to bee ordeined I beleue that you remember of what nomber of menne of what heddes it is made and of what armours thei are armed The better waie for the ordring of a band of men in battaile raâ—e after the first facion then the facion that this battaile ought to haue is as I haue saied of twentie rankes twentie men to a ranke fiue rankes of Pikes in the front and fiftene rankes of Targaettes on the backe twoo Centurions standyng in the fronte twoo behinde on the backe who shall execute the office of those whiche the antiquitie called Tergiductori The Conestable with the Ansigne and with the Drumme shall stande in thesame space that is betwene the fiue rankes of the Pikes and the fiftene of the Targaettes Of the Peticapitaines there shall stande one vpon euery side of the ranckes so that euery one maie haue on his side his men those peticapitaines whiche shal be on the left hande to haue their men on the right hand those Peticapitaines whiche shall be on the right hand to haue their menne on the left hande The fiftie Veliti muste stande a long the flankes and on the backe of the battaile To mynde now that this battaile maie be set together in this facion the men goyng ordinarily it is conuenient to order them thus Make the men to be brought into .lxxx. rankes fiue to a ranke as a little afore we haue said leauyng the Veliti either at the hedde or at the taile so that thei stande out of this order and it ought to be ordeined that euery CeÌ„turion haue behinde his back twentie rankes and to bee nexte behinde euery Centurion fiue rankes of Pikes and the reste Targaettes The Conestable shall stande with the Drum and the Ansigne in thesame space whiche is betwene the Pikes and the Targaettes of the seconde Centurion and to occupie the places of three Targaette men Of the Peticapitaines twentie shall stand on the sides of the rankes of the first Centurion on the lefte hande and twentie shall stande on the sides of the rankes of the last Centurion on the right hande And you muste vnderstande that the Peticapitaine whiche hath to leade the Pikes ought to haue a Pike and those that leade the Targaettes ought to haue like weapons Then the rankes beyng brought into this order and mindyng in marchyng to bryng theÌ„ into battaile for to make the hedde the first Centurion must be caused to stande still with the firste twentie rankes and the seconde to proceade marchyng and tournyng on the right hand he must go a long the sides of the twentie rankes that stande still till he come to bee euen with the other Centurion where he must also stande still and the thirde Centurion to procede marchyng likewise tournyng on the right hand â–ª and a long the sides of the rankes that stande still must go so farre that he be euen with the other twoo Centurions and he also standyng still the other Centurion must folowe with his rankes likewise tournyng on the right hande a longe the sides of the rankes that stande still so farre that be come to the hed of the other and then to stand still and straight waie twoo Centurions onely shall depart from the front and go to the backe of the battaile the whiche cometh to bee made in thesame maner and with thesame order iuste as a little afore I haue shewed you The Veliti muste stande along by the flankes of thesame accordyng as is disposed in the â—â—râ— waie whiche waie is called redoublyng by right line this is called redoublyng by flanke the first waie is more easie this is with better order and commeth better to passe and you maie better correcte it after your owne maner for that in redoublyng by righte line you muste bee ruled by the nomber bicause fiue maketh ten ten twentie tweÌ„tie fourtie so that with redoublyng by right line you cannot make a hedde of fiftene nor of fiue and twentie nor of thirtie nor of fiue and thirtie but you must go where thesame nomber will leade you And yet it happeneth euery daie in particulare affaires that it is conuenient to make the forwarde with sixe hundred or eight hundred men so that to redouble by right line should disorder you therefore this liketh me better that difficultie that is ought moste with practise with exercise to bee made easie Therefore I saie vnto you how it importeth more then any thyng to haue the souldiours to know how to set themselues in araie quickly and it is necessarie to keepe theim in this battaile to exercise theim therin and to make them to go apace either forward or backward to passe through difficulte places without troublyng thorder for asmoche as the souldiours whiche can doe this well be expect souldiours and although thei haue neuer seen enemies in the face thei maie be called old souldiours and contrariwise those whiche cannot keepe these orders though thei haue been in a thousande warres thei ought alwaies to be reputed new souldiours This is concernyng setting them together when thei are marching in small rankes but beyng set and after beyng broken by some accident or chaunce whiche groweth either of the situacion or of the enemie to make that in a sodaine thei maie come into order againe this is the importaunce and the difficultie and where is nedefull moche exercise and moche practise and wherin