Muster Master

(Exodus 13: 18) On the approach of an enemy a conscription was made from the general body, under the direction of a muster-master, (20: 5; 2 Kings 25: 19) by whom also the officers were appointed. ❋ Unknown (1884)

Charles, according to his muster-master, had 5000; of horse he had but a handful. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

The picture painted however by muster-master Digger of the plumed troops that had thus come forth to maintain the honour of England and the cause of liberty, was anything but imposing. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)

They were appointed two years past to have been trained six days by the year or more, at the discretion of the muster-master, but, as yet, they have not been trained one day, so that they have benefited nothing, nor yet know their leaders. ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)

The rolls of the muster-master exhibit curious instances of this long struggle: there are several now before the writer, in which punishments succeed each other with a frequency so terrible, that the mind is only relieved by the belief that sensibility is destroyed by incurable misery. ❋ John West (1840)

Where is the scribe or muster-master of the Assyrian army? ❋ Unknown (1721)

The prophet tells us, First, That the army would hereby be reduced to a very small number: The rest of the trees of his forest shall be few; very few shall escape the sword of the destroying angel, so few that there needs no artist, no muster-master or secretary of war, to take an account of them, for even a child may soon reckon the numbers of them, and write the names of them. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Tyrannius Priseus, the muster-master of the army, and a great number of the officers of the horse, had been corrupted by Florus, and diverted him from that his attempt; and that was the occasion that this war lasted so very long, and thereby the Jews were involved in such incurable calamities. ❋ Flavius Josephus (1709)

In order to exercise the militia, and to keep them in good order, each county, by an edict of the council, was assessed in a certain sum, for maintaining a muster-master, appointed for that service. [ ❋ David Hume (1743)