1642 ENGLISH CIVIL WAR Military History PARLIAMENTARIAN ARMY DISCIPLINE Essex

  
[ESSEX, Robert Devereux, Earl of]. Camp discipline, or, the souldiers duty. In certain Articles and Ordinances of Warre, commended to be observed in the Armie of Scotland.

By his excellence The lord Generall of the said Armie. Modern green half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards. Murther is no lesse unlawful & intolerable in the time of war, then in the time of peace, and is to be punished with death.

Whosoever shall be found to have forced any woman, whether he be Commander of Souldier, shall die for it without mercie. And whosoever shell be found guiltie of adulterie or fornication, shall be no lesse severly censured and punished than in the time of peace'. Devereux was a leading figure in the political events which gave rise to the English Civil War, even before his appointment of Captain General and taking command of the first significant action of the Parliamentary army at Edgehill. Essex's control over the Roundhead army ended on the passing of the Self-Denying Ordinance in April 1645. ESTC records copies at just ten locations (BL, Eton, Folger, Harvard, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, LCP, Lincoln's Inn, Oxford, Pennsylvania, UoL, and York Minster). We offer a wealth of antiquarian books, specialising in early and hand-press printing - but not excluding all others! We are proud and active members of the ABA (Antiquarian Booksellers Association), ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers) and the PBFA (Provincial Book Fairs Association) - professional bodies for the antiquarian book trade, abiding by their codes of practice and exhibiting at several large national and regional book fairs each year. From customers in the UK we accept. For customers from the rest of the world we accept. All books are expertly wrapped, dispatched via national and international postal or courier services, and fully insured from our door to yours.