the antiquitie bestowed moche studie Therefore it is necessarie to doe twoo thynges firste to haue this battaile full of countersignes the other to keepe alwaies this order how to exercyse men to take soche order wherby a band of meÌ„ that wer by what soeuer chaÌ„ce disordred maye straighte wai be bâ—ought into order againe that those same men maie stand alwaies in the ranke which thei were firste placed in as for insample if one haue begon to stande in the seconde that he stande after alwaie in that and not onely in that self same rancke but in that self same place for the obseruyng whereof as I haue saied bee necessarie many countersignes In especially it is requisite that the Ansigne bee after soche sorte countersigned that companyng with the other battailes it maie be knowen from theim accordyng as the Conestable and the Centurions haue plumes of fethers in their heddes differente and easie to be knowen and that whiche importeth moste is to ordaine that the peticapitaines hee knowen Wherevnto the antiquitie had so moche care that thei would haue nothing els written in their hedde peces but the nomber that thei were named by callyng them firste seconde thirde and fourthe c. And yet thei were not coÌ„tented with this but made euery souldiour to haue written in his Targaet the nomber of the ranke and the nomber of the place in whiche ranke he was appoincted Then the menne being countersigned thus and vsed to stande betwene these limites it is an easie thyng thei beyng disordered to fettt theim all againe quickly into order
to tourne backwarde or whiche waie to tourne the weapons and the face so that knowyng how to kepe well the araie after soche sorte that neither place nor mouyng maie disorder them vnderstandyng well the commaundementes of their heddes by meanes of the sounde and knowyng quickly how to retourne into their place these battailes maie after easly as I haue said beyng brought many together learne to do that whiche all the body together with the other battailes in a iuste armie is bounde to dooe And bicause soche vniuersall practise is also not to bee estemed a little ones or twise a yere when there is peace all the main battaile maie be brought together to giue it the facioÌ„ of an whole armie some daies exercisyng theim as though thei should faight a fielde settyng the fronte and the sides with their succours in their places And bicause a capitaine ordeineth his hoste to the fielde either for coumpte of the enemie he seeth or for that of whiche without seyng he doubteth he ought to exercise his armie in the one maner and in the other and to instructe theim in soche sorte How a captain muste instâ—â—â—â— his souldiours how thei ought to gouerne theÌ„ selues in 〈◊〉 battaile that thei maie knowe how to marche to faight wheÌ„ nede should require shewyng to his souldiours how thei should gouerne theim selues when thei should happen to be assaulted of this or of that side and where he ought to instructe theim how to faight againste the enemie whom thei should see he must shewe them also how the faight is begun where thei ought to retire being ouerthrowen who hath to succeade in their places to what signes to what soundes to what voices thei ought to obeie and to practise theÌ„ in soche wise in the battaile and with fained assaultes that thei may desire the verie thyng in deede For that an armie is not made coragious bicause in thesame be hardie menne but by reason the orders thereof bee well appoincted For as moche as if I be one of the first faighters do knowe beyng ouercome where I maie retire and who hath to succeade in my place I shall alwaies faight with boldnes seing my succour at hand If I shall be one of the seconde faighters the first being driuen backe and ouerthrowen I shall not bee afraied for that I shall haue presuposed that I maie bee and I shall haue desire to be thesame whiche maie giue the victory to my maister and not to bee any of the other These exercises bee moste necessarie where an armie is made of newe and where the old armie is thei bee also necessarie â–ª for that it is also seen how the Romaines knew from their infancie thorder of their armies notwithstandyng those capitaines before thei should come to thenemie continually did exercise them in those And Iosephus in his historie saieth that the coÌ„tinuall exercises of the Romaine armies made that all thesame multitude whiche folowe the campe for gain was in the daie of battaile profitable bicause thei all knewe how to stande in the orders and to faight kepyng the same but in the armies of newe men whether thou haue putte theim together to faight straight waie or that thou make a power to faight when neede requires without these exercises as well of the battailes seuerally by themselues as of all the armie is made nothing wherefore the orders beyng necessarie it is conueniente with double industrie and laboure to shewe them vnto soche as knoweth theÌ„ not and for to teache it many excellent capitaines haue trauailed without any respecte Cosimo My thinkes that this reasoning hath sumwhat transported you for asmoche as hauyng not yet declared the waies with the whiche the battailes bee exercised