge .

24 No Town or Countrey-man shall presume to buy , or take to pawn an Horse , or Arms , or Clothes , or Furniture of Tents , or Hutts of any Souldier , upon pain of forfeiting the double value thereof , and to be punished ; And the Souldier giving them to pawn , shall suffer a severe punishment .

25 If a Trooper shall spoyle his Horse willingly , of purpose to be rid of the Service , he shall loose his Horse , and remain in the Camp for Pioner .

26 If one borrows Arms of another , to passe the Muster withall , the borrower shall be rigorously punished , and the lender shall forfeit his goods .

27 None shall presume to spoyle , fell , or carry away any Ammunition delivered unto him , upon pain of death .

28 None on their March thorow the Countreys , under His Majesties Obedience , shall waste , spoile , or extort any Victualls , Money , or Pawn , from any Subject , upon any pretence of want whatsoever ; but shall pay for their Meat and Drink the usuall rates , upon pain of death .

29 No Souldier shall presume , in marching or lodging , to cut down any Fruit-trees ; or to deface or spoile any Walks of Trees , or Parks , or Warrens , or Fish-ponds , upon paine of severe punishment .

30 No man shall depart a Mile out of the Army , or Camp , without Licence , upon pain of death .

31 No man shall presume to draw his Sword without Order , after the watch is set , upon pain of death .

32 No man shall give a false Alarm , or discharge a Peece in the night , or make any noyse without lawfull cause , upon pain of death .

33 No man shall draw any Sword in private quarrell , within the Camp , upon pain of death .

34 He that makes known the Watch-word without Order , or gives any other word , but what is given by the Officer , shall dye for it .

35 No man shall doe violence to any that bring Victualls to the Camp , upon pain of death .

36 No man shall fail wilfully , to come to the Rendezvous appointed him by the Lord Generall , upon pain of death .

37 No man that carries Arms , and pretends to be a Souldier , shall remain three dayes in the Army , without being enrolled in some Company , upon pain of death .

38 No private Souldier shall out-stay his passe , without a Certificate of the occasion , under the hand of a Magistrate , at the next Muster , upon pain of losing his pay , during all the time of His absence .

39 He that absents himselfe , when the Signe is given to set the Watch , shall be punished at discretion , either with Bread and Water in Prison , or with the Wooden Horse .

40 Whosoever shall expresse his discontent with the Quarter given him in Camp or Garrison , shall be punished as a Mutineer .

41 No Officer , of what quality soever , shall go or lye out all night , without making his superior Officer acquainted with it .

42 All Officers , whose charge it is , shall see the Quarters kept clean , and sweet , upon paine of severe punishment .

43 No man shall fail immediately to repair unto his Colours , except upon evident necessity , when an Alarm is given , upon paine of death .

44 No man shall burn any House , or Barn , or spoile any Corn , Hay , or Straw in stacks in the fields , or any Ship , Boat , carriage or any thing that may serve for the provision of the Army , without Order , upon pain of death .

45 All Commanders and Officers , that find discontented humours , apt to mutiny , or any swerving from direction given , or from the policy of the Army set down , shall straitway acquaint the Lord Generall therewith , or others in authority above themselves , under pain of being taken , and reputed to be men negligent in their place and office .

46 An Officer that shall presume to defraud any Souldier of his pay , or any part thereof , shall lose his place , and be further punished , at the Lord Generals discretion .

47 No Corporall , or other Officer commanding the Watch , shall wittingly suffer a Souldier to goe forth to a Duell , or private Fight , upon paine of death .

48 Whosoever shall make or send a Challenge to his fellow Souldier , or otherwise provoke him to goe into the field to fight a Duell , or single Combat , the party so challenged or provoked , may , without all stain of Honour , & in duty ought to refuse the same , and at the next Court-Marshall or Councell of Warre to be held , shall have due and full reparation made him from the party challenging or provoking , by Order of the said Court , and the Challenger shall be further punished by the Lord Generall , or the said Court , as they shall see occasion .

49 If any shall upbraid a Souldier for refusing a challenge made or sent unto him , & demanding reparation at the Court , if he be an Officer , he shall lose his Office whatever it be , and be further punished at the discretion of the Lord Generall , or the Court ; but if a common Souldier , then with the wooden Horse , or at discretion .

50 If any shall make or send a challenge , or otherwise provoke a Captain , or other Officer of the Army to a Duell or single Combat , he shall dye for it without mercy .

