We enter now on the fateful reign1 of Queen Elizabeth. The condition of England at its opening after the previous years of misgovernment was most unpromising. Wrenched2 from its moorings by the Reformation, the country had been tossed about by a hurricane of religious fanaticism3, which, working round through all points of the compass, had left her helpless and bewildered, uncertain by which course to steer4 or for what port to make head. Elizabeth was by political exigency5 rather than religious conviction a Protestant, but her great object in life was to sail, if she could, clear of the circular storm and lie outside it. The design was an impossible one, and her obstinate6 persistence7 therein went near to bring England to utter ruin, but in the extremely difficult position wherein she found herself on her accession to the throne she had much excuse for a tortuous8 policy. The finance was in hopeless disorder9, and the realm through long neglect virtually defenceless. There was no discipline in such forces as the country could raise; and the military stores, which her father had taken such pains to collect, appear to have perished. The French were in Scotland in considerable force, and, as the Council pointed10 out, France was a state military, while England was established for peace. There in reality lay the kernel11 of the whole matter. England was behind all Europe in military efficiency, and all Europe was keenly alive to the fact.
The situation was so desperate that heroic measures,[128] however distasteful to the Queen from their expense, were inevitable12. Arms were purchased hastily in vast quantities in Flanders, the forces of the shire were called out, and Elizabeth exercised in St. James' Park with fourteen hundred men of the trained-bands, who had been equipped by the city with caliver, pike, and halberd. But up in the north, the loyalty13 of the troops was doubtful, and their discipline more doubtful still. Fraud again was rife14 among the officers. The landsknechts during their stay had set the fashion of extravagance in clothing, and some captains, as it was quaintly15 said, carried twenty to forty soldiers in their hose. Thus, though the muster16-rolls of the army in Scotland showed eight thousand men for whom the Queen paid wages, but five thousand were actually with the colours, and the pay of the remaining three thousand went of course into the captains' pockets. This state of things was put down with a strong hand by special Commissioners17, and the little army round Leith became orderly and efficient; but corruption18 had sunk so deep that it had eaten its way even among the officials of the ordnance19 at the Tower of London.
The French, however, were in due time compelled to evacuate20 Scotland, and the danger in the north ceased to be pressing. There was, however, constant trouble in Ireland; and to provide the necessary troops to keep it in order, resort was made to an instrument of which we shall hear much in the years that follow, namely, the press-gang. None the less the revelations discovered by the war in Scotland prompted Cecil to require a report from the magistrates21 all over England as to the condition of the population and the working of the statutes22 enacted24 for national defence. The answer was by no means complimentary25 to the influence of the Reformation, nor encouraging in respect of military efficiency. The people, reported the magistrates, were no longer trained to the use of arms, because the gentlemen no longer set them the example. In plain words the old system of the fyrd, a people in arms,[129] was obsolete26. Not one but many causes had conspired27 to make it so. The country was passing through a social as well as a religious revolution; old landmarks28 were vanishing, old customs dying out; and the loss of the old faith had become to many an excuse for disburdening themselves of every irksome duty. Again, Calais was lost, and though there were still vague hopes that it might yet be regained29, England was now strictly30 insular31 and France was closed as a field of national adventure. The people had awaked to the fact that their heritage was the sea; and the life of the corsair, free, stirring, lucrative32, and dangerous, appealed powerfully to a race at once adventurous33 and grasping, energetic and casual, bold and born gamblers.
Moreover, the national weapon, the long-bow, and the tactics that went with it, were things of the past, while the new arms were at once distasteful and costly34, and in the unsettled state of the country not to be trusted in every man's hand. The whole business of war, too, was becoming difficult and elaborate, and was passing through transitions too rapid to permit it to be learned once for all. Military training no longer consisted in friendly matches at the archery butts36, but in precise movements of drill and man?uvre, unwelcome alike because their advantages were unrecognised, and because they could no longer be learned from the old masters. The acknowledged leaders in hundred and parish and shire gave place to experts trained in foreign schools, men who swaggered about in plumed37 hats and velvet38 doublets and extravagant39 hose, swearing strange oaths of mingled40 blasphemy41 taught by Spanish Catholics and Lutheran landsknechts, and prating42 of besonios and alferez, of camp-masters and rote-masters, of furriers and huren-weibels, of false brays43, mines and countermines, in one long insolent44 crow of military superiority. Such instructors45 were not likely to soften46 the painful lesson that war had become a profession, and could no longer be tacked47 on as a mere48 appendage49 to the everyday life of the citizen.
