So much for the various branches of the military service: it remains to say a few words of the Army as a whole. Of the organisation of what would now be called the War Department, it is extremely difficult to speak. There was a parliamentary Committee of the Army, which seems to have enjoyed at first an intermittent and later a continuous existence, and which was entrusted with the general direction of its affairs and in particular with the business of recruiting. There were also Treasurers at War, who were charged with the financial administration, and there was the already venerable Office of Ordnance, which was responsible for arms and equipment. Speaking generally, though the functions of the Committee and of the treasurers seemed to have overlapped each other at various points, the military administration seems to have tended to the following allocation of responsibility: that the Committee of the Army took charge of the men, the Office of Ordnance of the weapons and stores, and the Treasurers at War of the finance, while the Commander-in-Chief was answerable for the discipline of the Army. Passing next to purely military organisation, which of course fell within the province of the Lord-General, it is to be remarked that the makers and commanders of the New Model knew of no better distribution of command than under the three heads of Infantry, Cavalry, and Train. There was no such thing as a division comprehending a proportion of all three arms under the control of a divisional commander; and though we do hear frequently of brigades, the word signifies merely the temporary grouping of certain corps under a single officer, rarely an essential part of the general organisation. The subjoined list gives a tolerable idea of the allotment of functions among the members of the staff. It is only necessary to add that all orders of the commander-in-chief were issued through the sergeant-major-general, distributed by him to the sergeant-majors or, as they are now called, majors of the different regiments, and by the sergeant-majors in their turn to the sergeants of every company and the corporals of every troop. COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, Knight, Captain-General. HEADQUARTER STAFF. (_Chief of the Staff_)--Major-General[172] Skippon. _Commissary-General of the Musters._--Comm.-Gen. Stone (with two deputies). _Commissary-General of Victuals._--Comm.-Gen. Orpin. _Commissary-General of Horse Provisions._--Comm.-Gen. Cooke. (_Transport_) _Waggon-Master-General._--Master Richardson. (_Intelligence_) _Scout-Master-General._--Major Watson. (_Military Chest_) Eight Treasurers at War (civilians), (with one deputy). _Judge Advocate-General._--John Mills (civilian). (_Medical_) _Physicians to the Army._--Doctors Payne and Strawhill. " _Apothecary to the Army._--Master Web. " _Chaplain to the Army._--Master Boles.