laws AND Orders of War, established for the good conduct of the service in Jreland.  
ROBERT Earl of Essex and Ewe, Earl Martial of England, Viscount Hereforde and Bourgcher, Lord Ferrer of Chartley, L. Bourgcher and Lovayn, and her majesties Lieutenant and Governor general of the kingdom of Ireland, To all Officers of the Army, and all Colonels, Captains, Officers and Soldiers of Companies, and all her majesties Subjects and others, whom these Laws and Orders ensuing respectively and severally shall concern.  
FOrasmuch as no good service can be performed, or war well managed where Military discipline is not observed; And Military discipline cannot be kept where the Rules or chief parts thereof be not certainly set down and generally known: I have with the advise of the Counsel of War set down these Laws and Orders following, and do now publish them under my hand, that all persons in this Army or Kingdom within my charge, may take knowledge of the said Laws, and the penalties set down for the breakers of them.  
First, Since we own our highest duty and greatest allegiance to him from whom all power and authority flows as from the first fountain, and must receive our successes of him that is Lord of Hosts: I do straightly charge and command all Commanders and officers of the Army to see that Almighty GOD be duly served, that Sermons, Morning and Evening prayer be diligently frequented, and that those that do often and wilfully absent themselves, be duly punished.  
2 Let no man speak impiously and maliciously against the holy and blessed TRINITY, or any of the three persons, that is to say, God the Father, God the Son, and God the holy Ghost, or against the known Articles of the Christian faith, upon pain of death.  
3 Let no man blaspheme Gods holy Name, or use unlawful oaths or execrations, or commit any irreligious act to the derogation of God's honour, upon pain of loss of his pay, imprisonment, and such further punishment as a Marshal Court shall think his offence deserves.  
4 No man shall use any traitorous words against her majesties person or Royal authority upon pain of death.  
5 No man whether he be Soldier or other, English or Irish, shall have conference or intelligence with any enemy or Rebel, that is in open action against her Majesty, or harbour or receive any such within the Camp, or any Town, Fort, castle, or Garrison, or shall send or procure to be sent any victual, munition or other relief to any enemy or Rebel in action, upon pain of death: Except, such as shallbe avowed and warranted by me (or those that shall command the Army in mine absence) to speak, confer, or have intelligence, or commerce with the enemy or Rebels.  
6 No man shall run to the enemy or Rebel that is in action, or departed the Army without licence upon pain of death.  
7 No man shall commit any murder, or kill any person or draw blood of any, or draw any sword in private quarrel, with intent to offer violence within the Camp or Garrison, upon pain of death.  
8 No man shall ravish or force any woman, upon pain of death. And adulteries or fornications shallbe punished by imprisonment, banishment from the Army, or such other penalty as by the Marshal's Court shallbe thought meet.  
9 No man shall steal or take by force any treasure, victual or munition of her Majesties, or take by force, or steal from any person, any money, arms, apparel, or other goods being above the value of 12. pence, upon pain of death.  
10 No man shall deliver up any Town, castle, Fort or Sconce without warrant, or departed from any Straight or passage which he is commanded to make good, or take Passport of the Enemy or any Rebel in action, for any Troops, or make any ignominious composition with the Enemy or Rebel in action, upon pain of death.  
11 No man shall throw away his arms, or abandon his Ensign, Cornet, or Gwidon, or fly away in any Battle or Skirmish, upon pain of death.  
12 No man being set Sentinel shall sleep, or appointed by the Officer of the Guard, or any superior Officer that hath authority to place him, shall departed and forsake that place without warrant, upon pain of death.  
13 No man shall offer any violence, or contemptuously disobey his Commander, or do any act, or speak any words which are like to breed any mutiny in the Army, or impeach the obeying of the Generals or principal Officers directions upon pain of death.  
14 No man shall outrage, or do violence to any that comes to bring victual to the Army upon pain of death.  
15 No man that carries Arms or pretends to be a Soldier, shall remain three days in the Army after it is on foot, except he be enrolled in some Company, upon pain of death.  
16 No Soldier of the Army shall do violence to the person, or steal, or violently take, or wilfully spoil the goods of any Irish good subject, upon pain of death.  
17 No Soldier shall burn any house, or lodging, or burn or wilfully spoil any Corn, Ship, or Boat, or Carriage, or other thing that may serve for the provision of the Army, without he be commanded so to do by the General, or some principal Officer of the Army, upon pain of death.  
