The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood: Translated from the French by Sir Gilbert Hay, KnightLlull, Ramon
Philosophy
The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood: Translated from the French by Sir Gilbert Hay, Knight
Llull, Ramon
Chivalry
whether arms lent and lost in the field of battle ought to be restored;
whether arms and horses hired and lost in battle ought to be restored;
whether a Knight being robbed in his King's service, he or his King
ought to pursue the robbers; whether a man that goes to the wars
uncharg'd ought to take wages; whether a Knight serving a King
uncharg'd, may lawfully ask wages of him; whether, when the King of
Spain sends assistance to the King of France, he ought to ask wages of
him; whether a man that goes to the wars out of vain glory, ought to
ask wages by the law of Arms; whether a Captain that is robbed obeying
his Lord's commands, his Lord ought to restore him his goods or not;
whether a man going to the wars for covetousness and robbery, ought to
demand wages; whether a Priest or Clergyman may lawfully go to the war
or not, concerning the time that men ought to be paid their wages that
go to the wars; whether a Warriour that obtains leave to divert and
recreat himself for some time, should receive wages for that time;
whether a Knight that has taken wages of a King for a year's service,
and after three months goes to the service of another Prince, ought to
receive wages for the time that he has served; whether a Soldier that
has been paid by a Prince for a year's service, may substitute another
in his place; whether a Captain may send any of his men away, after he
has mustered them in the fields before his Prince; whether a Soldier
falling sick in the wars may lawfully ask his wages for all the time
that he had been sick; how the goods or spoil that is gained by the
army ought to be parted amongst the Soldiers; whether a man may
lawfully keep what he takes from a robber that was designed to rob him
on the highway; of the lawfulness of the war that is made betwixt two
cities that hold of no Sovereign; whether a man may kill a prisoner
that delivers himself voluntarly; whether by the Law of Arms, a man may
take a ransom of gold or money from his prisoner; whether in a war
betwixt England and France, the French may lawfully seize upon the
goods of the English husbandmen, and detain their persons prisoners;
whether one King may overcome another King lawfully by craft and
subtilty; whether it be lawful to fight upon a holyday; whether, when
one man wrongs another, he may lawfully recover his own by war or
force, before he pursues him legally; whether a Knight that dies in
battle, in his Prince's service, is sure of his salvation; whether the
righteous or sinners are the most powerful in battle; why there are so
many wars in the world; whether one that is taken prisoner, and sworn
to keep prison, may lawfully break it, and make his escape, if he finds
occasion; whether one that is taken prisoner, and put in a close dark
room, and makes his escape, may be said to break prison? Whether a man
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