Here begynneth the table of the rubryshys of the boke of the fayt of armes and of chyualrye whiche sayd boke is departyd in to foure partyes ...

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Here begynneth the table of the rubryshys of the boke of the fayt of armes and of chyualrye whiche sayd boke is departyd in to foure partyes ...
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Christine, de Pisan, ca. 1364-ca. 1431.
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[Westminster :: Printed by William Caxton,
1484]
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Military art and science -- Early works to 1800.
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"Here begynneth the table of the rubryshys of the boke of the fayt of armes and of chyualrye whiche sayd boke is departyd in to foure partyes ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20894.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.

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¶Here fynyssheth the seconde partye of thys boke / & sequent¦ly foloweth the thirde partye that speketh of the ryghtes of armes after the lawes /

  • THe first chapitre deuyseth by what meane xprystyne added to thys boke that whiche is sayd in the lawe of the fayttes of armes /
  • ¶Item demaundeth Cristyne / & the maister ansuereth / yf the emperoure may of ryght moeue werre aienst the pope / c / ij
  • ¶Item whether the pope may moeue werre ayenst the Emperoure Chapitre / iij /
  • ¶Item deuyseth of the puyssaunce and auctorite of the hed captayne after the lawe / and for what causes the men of ar¦mes may renne to the peyne capitall / C / iiij /
  • ¶Item whether a vassall be holden by ryght of the lawe to serue his lord in werre atte his owne propre expenses / C / v
  • ¶Item demaundeth whether the feed men be more holden to helpe the prynce souerayne in hys werre / than namely to thei¦re naturell lorde / & yf a gentyl man holdeth two tenementys

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  • of two lordes that make werre that one ayenst that other / Whiche of them he ought to helpe /
  • ¶Item whether al manere of souldiours after the ryght of the lawe may goo in all manere of werres / & deuyseth of the parell where the man of armes putteth him self whan he goeth to the werre that Iniuste ys and of makynge in the werre other wise than werre requyreth C / vij
  • ¶Item speketh of the popys ryght and the payment of the souldyours wages / C / viij /
  • ¶Item wether a taptayne of a certeyne nombre of men of armes may transmute them atte hys wylle syn that they be reteyned in wages / C / ix
  • ¶It yf a lorde sende a man of armes in garnison to som fortres of his owne without that eny wages be promysed hym / & that hit happeth hym to be robbed and dyspoylled by the waye to whyche of bothe may he demaunde hys interesses and the recouere of his losse or to the lorde that so sent hym thidre / or to hym that so hath robbed hym / And yf a man of armes be com to serue a lorde in hys werre wythout couena¦unt of wages / Whether the lorde be holden forto paye hym or not C / x /
  • ¶Item yf a kynge had sent socours to another kynge without he had requyred hym so to doo whether he were holde for to paye them or not C xj
  • ¶Item yf a kynge hath werre with another kynge & is willyng to renne vpon hym with a grete oost Is nowe to wite whether the lordes thrughe whos lordshippes he and his ost must passe may by ryght chalenge the passage / how wel y so were that noo harme were by hym nor hys doon there / & that noo vitaille they toke but yt they paied wel for / C / xij
  • ¶Item and yf a man of armes borowe bothe horse and

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  • harneys and leseth hit now is to wite whethre he shulde pa¦ye for hit or not / C xiij
  • ¶It yf a man that had be sore wounded of another the whiche after the stroke were fledde awaye / and that the other so hurt recouered helthe / & cam and hurted that other man / Whether iustyce shulde punysshe hym therfore / C xiiijo·
  • ¶Item whether cawtelles and subtylytees of werre are Iuste and of reason to be doo / C / xvo· /
  • ¶Item yf a man of armes whiche is aaged were distres¦sed and robbed by the waye somwhere / whether he myght of ryght aske of the lorde that had sent hym forth his losse & domages C / xvj
  • ¶It & yf a lorde doo sende socours of men of werre to som other lorde without he be so required of hym so to doo whether he to whome they ben thus sent is boūde for to paye them or not / C xvij
  • ¶Item whether it is licyte to men of werre for to take eny vitaylles of the poure or ryche man vpon the lande whan they be wel payed of theyre wages C / xviij
  • ¶Item demandeth what men ought to doo with suche dis¦poylles and proyes that ben goten by waye of werre / C / xix
  • ¶Item / begynneth to speke of prisoners of werre / and aduyseth how a myghty man taken in werre ought to be presented to the prynce / and how not / C / xx
  • ¶Item whether men ought to doo deye the chief captayne of an oost / or som other grete man of armes whiche is ta∣ken in the werre / or ellis to be delyuered to the prynce / C / xxj
  • ¶Item whether it is ryght that men shall take vpon the enemyes grounde the symple labourers and plough men that medle not of the werre C / xxij /
  • ¶Item yf a studyaūt englyssheman were fonde atte scoles

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  • in parys / or ellis another lyke of another nacyon / whether he myght be taken and putte to raenson C / xxiij /
  • ¶It yf som grete lorde of England or of som other con∣trey where werre is / whiche as madde and out of wit were fledde in to ye forest / whether men myght after ryght taken him & putte him to raēson he so being out of his wit / c / xxiiij
  • ¶Item and yf it happed that vpon the froūters be taken som olde man burgeys of london / or of som other cytee of en¦gland that neuere dyde medle of the werre / Whether suche a man ought for to paye raenson or not by ryght of the lawe and semblably of a yonge chylde / and also of a blynde man
  • ¶Item yf it happed so that som ambaxadours cam to war¦dys the kynge of Fraunce / and that they comynge thrughe Bordeewx / had hyred there of englyshemen horses or cartes whether suche thynges myght be in Fraunce arrested or not / And whether an englysh preeste / beyng in in Fraun¦ce myght be putte to raenson or not C xxvj
  • ¶Item whether a prysoner of werre whiche is al wayes kept clos / yf he can goo out brekyng vp hys pryson / shall renne in eny deffaulte so to doo C / xxvij
  • ¶Item whether a gentyl man prysoner of werre ought rather to dey than to breke hys othe & his promesse / c / xxviij
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