you haue reasoned of the whole armie and of the daie of battaile Fabricio You saie truth but surely thoccasion hath been the affection whiche I beare to these orders and the grief that I feele seyng thei be not put in vre notwithstanding doubt not but that I will tourne to the purpose as I haue saied The chiâ—f importance in the exercisyng of bandes of mâ—n the chief importaunce that is in thexercise of the battailes is to knowe how to kepe well the arraies and bicause I tolde you that one of these battailes ought to bee made of fower hundred men heauie armed I wil staie my self vpon this nomber Thei ought then to be brought into .lxxx. rankes and fiue to a ranke afterward goyng fast or softly to knit them together and to lose them the whiche how it is dooen maie bee shewed better with deedes then with wordes Which nedeth not gretly to be taught for that euery manne whom is practised in seruise of warre knoweth how this order procedeth whiche is good for no other then to vse the souldiours to keepe the raie but let vs come to putte together one of these battailes I saie Three principall facions for thorderyng of menne into battaile â—aâ—e that there is giuen them three facioÌ„s principally the firste and the moste profitablest is to make al massiue to giue it the facion of two squares the second is to make it square with the front horned the thirde is to make it with a voide space in the middest the maner to put men together in the first facion maie be of twoo sortes th one is to double the rankes The maner how to bryng a hande of mâ—n into battaâ—lâ—â—eâ—e afte◠〈◊〉 square fâ—câ—â—â—â— that is to make the seconde ranke enter into the first the .iiij. into the third the sixt into the fift so foorth so that where there was .lxxx. rankes fiue â—o a ranke thei maie become .xl. rankes .x. to a ranke Afterward cause theim to double ones more in thesame maner settyng the one ranke into an other and so there shall remain twentie rankes twentie men to a ranke this maketh twoo squares aboute for as moche as albeit that there bee as many men the one waie as in the other notwithstandyng towardes the hedde thei ioine together that the one side toucheth the other but by the other waie thei be distant the one from the other at least a yarde and a haulfe after soche sorte that the square is moche longer from the backe to the fronte then from the one side to thother and bicause we haue at this presente to speake often of the partes afore of behinde and of the sides of these battailes and of all the armie together knowe you that when I saie either hedde or fronte I meane the parte afore when I shall saie backe the part behind when I shall saie flaÌ„kes the partes on the sides The fiftie ordinarie veliti of the battaile muste not mingle with the other rankes but so sone as the battaile is facioned thei shal be set a long by the flankes therof The other waie to set together the battaile is this and bicause it is better then the firste I will set it before your iyes iuste how it ought
considering that the Ansigne standyng still the Centurions and the Peticapitaines maie gesse their places by the iye and beyng brought the left of the left the right of the right with their accustomed distance the souldiours led by their rule and by the differences of the cognisances maie be quickly in their proper places no otherwise then as if the boordes of a tunne should bee taken a sunder whiche beyng first marked moste easely maie bee set together again where thesame beyng not countersigned were impossible to bryng into order any more These thynges with diligence and with exercise are quickely taught and quickly learned and beyng learned with difficultie are forgotten for that the newe menne be led of the olde and with tyme a Prouince with these exercises may become throughly practised in the war It is also necessarie to teache theim to tourne theim selues all at ones and when neede requires to make of the flankes and of the backe the fronte and of the front flankes or backe whiche is moste easie bicause it suffiseth that euery manne doe tourne his bodie towardes thesame parte that he is commaunded and where thei tourne their faces there the fronte commeth to bee True it is that when thei tourne to any of the flanckes the orders tourne out of their proporcion for that from the breast to the backe there is little difference and from the one flancke to the other there is verie moche distance the whiche is al contrarie to the ordinarie order of the battaile therefore it is conuenient that practise and discrecion doe place theÌ„ as thei ought to be but this is small disorder for that moste easely by themselues thei maie remedie it But that whiche importeth more and where is requisite more practise is when a battaile would tourne all at ones as though it were a whole bodie here is meete to haue greate practise and greate discrecion bicause mindyng to tourne What aduertisement ought to bee vsed in tourning about a whole bande of menne after soche sorte as though it were but one bodie as for insample on the left hande the left corner must stande still and those that be next to hym that standeth still muste marche so softly