might haue best leisure to be absent from their mo
needefull and necessarie Countrie affaires.Also I would that no horsemen,No foot alter their vpon . nor footmen to what
armor and weapon soeuer they bee inrolled, should alter
or chaunge themselues from the same kinde of armors and
weapons that he or they are inrolled vnto vpon verie se∣uere
punishment, without the special appointment of their
Captain, or Captaines; and therefore it is verie conueni∣ent
that al Captains aswell of horsmen as footmen should
euer haue all their officers of their bandes alwaies ready
& wel known to their whole bands,The office al bands to be well knowne to soldiors of bands & the bands to the as also the whole bāds
vnto them: as their Lieutenantes, their Ensignebearers,
their Sergeants: And that all those officers should be men
of credite and account, and inhabiters in the same shires,
and that al those officers should haue the muster Rolles of
the names of all the souldiors with their different wepons
that they are inrolled vnto, in as great perfections as the
Captaines: that thereby, as also for diuers other causes
they should haue a continual eie that the souldiors of their
bands should not through any kinde of negligence grow
into any imperfections, or disorders; And therewithall
that the Corporals of the footmen, who should haue 50.
souldiors vnder their seuerall charges, (their own persons
in that number conteined) should neuer be without a per∣fect
Roll of the particular names of the souldiors of their
Corporalates, and to what armor and weapons euery sol∣dior
is inrolled, and where they dwell: And therewithall
that they should haue speciall care, to see and diligently to
inquire, whether the souldiors of their charge and Corpo∣ralates
do vpon such holidaies as aforesaid, exercise them∣selues
with their weapons, in the Townes, parishes, ham∣lets,
or plaes where they are ordinarilie resident as also
that at conuenient times they should see whether their
arming aparell, armors and weapons be well and order∣lie
kept without any thing lacking: And for the orderlie
obseruation and performance of all the most requisit mat∣ters
by me before set downe, as also others that haue no0
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