[277] Fleming’s Volkommene Teutsche Soldat, 96.

[278] Benet’s United States Articles of War, 391.

[279] Grose, ii. 199.

[280] See Turner’s Pallas Armata, 349, for these and similar military tortures.

[281] Crichton’s Scandinavia, i. 168.

[282] Grose, ii. 6.

[283] Sir S. Scott’s History of the British Army, ii. 436.

[284] ii. 16. ‘Omnes autem signarii vel signiferi quamvis pedites loricas minores accipiebant, et galeas ad terrorem hostium ursinis pellibus tectas.’

[285] Scott, ii. 9.

[286] Scott, i. 311.