A bibliography of English military books up to 1642 and of ...
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house.' On Feb. 6th, 1597, he was still in the Tower. On July 13th, 1598,<br />
he wrote again <strong>to</strong> the Lord Treasurer, from Little Baddow, " My poor house<br />
<strong>and</strong> prison," as he calls it, expressing himself as "content within his restraint,<br />
as though he had all Engl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Europe <strong>to</strong> travel in at his pleasure."<br />
In a letter <strong>of</strong> May, 1 590, Smythe speaks <strong>of</strong> four or five little <strong>books</strong> that he<br />
had written, all treating, more or less, on matters <strong>of</strong> arms. Among the<br />
Harleian MSS." in the British Museum is preserved a transcription <strong>of</strong> an<br />
unpublished treatise <strong>of</strong> his, entitled "A Military Discourse, whether it be<br />
better for Engl<strong>and</strong> <strong>to</strong> giue an Invador present Battaile, or <strong>to</strong><br />
temporize <strong>and</strong><br />
deferr the same." It was written in answer <strong>to</strong> Thomas Digges' letter <strong>to</strong><br />
Leicester, entitled "A briefe discourse what orders were best for repulsing<br />
<strong>of</strong> forraigne force, if at any tyme they should invade us in Kent or elsewhere.'"<br />
47. Fifteen-ninety. Valdes, Francisco de.<br />
The Serieant Maior. A Dialogue <strong>of</strong> the Office <strong>of</strong> Sergeant<br />
Maior. . . . Translated in<strong>to</strong> <strong>English</strong>e, by lohn Thorins.<br />
London. Printed by yohn Wolfe, 1590.<br />
Quar<strong>to</strong>.<br />
A-H in fours, <strong>and</strong> a leaf <strong>of</strong> I.<br />
Dedicated by Thorins <strong>to</strong> Sir John Norris,<br />
President <strong>of</strong> Munster.— Hazlitt, iii. 63.<br />
The ed. <strong>of</strong> the original, Brussels, 1589, is always accompanied by the<br />
" Discurso sobre la Disciplina militar " <strong>of</strong> Londono, <strong>and</strong>, indeed, one work is<br />
the complement <strong>of</strong> the other. Valdes <strong>and</strong> Londono were eminent soldiers<br />
who managed equally well the ba<strong>to</strong>n, the sword, <strong>and</strong> the pen. " El Espejo,"<br />
as Valdes' work is entitled in the Spanish, like the " Disciplina," was written,<br />
probably, about 1568. It is in dialogue, a form much afFe6led by these<br />
early writers, the speakers being Vargas <strong>and</strong> Londono ; <strong>and</strong> describes the<br />
<strong>of</strong>fice <strong>and</strong> duties <strong>of</strong> the Sergeant Major, an <strong>of</strong>ficer corresponding <strong>to</strong> the<br />
modern adjutant, concerning whom the following description is given in the<br />
opening pages :<br />
" The Sergeant Major is an <strong>of</strong>ficer, the minister general <strong>of</strong><br />
the whole regiment, s<strong>up</strong>erintending the Sergeants <strong>of</strong> the same : through<br />
whom the Master <strong>of</strong> the Camp, or Colonel, gives the orders necessary for<br />
right government <strong>and</strong> ordering in<br />
marching, quartering, <strong>and</strong> fighting, <strong>and</strong><br />
things thereun<strong>to</strong> appertaining." " Everything is admirably explained," says<br />
Almirante, " <strong>and</strong> the rules laid down are most sensible."<br />
[V. No. 48 <strong>and</strong> Orig. 562.]<br />
*<br />
Lansd. MSS. Ixxxii. 65, 66, 67, 71. Sedition <strong>and</strong> Confession.<br />
»<br />
Harl. MSS. 4685.<br />
*<br />
Included in the 2nd ed. <strong>of</strong> the " Stratioticos," 1590.<br />
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