Articles and ordinances of warre

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Title
Articles and ordinances of warre
Author
Scotland. Army.
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[London] :: Printed at Edinburg by Evan Tyler, printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. And reprinted at London for Robert Bostocke, dwelling at the signe of the Kings-Head in Pauls Church-yard,
1644.
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Great Britain -- History
Scotland
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"Articles and ordinances of warre." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A92531.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.

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VI.

All Commanders and Officers shall be carefull, both by their authority and example, that all under their charge, live in godlinesse, sobernesse, and righteousnesse: And if they them∣selves shall be common swearers, cursers, drunkards, or any of them at any time shall come drunke to his Guard, or by quarel∣ling, or any other way shall commit any notable disorder in this quarter, losse of place shall be his punishment; And further, ac∣cording to the sentence of the Court of War.

The Captaines that shall be negligent in training their Com∣panies, or that shall be found to withhold from their souldiers any part of their pay, shall be discharged of their place, and fur∣ther censured by the Court of War.

No Commander or Officer shall conceale dangerous and discontented humours, inclined to mutinies, or grudging at the orders given them, but shall make them knowne to the prime Leaders of the Army, upon the paine to be accounted guilty of mutiny.

No Commander or Officer shall authorize, or wittingly per∣mit any Souldier to goe forth to a singular combate, under paine of death: But on the contrary, all Officers shall be carefull By all meanes to part quarrellings amongst Souldiers, although they be of other Regiments or Companies, and shall have

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power to command them to prison, which if the Souldiers shall disobey or resist by using any weapon, they shall die for it.

No Captaine shall presume at his owne hand, without war∣rant of the Lord Generall, to casseer or give a Passe to any en∣rolled Souldier or Officer, who hath appeared at the place of the generall Rendezvous; nor shall any Commander, Officer, or Souldier depart without a Passe, or stay behinde the time ap∣pointed him in his Passe; and whosoever transgresseth the one way or the other, shall be punished at the discretion of the Court of War.

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