Now, therefore, if ever, was the time for the establishment of a standing50 army in England. She was menaced by foreign enemies on all sides, and in perpetual peril51 of intestine52 insurrection. There was unceasing trouble in Ireland, and eternal anxiety on the Scottish border. The forces of the shires had been proved to be worthless, and the service was not only inefficient53 but unpopular; the people came unwillingly54 to the muster, and would gladly have paid to be relieved of the burden. Great results would have followed from the institution of a standing force; order would have been maintained at home; interposition in foreign affairs would have had redoubled weight; untold55 expense through unreadiness, knavery56, and inefficiency57 would have been spared; and finally, the British Army would have grown up to be honoured as a great national possession, called into existence to stave off a great national peril, instead of to be abused as an instrument of tyranny, and to be condemned58 to a blighting60 heritage of jealousy61 and suspicion.
But Elizabeth would have none of such things. She refused, to her credit, to employ foreign mercenaries, and by breaking off that evil tradition did lasting62 good. But she was incapable63 of living except from hand to mouth. She hated straight dealing64 for its simplicity65; she hated conviction for its certainty; above all she hated war for its expense. She loved her money as herself, and to these twain she would sacrifice alike the most faithful servant and the most friendly State. She was so mean and dishonest in defrauding66 even such troops as she employed of their due, that no one seems to have dared even to hint to her the expediency67 of keeping a standing army. It may be urged that this was well for the liberties of England, but, on the other hand, it went near to destroy them altogether; and, after all, a standing army did not save either James the Second of England or Louis the Sixteenth of France. The people of England, however, saw more clearly[131] than their tricky68 inconstant Queen, and made good her delinquencies in their own way.
The French had not long evacuated69 Scotland when the desperate condition of the Protestants in France forced the Prince of Condé to offer Elizabeth Havre and Dieppe as pledges for the restoration of the lost Calais, if she would send him money and men. Elizabeth consented; and seven or eight thousand men were despatched to garrison71 these two ports. Five hundred of them, English and Scots, at once volunteered to cut their way into Rouen, which was closely besieged72 by Guise73, and fell at the capture of the town, fighting desperately74 till they were cut down almost to a man. These volunteers should be remembered, for they cleared the ground for the foundation-stone of the British Army, English and Scots fighting side by side for the Protestant cause in a foreign land. The remaining troops were, as was inevitable under the parsimonious75 rule of Elizabeth, ill-equipped and ill-provided, a miserable76 contrast to the armies of the Plantagenets, and a shameful77 example which has been followed only too faithfully since. War between France and England at once broke out in earnest, and the garrison of Havre required reinforcement. No troops of course were ready, and it was necessary to raise recruits in a hurry. The prison doors were opened; the gaols78 were swept clean; robbers, highwaymen, and cut-purses, the sweepings79 of the nation, were driven into the ranks; and a second evil precedent80, companion to the press-gang, was set for the misleading of England the Unready. None the less these poor men fought gallantly82 enough against the besieging83 French, until the plague suddenly broke out among them; and then they went down like flies. Between the 7th and 30th of June the effective strength of the garrison of Havre sank from seven thousand to three thousand men. More men were hurried across the channel to perish with them, but the waste was greater than the repair, and in another fortnight but fifteen hundred of the[132] whole force were left. Further requests for men and arms were met by the despatch70 of raw boys and of all the worn-out ordnance in the Tower—"The worst of everything is thought good enough for this place," wrote the General, Lord Warwick, in the bitterness of his soul—and finally after a grand defence Havre was surrendered.