that thei that bee in the right corner nede not to runne otherwise all thing should be confounded But bicause it happeneth alwaies when an armie marcheth from place to place that the battailes whiche are not placed in the front shall be driuen to faight not by hedde but either by flanckâ— or by backe so that a battaile muste in a sâ—daine make of flancke or of backe hedde and mindyng that like battailes in soche race maie haue their Proporcion as aboue is declared it is necessarie that thei haue the Pikes on thesame flancke that ought to be hâ—dde and the Peâ—icapitaines Centurions and Conestables to resorte accordyngly to their places Therefore to mynde to dooe this How to oâ—â—er a band oâ—â—â—nne after socâ—◠〈◊〉 that 〈…〉 make the◠〈◊〉 against◠〈…〉 of whiche flanke theâ—â—â—st in plasyng them together you must ordeine the fowerskore rankes of fine in a ranke thus Set all the Pikes in the first twentie rankes and place the Peticapitaines thereof fiue in the first places and fiue in the last the other three score rankes whiche come after bee all of Targaettes whiche come to bee three Centuries Therefore the first and the laste ranke of euery CenturioÌ„ would be Peticapitaines the Conestable with the Ansigne and with the Drumme muste stande in the middest of the first Centurie of Targaettes the Centurions in the hed of euery Centurie The bande thus ordained when you would haue the Pikes to come on the left flancke you must redouble Centurie by Centurie on the right flancke if you would haue them to come on the right flancke you must redouble theim on the lefte And so this battaile tourneth with the Pikes vpon a flancke and the Conestable in the middeste the whiche facion it hath marchyng but the enemie commyng and the tyme that it would make of flancke hedde it nedeth not but to make euery mâ—n to tourne his face towardes thesame flancke where the Pikes be and then the battaile tourneth with the rankes and with the heddes in thesame maner as is aforesaied for that euery man is in his place excepte the Centurions and the Centurions straight waie and without difficultie place themselues How a band of men oughte to be orderâ—â— wheÌ„ in marchyng thei should bee constrained to faight on their backes But when thei in marchyng should bee driuen to faight on the backe it is conuenient to ordein the rankes after soch sorte that settyng theim in battaile the Pikes maie come behinde and to doe this there is to bee kepte no other order then where in orderyng the battaile by the ordinarie euery Centurie hath fiue rankes of Pikes before to cause that thei maie haue them behind and in all the other partes to obserue thorder whiche I declared firste Cosimo You haue tolde if I dooe well remember me that this maner of exercise is to bee able to bryng these battailes together into an armie and that this practise serueth to be able to order theim selues in the same But if it should happen that these CCCCL men should haue to doe an acte seperate how would you order them Fabricio He that leadeth them ought then to iudge where he will place the Pikes and there to put them the whiche doeth not repugne in any part to the order aboue written for that also though thesame bee the maner that is obserued to faighte a fielde together with thother battailes notwithstandyng it is a rule whiche serueth to all those waies wherein a band of menne should happen to haue to doe but in shewyng you the other twoo waies of me propounded of ordering the battailes â–ª I shal also satisfie you more to your question for that either thei are neuer vsed or thei are vsed when a battaile is a lone and not in companie of other and to come to the waie of ordering them with twoo hornes How a battaile to made with twoo hornes I saie that thou oughteste to order the lxxx rankes fiue to a ranke in this maner Place in the middest one Centurion and after hym .xxv. rankes whiche muste bee with twoo Pikes on the lefte hande and with three Targaettes on the right and after the first fiue there must be put in the twentie folowyng twentie Peticapitaines all betwene the pikes and the Targaettes excepte those whiche beare the Pike whoÌ„ maie stand with the Pikes after these xxv raÌ„kes thus ordered there is to be placed an other Centurion and behinde hym fiftene rankes of Targaettes after these the Conestable betwene the DruÌ„ and the Ansigne who also must haue after him other fiftene rankes of Targaettes after this the thirde Centurion must be placed and behinde hym xxv raÌ„kes in euery one of whiche ought to bee three Targaettes on the lefte flancke and twoo Pikes on the
