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Lord of Essex, or any of Us who makethis Eolation ; Nor did we conceivewhat Reason his-Lordship had for it jSure we are, he travelled the Armymuch, without Victuals, and lostTime,giving the Enemy Time to prepare forus, in all Places thereabouts, whichchiefly made our Journy so fruitless;Whereas my Lord Marshal excuses hisnot Haying for the Advice of a Councilof War, for his going towards theBridge, upon some Words my Lord ofValentia used to him there, viz. seingmany of the Enemy standing on a Hill,near him, " that his Lordship should" not do well, when he came near the" Enemy, to stand still; For it would" both encourage the Enemy, and dis-“ hearten his own Men." At whichTime, the Lord of Valentia did notknow he had called a Council, whichwas the Cause of his Stay. Besides, itwas but his particular Advice, and myLord Marshal needed not have follow-ed it, {g) if he had not approved it.And farther, in Effect he might havedone both ; For he might then havesent out the Forlorn Hope , or more lit-tle Troops, to put the Enemy the far-ther off ( h ) which would easily havebeen done, and have staid with the Bo-dy of the Army until the Council hadbeen assembled, and had debated theBusiness, and given their Opinions.

The Night, the Army quartered inthe Fields, some Leagues short of theBridge, and near some straglingHouses,in many of which there was Wine; But

principally there was great Store, where'my Lord Marjhal quartered himself,which was the House of Don Lewis deSato ; By the Way, the Soldiers com-plained for Want of Victuals; Thosewho were landed with Colonel Burghmost, who had not had any in twoDays. My Lord Marjhal , as the Ar-my past by, told the Soldiers, theyshould have to every Regiment a Butt.of Wine, which was given ; Andwhich the Colonels, and chief Officers,gave sparingly to their Soldiers; Yethow it came, particularly to fay, weknow not, whether there, or in otherstragling Houses near Quarter, certainit is, the Soldiers got more Wine thanwas delivered them from their Officers,and so much, as within a very fewHours, most of the whole Army, ex-cept the Officers, were drunk, somemore, some less, yet all disorderly.Insomuch, as we verily believe, if theEnemy had that Night set upon us, butwith four or five Hundred Men, theymight easily have defeated the wholeArmy. That this Drunkenness and Dis-order was not occasioned by the Winethe Soldiers had delivered them bytheir Officers, appears ; Because someRegiments, viz. Sir Charles Rich's andSir Edward Conway's, had none ; theirButts, by rowling to the Quarter, be-ing staved by the Way, and yet theirMen were as drunk as the Rest. Wethink, my Lord Marjhal, who rodebefore, with the foremost Troops (7),and came first into the Quarter, and

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(jg) I fear he who put in that Clause has notteen so long at the Wars, as roy Lord of Valentiahas been ; For if I should not believe she Reportof a Soldier of that Experience, and a chief Of-ficer of the Army, from wsiom Should I take aReport ?

(h ) He who put in that Advice was 00 bettera Soldier than the other ; For to discover Horsewith Foot was never heard of; But to discoverFoot with Horse is ordinary. To fend out aFor hr 71 rhpe , and to have it cut off before ourFaces (which Horse might have done) and-we noWay able to relieve them, was wholfome Ad-vice, and a Man fit to judge of the Errors of hisLilies: But Time may make him know better;For no Man is born a Soldier; Tho' a Man maybe too soon, after he is born, a Colonel.

( i ) He re they charge the Disorders of theSoldiers to my Want of Care ; And, that I, go-ing before, should have known of the Store ofWine. This Iheweth, that he who was the CauseH thisConceit, doth think that he could have com-manded the Army better than the Marshal : ButUee, tho'he gives me Directions, yet he did notknow why I rode before ; For, at my going be-fore, I knew os no Wine; But went to quarter

the Troops, which I did myself, tho' it was notroy Place ; Neither is there any Notice, in allthe. Journal, of that, or any other Pains andCare I took, Neither of roy Watching the threeNights we were on Land, which because Yo.ushould be sensible of, I came often in the Nightto You- I take it, this Relation was to some o-ther Purpose ; But all this while., I knew of noWine, in all the whole Village, which I took tobe a barren Place.

But .aster I had quartered the Troops, I re-turned to the House of Don Lewis de Solo, tosee the Army march into their Quarters: ThenI was told, that there was a Cellar of Wine in-it; And that if it might he delivered to everyRegiment, it would much refresh them, as they.had no Drink. The Disorders which come ofWine is one of the most dangerous Mischiefswhich can befall any Army ; and I could ne-ver hear of any Army that could avoid the Dan-ger, if they fell into the Inconvenience.. Sol-diers are so addicted to Wine, that they will runinto all Dangers to come at it. Set a Guard ofcommon Soldiers upon Wine, and they will be thefirst to be drunk, as they were in this House,

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