1787-11-13 (static/transcriptions/1787/11/280.jpg)

ever since long campaigns became common in the world, some kind of military justice has been exercised by officers over their men when in camp or in actual service.
“Legibus antiqus castrorum & more Camill[ILL] Servato, miles ne vallum litiget extra, Eh procul a signis. Justissima Centurionum Cognito est igities de milite – Juv: 16 Sat: 15.
This authority, during the feudal ages, seems to have been exercised in out armies when employed in actual services by the High Constable and Marshal of England, if present, who also were and still are Judges of the Court of Chivalry within the realm, but in their absence, by the Marshal of the King’s Army, of whose power to punish soldiers for military offences in camp, some curious [ILL] may be seen in [ILL]
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