right and after the fiue first rankes there must be .xx. Peticapitaines placed betwene the Pikes and the Targaettes after these rankes the towerth Centurion must folowe Intendyng therefore of these rankes thus ordered to make a battaile with twoo hornes the first Centurion must stand still with the .xxv rankes whiche be behinde him after the second Centurion muste moue with the fiftene rankes of Targaettes that bee behinde hym and to tourne on the right hande and vp by the right flancke of the .xxv. rankes to go so farre that he arriue to the .xv. ranke and there to stande still after the Conestable muste moue with the fiftene rankes of Targaettes whiche be behinde hym and tournyng likewise on the right hande vp by the right flancke of the fiftene rankes that wer firste moued muste marche so farre that he come to their heddes and there to stand stil after the thirde Centurion muste moue with the xxv rankes and with the fowerth Centurion whiche was behinde and turnyng vp straight must go a long by the right flanck of the fiftene last rankes of the Targaettes and not to stande still when he is at the heddes of them but to followe marchyng so farre that the laste ranke of the .xxv. maie come to be euen with the rankes behinde And this dooen the Centurion whiche was bedde of the firste fiftene rankes of Targaettes must go awaie from thens where he stoode and go to the backe in the lefte corner and thus a battaile shall be made of .xxv. rankes after twentie men to a rank with two hornes vpoÌ„ euery side of the froÌ„t one horn and euery one shall haue ten rankes fiue to a ranke and there shall remain a space betwene the twoo hornes as moche as containeth ten men whiche tourne their sides the one to thother Betwene the two hornes the capitain shall stande and on euery poinct of a horne a Centurion There shall bee also behinde on euery corner a Centurion there shal be twoo rankes of Pikes and .xx. Peticapitaines on euery flancke These twoo hornes serue to kepe betwene theim the artillerie when this battaile should haue any with it and the cariages The Veliti muste stande along the flankes Tâ—e orderyng 〈…〉 battaile 〈◊〉 a voide spâ—â—â— in the middestâ— vnder the Pikes But mindyng to bring this horned battaile with a voide space in the middeste there ought no other to bee doen then of fiftene rankes of twentie to a ranke to take eight rankes and to place them on the poinctes of the twoo hornes whiche then of hornes become backe of the voide space In this place the cariages are kept the capitain standeth and the Ansigne but neuer the Artillerie the whiche is placed either in the front or a long the flankes These be the waies that a battaile maie vse wheÌ„ it is constrained to passe alone through suspected places notwithstandyng the massiue battaile without hornes and without any soche voide place is better yet purposyng to assure the disarmed thesame horned battaile is necessarie The Suizzers make also many facions of battailes emong which thei make one like vnto a crosse bicause in the spaces that is betwen the armes therof thei kepe safe their Harkebuters from the daunger of the enemies but bicause soche battailes be good to faight by theim selues and my intente is to shew how many battailes vnited do faight with thenemie I wil not labour further in describing theÌ„ Cosimo My thinkes I haue verie well comprehended the waie that ought to be kept to exercise the meÌ„ in these battailes But if I remember me well you haue saied how that besides the tenne battailes you ioyne to the maine battaile a thousande extraordinarie Pikes and fiue hundred extraordinarie Veliti will you not appoincte these to be exercised Fabritio I would haue theim to bee exercised and that with moste great diligence the Pikes I would exercise at leaste Ansigne after Ansigne in the orders of the battailes as the other For as moche as these should doe me more seruise To what purpose the Pikes and Velite extraordinarie must seâ—â—e then the ordinarie battailes in all particulare affaires as to make guides to get bâ—â—ties and to doe like thynges but the Veliti I would exercise at home without bringing them together for that their office being to faight a sonder it is not mâ—te that thei should companie with other in the common exercises for that it shall suffice to exercise them well in the particular exercises Thei ought then as I firste tolde you nor now me thynkes no labour to rehearse it againe to cause their men to exercise them selues in these battailes whereby thei maie knowe how to keepe the raie to knowe their places to tourne quickly when either enemie or situacion troubleth them for that whâ—n thei knowe how to do this the place is after easely learned which a battaile hath to kepe and what is the office thereof in the armie and wheÌ„ a Prince or a common weale will take the paine and will vse their diligence in these orders and in these exercisyng it shall alwaies happen that in their countrie there shall bee good souldiours and thei to be superiours to their neighbours and shal be those whiche shall giue and not receiue the lawes of other men but as I haue saied the disorder wherein thei liue maketh that thei neclecte and doe not esteme those thynges and therefore our armies be not good and yet though there were either hed or member naturally vertuous thei cannot shewe it Cosimo What carriages would you that euery one of these battailes should haue Neither Centurion nor Pâ—ticapitaine ought not to ride What carriages the Capitaines ought to haue and the member of câ—â—tages requiâ—â—e to euery bandâ— of mâ—â—ne Fabritio Firste I would that neither Centurion nor Peticapitain should be suffered to ride and if the Conâ—stable would nedes ride I would that he should haue a Mule and not