Description
The souldiers catechisme: composed for the parlaments army... [London:] J. Wright, 1644. 8vo, some soiling, notations to endpapers, cropped by binder without loss [ESTC R208219]; [bound with] [Davidson, John] D. Bancrofts rashnes in rayling against the Church of Scotland... Edinburgh: Robert Wal-de-Grave, 1590. 8vo, final leaf torn with loss [ESTC S120565]
Footnote
Note: 'The Souldiers Catechisme' collates: [4], 28 as opposed to: [2], 28, as described by the ESTC. The ESTC lists seven copies of this work only in libraries in the UK. The title-page states 'fifth edition'.
'The Souldiers Catechisme' was written as part of a wider culture of English civil war tracts penned by parliamentarian and royalist army chaplains. Ram was one such parliamentarian army chaplain. The tract poses imaginary questions to a Protestant parliamentarian soldier, who responds: "I fight to recover the King out of the hands of a Popish Malignant Company... I fight for the Lawes and Liberties of my Countrey..."