Nevertheless, little or nothing was done to make good defects in the years that followed. The dishonesty of the officers and the indiscipline of the men in Ireland was past all belief; but it was only with extreme difficulty that Elizabeth was induced to remedy the evil, which brought untold misery84 and oppression upon the forlorn Irish, by the simple process of paying her soldiers their wages. It was not until 1567, when the movements of Philip the Second gave the alarm of invasion, that a corps85 of arquebusiers, four thousand strong, was formed for the defence of the coast towns from Newcastle to Plymouth, and prizes were given for the encouragement of marksmanship with the new weapon. Even so, practice with the bow was still enjoined86 upon the villagers, as though no better arm could be discovered for them.[116]
Then came the rebellion, which but narrowly missed a most serious character, of the Catholic nobility in the North. Disloyalty was widespread in Yorkshire, and it was proverbial that the Yorkshire levies87 would not move without pay; but Elizabeth was too economical to send the train-bands from London to nip the insurrection in the bud, and only at the last moment consented to provide money for the payment of the troops on the spot. The difficulties of the commanders were frightful88. The numbers that came to muster were far short of the true complement89; horsemen were hardly to be obtained by any shift, and the footmen that presented themselves came with bows and bills only, there being but sixty firearms, and not a single pike, among two thousand five hundred infantry90. The[133] rebels, on the other hand, were very well equipped, and had a force of cavalry91 armed after the newest pattern of the Reiters. "If we had but a thousand horse with pistols and lances, five hundred pikes and as many arquebuses," wrote Elizabeth's commanders, "we should soon despatch the matter"; but even so trifling92 a contingent93 as this could not be produced except after infinite difficulty and delay.[117]
For all this Elizabeth was responsible; but the peril was so great that it stirred even her avaricious94 soul. From this year bows and bills began slowly to make way for pikes and firearms; and a manuscript treatise95 in the State Papers shows that the reform was brought under the immediate96 notice of the Royal Council.[118]
An alarm of invasion by the French in the following year led also to a general stirring of the sluggish97 forces of the shire. The French ambassador reported that one hundred and twenty thousand men could take the field in different parts of the country; and the muster-rolls showed the incredible total of close on six hundred thousand men. Yet when we look into these muster-rolls we find simply a list of able-bodied men and of serviceable arms in each shire without attempt at organisation98. In truth, throughout the long reign of Elizabeth we feel that in military matters one effort and one only is at work, namely, in Carlyle's words, to stretch the old formula to cover the new fact, to botch and patch and strain the antiquated99 web woven by the Statute23 of Winchester and newly dyed by the Statute of Philip and Mary to some semblance100 of the pattern given by the armies of France and Spain.
But when we turn from the Queen to the people we perceive the energy of a very different force. The [134]English army indeed was not created by a sovereign or a minister; it created itself in despite of them. The superior equipment of the northern rebels over that of the forces of the Queen was typical of the whole course of English military progress in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The army was conceived in rebellion, born in rebellion, nurtured101 in rebellion. Protestantism all over Europe went hand in hand with rebellion; and Elizabeth, always irresolute102 and incapable of conviction, was distracted between a political preference for Protestantism and a natural abhorrence103 of disloyalty. For years she struggled by the most contemptible104 trickery to be true to both these opposing principles, and for a time, by the help of extraordinary good fortune, she attained105 the success which only a false woman could compass. But long before she could make up her mind, the people had taken matters into their own hands, and thereby107 begun the creation of our present army. It was on May Day 1572, four years later than the first rising of the Low Countries against Spain, that the army took its birth from a review of Londoners before the Queen at Greenwich. In the ranks that day were many captains and soldiers who had served in Scotland, Ireland, and France, and were now adrift without employment on the world. Subscriptions108 were raised by sympathetic Protestants in the city, and three hundred of them were organised into a company and sent to fight for the Dutch under Captain Thomas Morgan. From this beginning we must presently trace the history of the English regiments109 in the Low Countries to the eve of the Civil War; and for the next seventy years therefore our story must flow in two distinct streams—the slender thread that runs through England itself, and the broader flood which glides111 on with ever-increasing volume in the Low Countries, on the Neckar, and even in distant Pomerania. And since at every great national crisis the two streams for a time unite, the lesser112 tributary113 may be dismissed forthwith by a brief review of the[135] progress of the military art in England to the close of the sixteenth century.
