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 severall Companies) then upon the Generals, whose care 

 hath bene more generall. And how may it be thought 

 that every captaine, upon whom most of the charges of 

 raising their Companies was laid as an adventure, could 

 provide themselves of all things expedient for a war, 

 which was alwaies wont to be maintained by the purse of 

 the prince. But admit every captaine had his Surgeon : 

 yet were the want of curing never the lesse : for our 

 English Surgeons (for the most part) be unexperienced in 

 hurts that come by shot ; because England hath not 

 knowen wars but of late, from whose ignorance proceeded 

 this discomfort, which I hope wil warne those y* here- 

 after go to the wars to make preparation of such as 

 may better preserve mens lives by their skill. 



From whence the want of cariages did proceed, you Amtoere to 

 may conjecture in y l we marched through a countrey the f ourth - 

 neither plentiful of such provisions, nor willing to part 

 from any thing : yet this I can assure you, that no man 

 of worth was left either hurt or sicke in any place un- 

 provided for. And that the General commanded all the 

 mules & asses that were laden with any baggage to be 

 unburdened and taken to that use : and the earle of 

 Essex and he for mony hired men to cary men upon 

 pikes. And the earle (whose true vertue and nobilitie, as 

 it doeth in all other his actions appeare, so did it very 

 much in this) threw down his own stuffe, I meane 

 apparel & necessaries which he had there, from his owne 

 cariages, and let them be left by the way, to put hurt and 

 sicke men upon them. Of whose honorable deservings 

 I shall not need here to make any particular discourse, 

 for that many of his actions do hereafter give me occasion 

 to observe the same. 



And the great complaint that these men make for the Answere to 

 want of victuals may well proceed from their not know- e *ft % 

 ing the wants of the war ; for if to feed upon good bieves, 

 muttons & goats, be to want, they have endured great 

 scarcitie at land, wherunto they never wanted, two daies 

 together, wine to mixe with their water, nor bread to eat 



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