51 If any two go into the field , & there draw their Swords and fight , though no death follow on either part , yet if they be Officers , they shall lose their places , and be disabled to bear Office in time to come , unlesse upon humble submission they or either of them shall be restored to that capacity by the Lord Generall in open Court , and by the assent of the Major part thereof then present : But if two common Souldiers shall so doe , they shall be punished with the wooden horse , or otherwise at the discretion of the Court , and the like to be done unto their and every of their Seconds , who in all respects , are to be taken for Principalls in these cases .

52 If any man shall refuse or forbear to go upon any Service commanded him by his Superiour , for feare of Danger , or other pretence whatsoever , or shall in time of fight retire before the retreat sounded , or shall throw away his Armes and flie , he shall dye for the same without mercy .

53 A Captain that is carelesse in the training of his Company , and exercising and governing them as he ought to doe , shall be displaced , as a man unworthy of that Office .

54 All Captaines and Officers , that shall out-stay their Passe , shall be punishable at the Lord Generall his discretion .

55 All Officers , of what condition soever , shall have power to part quarrells , and frayes , or sudden disorders betwixt the Souldiers , though it be in any other Regiment or Company ; and to commit the disorderer to prison for the present , untill such Officers as they belong unto are acquainted with it . And what Souldier soever shall resist , disobey , or draw his Sword against such an Officer , although he be no Officer of his Regiment or Company , shall be punished with death .

56 A Captain or Officer , not refiding in the place assigned him for Garrison , without speciall Licence obtained from the Lord Generall , or Governour of the place , shall for one whole weeks absence lose one whole moneths pay , and for fifteen dayes absence , two moneths pay ; and upon the third offence in this kind , shall be discharged of his Command , as a man negligent in his place , and unfit to bear Office in the Army .

57 No Captain shall cashier any Souldier that is enrolled , without speciall warrant of the Lord Generall .

58 No Captain of a Troop shall present , in the Musters , any but reall Troopers , such as are bound by their oath and pay to follow the Troop , upon pain of death , without mercy . And if any Towns-man or Countrey-man , Victualler , Free-booter , Enterloper , or Souldier whatsoever of any other Troop , or Company , shall present himselfe or his horse in the Muster to mislead the Muster-master , to defraud His Majesty , and to betray the Service , the same shall be punished with death .

59 No Captain of a Troop or Company shall take into his Troop or Company any Inhabitant of that place where the Troop or Company is in Garrison , upon paine of severe punishment , unlesse it be done by , and with the privity and consent of the Generall , or Governour of the place .

60 That every Captaine , with the helpe of all his Officers , every time his Company goes to the Watch , shall oversee every mans Armes , and where he findes any thing broken , to cause the owner thereof presently to mend them , and for what shall be lost , to commit the said Souldier to prison , untill he provide another , if it be not broken or lost in service : And that the said Captaine March in the head of his Company , at the setting of every Watch .

61 That the Captaine weekly pay not his Company , untill he hath all his Company come to him in Armes , that the Clerk that paies them , may both view the defect of Armes , and also default for the present mending of them .

62 No Provider , Keeper , or Officer of his Majesties Victuall or Ammunition , shall imbezell or spoil any part thereof , or give any false account to the Lord Generall , upon pain of death .

63 Whatsoever Provant-master , having received money from the King , shall bring and furnish the Camp with unsound and unsavoury Victuall of any kinde , whereby sicknesse may grow upon the Army , or the Service by that occasion be hindred , shall , upon complaint , be brought before the Court by the Provost-Marshall , and shall be heard what he can say for his justification ; wherein if he fail , he shall dye for such his offence .

64 No Muster-master shall wittingly let any passe in the Musters , but such as are really of the Troop or Company presented , upon pain of death .

65 All Captains shall cause their Troopes and Companies to be full and Compleat : And two daies after the generall mustering , they shall send the Lord Generall a perfect List , or Roll of all the Officers of their Troopes and Companies , and likewise of all the Troopers and Souldiers that are in actuall service .

66 The like Roll or List shall the Captains send to the Lord Generall , and to the Treasurer of the Army upon every pay-day during the service , with a punctuall expression at the bottome of the said Roll , what new Troopers or Souldiers have been entertained since the last pay-day , in lieu of such as are either deceased or cashered , and likewise the day whereon they were so cashered and entertained .

