Quarto. 16pp. Modern blind-ruled tree-calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, T.E.G. Marbled endpapers, trimmed, occasionally affecting pagination and signature. Recently dispersed from the Cottlesloe Military Library 'probably the most extensive private collection of early printed books focused on military matters', with the bookplate of Thomas Francis Fremantle, 3rd Lord Cottesloe (1862-1965) to FEP.

The sole edition of the articles of conduct for the army of 16,000 men raised by the Covenanters and commanded by Alexander Leslie, first Earl of Leven (c. 1580-1661) at the outset of the First Bishops' Wars.

The articles, besides the expected regulations regarding behaviour towards superior officers and prohibitions concerning desertion, reflect the religious reformation championed by the Covenanter authorities. The ecclesiastical social order of the army was structured to mirror the hierarchy of the Church. A 'Kirke Session' applied to each regiment in order to censure 'profainers of the sabbath, swearers and drunkards, especially such as shall be found drinking in time of prayers of divine service'. Infantrymen were expected to remain celibate whilst in service, prostitutes were forbidden in camp, and those found to have committed rape were to be executed.