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year. He was bound to carry with him three archers oilhorseback, and to accompany the King wherever be went.In return, he was to receive yearly forty marks, or pounds,to be paid at the rate of ten marks every quarter. Hewas allowed twelve pennies per day for subsistencemoney, and each of his archers had twenty marks a year,and six pennies daily for subsistence. The chief army sur-geon, Morstede, was engaged with fifteen men, three ofwhom were to be archers, and the remaining twelve surgeons.He received also ten pounds quarterly as pay, and twelvepennies daily for subsistence. His archers and surgeonswere placed on an equal fooling; each was to receive quar-terly five pounds, and six pennies a day subsistence. BothColnet and Morstede could receive prisoners and plunder;but when the latter amounted to above twenty pounds invalue, one-third to be given to the King. Both these menhad a quarter’s pay in advance; and that they might alwayshave security for the next quarter, the King engaged to putinto their bands, by way of pledge, as many jewels, or otherarticles, as might be equivalent to one quarter’s pay andsubsistence.”
The Rev. Walter IJarte, in his life ofGustavus Adolphus,appears to believe that this prince first appointed four sur-geons to each regiment, which he reduced from the numberof two or three thousand, first to 1200, and afterwards to1008; and he is of opinion, that it may with certainty bebelieved, that the imperial troops at that time had no sur-geons, because that Tilly himself, after the battle of Leipsic,was obliged to cause his own wounds to be dressed by asurgeon established at Halle. He informs his readers, in anote, that the Austrians, till the year 1718, had no regimen-tal surgeons appointed. A German historian of eminencehimself is obliged to admit, that, however this may be, it iscertain that the field establishments of the Imperial annygtill the beginning of the eighteenth century, were upon avery bad footing. Even in the year 1718, they had no fieldsurgeons; at this period the company surgeons were dis-missed, and a regimental surgeon, with six assistants, wasappointed to each regiment; and besides the field medicinechest, surgical instruments were provided at the Emperor ’sexpense.
But it should be added, injustice to German poliev, thatit really does appear in what Fronsperger says, who wrotein the middle of the sixteenth century, that he does notspeak of field surgeons, army surgeons, and their servants,as then recently introduced, but expresses himself in a manner