The Scotch military discipline learned from the valiant Swede, and collected for the use of all worthy commanders favouring the laudable profession of armes: By Major Generall Monro, being novv generall of all the Scotch forces against the rebels in Ireland, communicates his abridgement of exercise, in divers practicall observations for the younger officers better instruction; ending with the souldiers meditations going on in service.

The twenty second Duty discharged of our March from Wurtzburg to Franc∣ford on the Maine.

HIS Majesty having beset Wurtzburg Castle with a strong Swedens Garrison, under command of Colonell Axellille, preparation being made for the march, the Colonell of the Artillery, Leonard Richard∣son a Swede, was directed downe the Maine, with the great Cannon, and three hundred commanded musketiers of Scots, of Sr. Iames Ramfey his Regi∣ment comanded by Alexander Hanan, being a discreete Cavalier, of good command and conduct, and valorous also: they had abundance of Cannon, fire-workes, Amunition, and all other furniture belonging to Artillery, with them by water, having got orders to take in all strengths on the Maine, which lay in their way, where they and he who commanded them, made good booty, having taken in severall Castles, and Miltenburg also, and from thence continued their course downe the water towards Ashaffenburg, a City and a Castle on the Maine belonging to the Bishop of Mentz, where they had orders to remaine till his Majesties coming with the Army.

This march continued for five dayes, where we had nightly good quar∣ters by the way, being in feare of no enemy we kept the whole march, the Maine on our right hand, & our horsemen upon the left, having had the Felt∣marshall with his Army lying at Bambridge, betwixt us and the enemy, so that this march, though in winter, was not so troublesome unto us, as their travelling is to them, who journey in forraine countries, for to see strange fa∣ces, where they must needs lay out monies for their entertainment, some of us on this march were well entertained, and did get mony besides to spend at Francford.

Likewise when it behoved travellers to hire guides, [ L] and sometimes to hire convoies for their safeties, we had Gustavus a King under God, our Lea∣der, and a powerfull Army to convoy us, and at night, the sweete, and so∣ciable society of our countrimen and strangers, the one to season the other, which made our march pleasant, alongst the pleasant and fruitfull River of the Maine, that runnes through faire Franconia into the Rhine at Mentz.

Having come with the Army, the length of Hanow, leaving Ashaffenburg behinde us, we marched to Steinhem, which presently we tooke in by accord, where the most part of the Souldiers did take service, which being done, his Majesty did send unto the Lords of Francford, desiring them for the well of the professours of the Evangell, to take in a Carrison, with a protesta∣tion, if they refused to doe it willingly, it behoved him otherwise to deale with them, which was not his desire.

They having taken the proposition, for two dayes, in advisement, his Ma∣jesty the sixteenth of November, did let quarter the Army before their Ports in Offenback, Ober and Nider Rode; the next day they consented, his Majesties Army should march through, leaving six hundred men in Garri∣son in Saxenhowsen, the Lords giving their Oath to secure the Garrison of Saxenhowsen of all dangers, and on the seventeenth of November his Maje∣sty

with the whole Army in comely order marched alongst the bridge, from Saxenhowsen through the Towne of Francford to wards Hechst, where there lay two miles off the Towne a Garrison of the enemies. In this march through Francford, such order was kept without any disorder, as if it were the solemne procession of a King and his nobles in parliament, every one admiring of his Majesties good order and discipline kept over his Army.

The nineteenth of November, [ M] Hechst was taken in by his Majesty with accord, where the Souldiers for the most part tooke service. The next day the Army lying still in Dorpes, his Majesty returned to Francford, and met with the Landgrave of Hessen, the Landgrave of Darmstat and with the Earles of the Vetro, where it was agreed amongst them, for the defence of the Land, to joyne in one confederacy, where the Castle of Russelshem was given un∣to his Majesty by the Landgrave of Darmstat, whereon two hundred Scots of Colonell Lodowick Lesly his Regiment were set, under command of Cap∣taine Macdowgall.

The next day being the two and twentith of November, his Majesty re∣turned to Hechst againe, and having put forth the Papists, placing his owne Preachers, on Sunday his Majesty thanked God, that he had gotten in Franc∣fort without bloud or stroake of sword. His Majesty caused to set over a ship-bridge at Hechst, and sent ships before Mentz, to blocke it by water, till his Majesty with the Army crossed the Maine, and marched by Darm∣stat in the Bergstrasse, of intention to have gone for Heidelberg, but retiring downe neere the Rhine, having quartered the Army, his Majesty with a party did visit the Skonce of Openham, and thereafter resolved to take it in.