67 Which said List or Roll shall be subscribed , not only by the Captain , his Lieutenant , and Cornet or Ensigne , but also by the Serjeants and Corporalls respectively ; who shall declare , upon their oaths , That the Troopers and Souldiers in the said List , are reall and actuall Troopers , and Souldiers of the respective Troopes and Companies : And whosoever shall be convict of falsehood in any the premises , shall be punished with death .

68 No Muster-master shall presume to receive or accept of any Roll to make the Musters by , but the forementioned Rolls , upon pain of the losse of his place , and other punishment at discretion .

69 No man shall presume to present himselfe to the Muster , or to be inrolled in the Muster-Rolls by a counterfeit name or sirname , or place of birth , upon pain of death .

70 No Souldier shall be a Victualler without the consent of the Lord Generall or others authorized , upon pain of punishment at discretion .

71 No Victualler shall entertain any Souldiers in his House , Tent , or Hut , after the warning-peece at night , or before the beating of the Ravales in the morning .

72 All controversies between Souldiers and their Captains , and all others , shall be summarily heard and determined by the next Councell or Court of warre , except the weightinesse of the cause require further deliberation .

73 No Provost-Marshall shall refuse to keep a prisoner , by authority committed to his charge ; nor dismisse him being once received , upon pain of being liable to the same punishment which should have been inflicted upon the party dismissed .

74 The provost-Marshall , upon having a prisoner committed by authority to his charge , in case no Information be put in against him within foure and twenty houres , shall acquaint the Lord Generall or other chief Commander therewith , and , without speciall command to the contrary , shall dismisse his prisoner .

75 The Provost-Marshall having notice , That an information is given in against his Prisoner , in case the Prisoner be not brought to his triall within three dayes compleat , shall acquaint the Lord Generall , or other chief Commander therewith , and if he receive no command to the contrary , he shall forthwith let goe his Prisoner .

76 A Sentinell or Perdue found asleep , or drunk , or forsaking his place before he be relieved or drawn off , or shall not , upon discovery made , give warning to his Quarter according to direction , shall dye for such offence without mercy .

77 If any man imployed for a Guide upon the way , or a Spie upon the Enemy , shall be found false in the charge wherewith he is entrusted , he shall dye without mercy .

78 If any employed for a Scout , shall not discover so far as he is commanded , or having discovered any approach of the Enimy or ambushment , shall not speedily return , and give warning to his Quarter according to direction , he shall be punished at the discretion of the Lord Generall , or Court-Marshall ; and in case it shall be proved , that he entered into any house , and there lay sleeping or drinking , or otherwise idle whilest he should have been upon the Service , he shall be punished as a Sentinell , or Perdue , that is found drunk or sleeping .

79 No man shall presume to use any braving or menacing words , signes , or gestures , while the Court of Iustice is sitting , upon pain of death .

80 All Captains , Officers , and Souldiers shall do their endeavours to detect , apprehend , and bring to punishment all Offenders , and shall assist the Officers of the Army for that purpose , as they will answer their slacknesse in the Marshall-Court .

81 Every man shall be bound to be assisting , and aiding to the Provost-Marshall , in the execution of his office , being thereunto required in his Majesties or Lord Lieutenant-Generalls name , upon pain of Arbitrary punishment rigorously to be inflicted . And in case it be declared , by the said Provost , the cause concernes Treason or other Capitall offence , and the party arrested or committed , or to be arrested and kept by him , shall , for want of such aid and assistance , escape and get away , then he or they so refusing or forbearing to aid and assist him shall dye for it .

82 In matters of debt , words , or trespasse arising between a Souldier and another party not a Souldier , concerning any act done by the Souldier , the Constable or other Officer of the place , shall not arrest the Souldier , but complaint of the supposed words or trespasse shall be made against the Souldier to the Captain , or other chief Officer of the Company or Garrison , to whom such souldier shall belong , and such Officer shall do the party speedy right and Iustice ; And in default thereof , the Lord Generall , or Court-Marshall shall doe him right , both against the party , and also against the Captain , or other Officer who so refused , or delayed to doe him Iustice . Likewise if a Souldier shall have cause of complaint against a man that is no Souldier , he shall complain to the Civill-Magistrate , or Officer thereof , as the cause shall require , and shall expect , and have Iustice from him in time and place convenient .