London as usual led the van of military improvement. In the year following the departure of Morgan's company, three thousand men of the train-bands were formed into a special corps, which was mustered114 three times a week for exercise, and having been armed with weapons of the newest pattern was regularly drilled by experienced officers on the once famous ground at Mile End. William Shakespeare, it is evident, was one of the spectators that went from time to time to see them, and no doubt laughed his fill at the failings of the recruits. These were sometimes not a little serious. Thus one caliverman left his scouring-stick in the barrel, and accidentally shot it into the side of a comrade, whereof the comrade died; so that the whole body of calivermen gained the enjoyment115 of a military funeral in St. Paul's Churchyard, whither they followed the corpse116 with trailing pikes and solemn countenances117, and at the close of the ceremony fired their pieces over the grave.[119]
Something therefore had at least been learned from the landsknechts, and other changes were coming fast. The old white coat and red cross seems to have disappeared abruptly118 at the beginning of the reign, and coats, or, as they were called, cassocks,[120] generally red or blue, were provided by shires and boroughs119 in their stead. Once, indeed, these bright hues121 are found condemned as too conspicuous122 for active service in Ireland, and some dark or sad colour, such as russet, is recommended in its stead,—a curious anticipation123 of our modern khaki.[121] Again, to turn to smaller changes, the word petty captain had dropped out of use since 1563, to yield place to the title of lieutenant124, and the word ensign seems to have been accepted generally at about the same time. Sergeant125 had been the title of the expert at drill since 1528, but [136]in 1585 there is a distinct order that the men appointed to instruct the bands of the shires shall be called corporals.[122] Two years later we find officers of higher rank asking for a new denomination126, and proposing that they may bear the title of colonel and the officers next below them that of sergeant-major, or, as we now call it, major. It was indeed time, for the word regiment110 came likewise into use at the same period, and a regiment without a colonel is naught127. Before the end of the century the term infantry had also passed into the language, while the flags of the infantry, from their diversity of hues, had gained the name of colours.[123]
But far more striking than these superficial changes is the sudden deluge128 of military pamphlets which burst over England from the year 1587 onwards. The earliest military treatise, so far as I have been able to discover, that was delivered to the English in the vulgar tongue is The Ordering of Souldiours in battelray, by Peter Whitehorn, which was published in 1560. This book produced, no doubt, some effect in its time, but it is of small import compared with those that follow. The earliest written by an Englishman, though not published until four years after his death, was the work of one William Garrard, gentleman, who had served with the King of Spain for fourteen years and died in 1587. It is a remorseless criticism of the existing English military system. The author sweeps away bows and bills in a single contemptuous sentence, and lays it down for a dogma that there are but two weapons, for the tall man the pike and for the little nimble man the arquebus. But in the matter of equipment, he notes that the English are lamentably129 deficient130. As good an arquebus could be made in England as in any country, but the armourers had already learned to make cheap and nasty weapons for common sale to the poor men of the shire. [137]Again, other nations carried their powder in flasks131 or metal cartridges132, but the English actually carried theirs loose in their pockets, ready to be kindled133 by the first spark or spoiled by the first shower, and in any case certain to suffer from waste. Such slovenliness134, says the indignant Garrard, is fit only "for wanton skirmish before ladies"; it is impossible for such arquebusiers to attain106 to the desirable consummation of "a violent, speedy, and thundering discharge." The pikemen, again, instead of a light poniard carried "monstrous135 daggers136 like a cutler's shop," fitter for ornament137 than use. Moreover, the dress of both was open to objection. Colour was a matter of indifference138, though some fine hue120 such as scarlet139 was preferable for the honour of the military profession, but all military garments should be profitable and commodious140, whereas nothing could hamper141 the limbs more than the great bolstered142 and bombasted hose that were then in fashion. I cannot resist the temptation of transcribing143 Garrard's picture of the march of the ideal soldier, and the delicate appeal to the soldier's vanity.
"Let the pikeman march with a good grace, holding up his head gallantly, his face full of gravity and state and such as is fit for his person; and let his body be straight and as much upright as possible; and that which most important is that they have their eyes always upon their companions which are in rank with them and before them, going just one with another, and keeping perfect distance without committing the least error in pace or step. And every pace and motion with one accord and consent they ought to make at one instant of time. And in this sort all the ranks ought to go sometimes softly, sometimes fast, according to the stroke of the drum.... So shall they go just and even with a gallant81 and sumptuous144 pace; for by doing so they shall be esteemed145, honoured and commended of the lookers on, who shall take wonderful delight to behold146 them."