18 No man shall departed a mile out of the Army or Camp, except he be commanded, or lawfully warranted so to do, upon pain of death.  
19 No Soldier shall break his order to follow any rout or chase, or to seek any prey or spoil, except he be commanded by such as have authority, nor further than he is commanded, upon pain of death.  
20 No man that hath passport for any limited time, shall exceed the time limited for his absence, except he can prove he was stayed by the hand of God, upon pain of death.  
21 No Provider, Keeper, or Officer of her majesties victuals or munitions, shall embesell any part thereof, or give any false account to the General, with a purpose to deceive her Majesty, or to hinder the service upon pain of death.  
22 No man shall wilfully or through gross negligence fail of coming to the Rendezvous assigned to him by the General, or other principal Officer, that shall command the Army upon pain of death.  
23 No Soldier in musters shall answer for an other, or take two pays, or muster in a false name, to defraud her Majesty upon pain of death.  
24 No Captain shall through corruption, wilfulness or gross negligence, suffer his Company to grow weak, or practise to defraud her Majesty in his muster, upon pain of imprisonment, loss of his place, and ignominious banishment from the Army.  
25 No Captain of the Army, or Officer shall give passport to any, or dismiss any Soldier once enrolled, without warrant from the General, or other Officer whom he shall authorize, upon pain of loss of his place and imprisonment.  
26 No Soldier shall departed from his Captain, or servant from his Master, without his licence, though he serve still in the Army, upon pain of a months imprisonment, and loss of a months wages.  
27 No Soldier shall play away, give away, pawn or sell away his Arms, without he be dismissed and have leave of his Captain so to do, upon pain of imprisonment.  
28 All Captains shall be diligent in training their Companies, and shall be careful in governing them well, and in providing for them, and also shall see in all Services that they do the duties of Soldiers, as they will hope for favour and advancement, or escape ignominious displacing from their charges.  
29 All Captains or other Officers, that for the time shall have Command of Companies, shall see their Companies do orderly Quarter as they are appointed, and to entrench or fortify as much of the Quarter as they are appointed, and as they are commanded, upon pain of loss of their places.  
30 No man shall spoil or take the goods of any man that dieth or is killed in Service, upon pain of restoring the double value: But the goods of such as die in the Army, if they make any Will by Writing or Word, shall be disposed according to the Will, if they make no Will, it shall be distributed to the hurt, sick, and poor of the Company whereof the Soldier was, or shall go to the Hospital of the Army.  
31 No man shall enter or go out of the Army, but by ordinary ways, upon pain of imprisonment.  
32 No man shall give any disgraceful words, or commit any act to the disgrace of any person in this Army, or any part thereof, upon pain of imprisonment, public disarming, and banishment from the Army, as men for ever disabled to carry Arms. And as I forbidden all men under my rule to renew any old quarrels, or to begin any new, so I do acquit and discharge all men that shall have quarrel offered to them, or challenges made to them of any disgrace, or opinion of any disadvantage, since they do but do the duties of Soldiers which ought to subject themselves to Martial discipline, and they that provoke them shallbe proceeded withal as breakers of all good Discipline, and enemies to the good successes of the Service.  
33 And because drunkenness is the mother of many other vices and disorders in Armies, every Soldier or Officer that shall be found drunk, shall be committed to prison for the first offence: And if he fall into it the second time, being a private Soldier, he shall beside his imprisonment forfeit two months pay: if he be an Officer, he shall lose his place: The third time shall have such far greater punishment as a Marshal's Court shall set down.  
34 Every private man and Soldier upon pain of imprisonment, shall keep silence when the Army is to take lodging, or when it is marching or embattling, so as the Officers may be heard, and the commandments executed.  
35 No Soldier serving on Foot, shall carry any Boy, nor no Woman shall be suffered to follow the Army.  
36 All Captains, Officers and Soldiers shall do their endeavours to detect, apprehend and bring to punishment all offenders, and shall assist the Officers of the Army for that purpose, as they will answer their slackness, and be censured at a Marshals Court.  
37 All other faults, disorders and offences that are not mentioned in these Articles shallbe punished according to the general Customs and Laws of Wars, and therefore I command all men to look to their charge: and him that hath no charge to look to his own carriage, and to keep himself within bands of duty: for the discipline of War shall be strictly kept, and the Laws thereof severely executed.