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Title:  The practice, proceedings, and lawes of armes described out of the doings of most valiant and expert captaines, and confirmed both by ancient, and moderne examples, and præcedents, by Matthevv Sutcliffe.
Author: Sutcliffe, Matthew, 1550?-1629.
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victuals into the army sufficient, and for feare of want layde vp a∣bundance in garners, and storehouses in strong places neere to the countrey, where their army soiourned. Opposing their for∣ces against Annibal, they choseLiu. 21.Clastidium for their storehouse. Caesar in the wars against thē of Auuergne brought all his prouisi∣on toCaes bel. gal. 7.Nouiodune, because it lay neere. The Romanes caused their ships of victuals to discharge atEo omnes ex Italia oneariae naues dirigebant cursum. Liu. l. 37.Chios in their warres against An∣tiochus: He chose Lysimachia for the place of his store. For the warres ofLiu. l. 44.Macedonia they made their prouision in Thessaly.Caesar crtis lo∣cis horrea consti∣tuit, frumentum conquir iussit. de bel. ciu. 3.Caesar had his garners in conuenient places to supply his army in his warres against Pompey. Pompey brought all his prouision to Dyrrha∣chium.Asdrubal entringFines hostium ingrediens fru∣mentum comme∣atus{que} in vrbem Asenam conue∣xit. Liu. 23.Spaine caried all the victuals, and store of the countrey into Asena: and Scipio likewise landingHorrea noua aedificata vetea á Scipione repleta & frumento ex population: bus & commeatu Si∣culo. Liui. 29.in Afrike made newe storehouses, and filled both new and olde partly with victu∣als sent out of Sicile, and partly with those which hee got by the spoile of ye countrey. When a strong army commeth into any coun∣trey, it is no masterie for the same to findeFormidine po∣pulationis obsides frumentum & a∣alia quae vsui fo∣rent affatim prae∣bita. Salust. bel. Iugurth.victuals & forrage either by feare, or force. But the companies sent into France and Flanders, being so weake, it was no marnell if they pined being pend vp or confined within some garrison, the enemie being alwayes stronger without. For the assurance of our victuals that come vnto vs, ga∣risons would be placed in conuenient distances. Caesar in the warres with thePeditū 10000. sibi celeriter mit∣ti voluit, quò ex∣peditiore re fru∣mentaria vtere∣tur. Caes. bel. Gal. 7.Auuergnacs vsed 10. thousand Heduans to this purpose. Neither would he suffer anyVellaunodu∣num ne quem post se hostem re∣linqueret, quo expeditiore refru∣mentaria vtere∣tur, oppugnare instituit. ibidem. towne to remaine vntaken betwixt him and his victuals. For the fetching in of victuals, a conueni∣ent power of horsemen would be sent forth seconded with footemen, to forrage, and range the countrey.Besides this the army would haue diuers cariages laden with victuals to be assigned to euery regiment, and to follow the ar∣my; as it was in the expedition of Cyrus into Persia. Such as dwell neere where our army goeth, would be summoned to bring victuals into the army, vnlesse they would haue their countrey ruinated. And as the Romanes had ayde of victuals in the warres ofLiu. 21.Carthage out of Sicile, in the warres ofLiu. 31.Macedonia out of A∣frike: and Caesar in his warres of Belgium was furnished fromCaes. bel. gal. 2.Rheims, in his warres with theCaes. bel. gal. 1.Heluetians, from the Hedu∣ans: so our associates, such especially as dwell neere, are to be 0