Earlier in appearance though not earlier composed[138] than Garrard's was a shorter work by one Barnaby Rich, which appeared in 1587, and wherein the writer had the courage to condemn59 the practice of emptying the gaols into the ranks; but the great military book of the year was a translation from the French of La Noue, one of the noblest and ablest of the Huguenot commanders. Though written of course for Frenchmen, the soundness of doctrine147 in respect of discipline and equipment and the commendations of the Spanish system were of value to all; while of still greater import to England was the impassioned advocacy of the missile tactics of the Reiters for cavalry. But perhaps most striking of all in the light of later events is the deep note of Puritanism to which every page of the treatise is attuned148. In La Noue's Huguenot regiments there were no cards, no dice149, no swearing, no women, no leaving the colours for plunder150 or even for forage151, but stern discipline at all times and public prayers morning and evening. It is difficult to suppress the conjecture152 that this book had been read and digested by Oliver Cromwell.
The strong opinions expressed in these books of course provoked controversy153. Sir John Smyth, knight154, an officer of some repute, boldly took up the cudgels on the other side, and undertook to prove even in 1591 that the archer35 was more formidable than the arquebusier and the arrow than the bullet, which was an argument only too welcome to old-fashioned insular Englishmen. On the other hand, he enters minutely and intelligently into points of drill and man?uvre, condemns155 the bombasted hose as vehemently156 as Garrard himself, and prescribes a more serviceable dress for the soldier. From him we learn our first knowledge of the manual exercise of the pike, how it should be advanced and how shouldered with comely157 and soldierlike grace, and how men should always step off with the right foot. From him also we obtain sound instruction for the shock attack of cavalry, and some mention of the Hungarian light horsemen, called "ussarons"; and from him finally we gather information of the extraordinary inefficiency[139] even at the close of the reign of the shire-levies of England, of the neglect of the arms and the corruption of the muster-masters.
Roger Williams, whom I have already quoted, also entered the lists at this time with an account of the Spanish organisation, and combated warmly for the superiority of the lance over the pistol as the weapon of cavalry; and a translation by Sir Edward Hoby from the Spanish of Mendoza (1597) also upheld the cause of shock-action. Hard upon these followed a version of the striking work of Martin du Bellay, with its complete scheme for what we now call the short-service system; and in the same year (1598) appeared a dialogue by one Barret, which sought to close the whole controversy. A conservative gentleman who upholds bows and bills is utterly158 demolished159 by a captain who pleads for pike and musket160, would abolish the shire-levies bodily as useless, and would substitute a reorganised force on the favourite model, already once adopted in France, of the Roman legion. But Barret knew his countrymen and expected little. "Such as have followed the wars," he says, "are despised of every man until a very pinch of need doth come"; and military reform then as now could not be pushed forward except under pressure of a scare of war.
So matters drifted on to the close of the sixteenth century and beyond it. The military spirit was abroad, and the military pen busy beyond precedent. The character of the old soldier became a favourite with beggars and vagabonds, and was rewarded so freely at the hands of the charitable that it was necessary to suppress the imposture161 by special statute. Yet in spite of all this simmering and seething162 nothing was done in England for the English army. Soldiers who wished to learn their profession sought service elsewhere than with the Queen; even in Ireland the value of a company sank to fifty pounds;[124] and the most conspicuous type of warrior163 that was to be found at home was the worst.[140] Shakespeare, who saw everything and into the heart of everything, marked these impostors and reproduced them with such genial164 satire165, such incomparable humour, that in our delight in the dramatist we overlook the military historian. Yet he is as truly the painter of the English army in his own day as was Marryat of the navy in later years. Falstaff the fraudulent captain, Pistol the swaggering ensign, Bardolph the rascally166 corporal, Nym the impostor who affects military brevity, Parolles, "the damnable both sides rogue," nay167, even Fluellen, a brave and honest man but a pedant168, soaked in classical affectations and seeking his model for everything in Pompey's camp—all these had their counterparts in every shire of England and were probably to be seen daily on the drill ground at the Mile End. Not in these poor pages but in Shakespeare's must the military student read the history of the Elizabethan soldier.
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