Bland - A Treatise of Military Disipline 1727

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GEORGE R., EO RGE, by the Grace of God, King of Great ) Britain, France and Irelaad, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all towhom thefe Prefents fhalt come, Greeting. Whereas Our Trufty and Well- YE} beloved Samuel Buckley, Citizen and Stationer of Our City of London, has humbly reprefented unto Us, that heis now printing a Book written by Our Trufty and Well-beloved Humphrey Bland, Efq; Lieutenant-Golonel of Our own Regiment of Horfe, Intitled, A Treatife of Mi- litary Difcipline ; in which is laid down and explain'd the Duty of the Officer and Soldier, thro the feveral Branches of the Service: And whereas the faid Samuel Buckley has informed Us, that he has been at a great Expence in carrying on the faid Work, and that the fole Right and Title of the Copy of the faid Book is vefted in the faid Samuel Buckley; he bas there- fore humbly befought Us to grant him Our Royal Privilege and Licenfe for the fole Printing and Publifhing thereof, for the Term of Fourteen Years: We, being willing to give En- couragement to fo ufefula Work, are pleafed to condefcend to his Requeft, and do therefore hereby, fo far as may be agreeable to the Statute in that Behalf made and provided, grant unto the faid Samuel Buckley our Royal Licenfe for the fole Printing and Publifhing the faid Book, for and during the Term of Fourteen Years, to be computed trom the Day of the Date hereof, ftri€tly prohibiting all Our Sub- jeéts within Our Kingdoms and Dominions to reprint or abridge the fame, cither in the like or in any other Volume or Volumes whatfoever ; or to import, buy, vend, utter or diftribute any Copies of the fame, or any Part thereof, re~ Rrlnted beyond the Seas, within the faid Term of Fourteen ears, without the Confent and Approbation of the faid Samuel Buckley, his Heirs, Executors, and Affigns, by Wri- ting under his‘or their Hands and Seals firft had and obtain- ed, as they and every of them offending herein will anfwer the contrary at their Perils. Whereof the Mafter, Wardens, and Company of Stationers of Our City of London, Com- miffioners and other Officers of Our Cuffoms, and all other Our Officers and Minifters whom it may concern, are to take Notice, that due Obedience be given to Our Pleafure herein fignified. Given at Our Court at St. Fames’s the twenty fourth ay Of April 1727, in the Thirteenth Year of Our Reign. By his Majefty's Command, Hoires NEWCASTLE. A TREATISE OF Military Difcipline ; The Duty of the Officer and Soldier, Thro’ the feveral Branches of the Service. By HUMPHRET BLAND, Efq Lieutenant-Colonel of His M ayeEsT ¥’s Own Regiment of Horfe. The Seconvd Eprrrown. Ta omni Prelio zon tam Multitudo & Virtus izdodta, quam Ars &@ Exercitinm foleat praftare Vidtoriam. Vegetius, Lib. 1. LONDON, Printed for Sam. Buckley; And Sold by Fames and Yoh Kuapton, Rob. Knaplock, Dan. Midwiater, William and “Fobr Inays, and Ranew Robinfon, in St. Paul's Charch- Yard; and Fohu Osborn and Thomas Longman in Pater-Nofter- Row, MQCCXXVIL wore

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