a horse I would allowe hym twoo carriages one to euery Centurion and twoo to euery three Peticapitaines for that so many wee lodge in a lodgyng as in the place therof we shall tell you So that euery battaile will come to haue .xxxvi. carriages the whiche I would should carrie of necessitie the tentes the vesselles to seeth meate axes barres of Iron sufficient to make the lodynges and then if thei can carry any other thyng thei maie dooe it at their pleasure Cosimo I beleue that the heddes of you ordeined in euery one of these battailes be necessarie albeit I would doubt 〈◊〉 that so many commaunders should confounde all Fabritio That should bee when it were not referred to one man but referryng it thei cause order ye and without theim it is impossible to gouerne an armie Without many capitaines an armie caÌ„not be gouerned for that a wall whiche â—n euery parte enclâ—neth requireth rather to haue many proppes and thicke although not so strong then fewe though thei were strong bâ—cause the vertue of
intent that the forme of the incampyng maie be the more perfect by lodgyng a perfecte armie whiche thyng in the other demonstracions hath not semed vnto me so necessarie Purposing then to incāpe a iuste armie The maner of the incamping of an armie of .xxiiij. thousande footemen of twoo thousande good horsemenne beeyng deuided into fower maine battailes twoo of our owne menne and twoo of straungers I would take this waie The situacion beyng founde where I would incampe I would erecte the hed standarde and aboute it I would marke out a quadrant whiche should haue euery side distante from it .xxxvij. yardes and a half of whiche euery one of them should lye towardes one of the fower regions of heauen as Easte Weste Southe and Northe betwene the whiche space The lodging for the generall capitaine I would that the capitaines lodgyng should be appoincted And bicause I beleue that it is wisedō to deuide the armed from the vnarmed seyng that so for the moste parte the Romaines did I would therefore seperate the menne that were cumbered with any thing from the vncombered I would lodge all or the greatest parte of the armed on the side towardes the Easte and the vnarmed and the cumbred on the Weste side makyng Easte the hedde and Weste the backe of the Campe and Southe and Northe should be the flanckes and for to distinguishe the lodgynges of the armed I would take this waie I would drawe a line from the hedde standarde and lead it towardes the Easte the space of CCCCC x yardes and a half I would after make two other lines that should place in the middeste the same and should bee as longe as that but stistante eche of theim from it a leuen yardes and a quarter in the ende whereof I would haue the Easte gate and the space that is betwene the twoo vttermoste lines should make a waie that should go frō the gate to the capitaines lodging whiche shall come to be .xxij. yardes and a halfe broad and CCCClxxij yardes and a halfe longe for the .xxxvij. yardes and a halfe the lodgyng of the Capitaine will take vp and this shall bee called the Capitaine waie Then there shall be made an other waie from the Southe gate to the Northe gate and shall passe by the hedde of the capitaine waie and leaue the Capitaines lodgyng towardes theaste whiche waie shal be .ix. C.xxxvij yardes a halfe long for the lēgth therof wil be as moche as the breadth of all the lodgynges shall likewise be xxij yardes a half broad and shal be called the crosse waie Then so sone as the Capitaines lodgyng were appoincted out and these twoo waies there shall bee begun to be appoincted out the lodginges of our own two main battailes one of the whiche I would lodge on the right hand of the capitaines waie the other on the lefte and therefore passing ouer the space that the breadth of the crosse waie taketh I would place xxxij lodgynges on the lefte side of the capitain waie and .xxxij. on the right side leauyng betwene the .xvi. and the .xvij. lodgyng a space of .xxij. yardes a halfe the whiche should serue for a waie ouerthwart whiche should runne ouerthwarte throughout all the lodgynges of the maine battailes as in the distributyng of them shall bee seen Of these twoo orders of lodgynges in the beginnyng of the head The lodging◠for the men of armes their Capitaine whiche shall come to ioygne to the crosse waye I would lodge the Capitaine of the men of armes in the .xv. lodgynges which on euerie side foloweth next their men of armes where eche main battaile hauyng a C.l. men of armes it will come to ten men of armes for a longyng The spaces of the Capitaines lodgynges should be in bredth .xxx. and in length .vij. yardes a halfe Note which is breadth and whiche length in the square campe And note that when so euer I sai bredeth it signifieth the space of the middest from Southe to Northe and saiyng length that whiche is from weste to Easte Those of the men of armes shoulde be .xi. yardes and a quarter in length and .xxii. yardes and a halfe in bredeth In the other xv lodgynges that on euerie syde should folowe The lodgings for the lighte horsemen and their capitain the whiche should haue their beginnyng on the other side of the ouerthwarte way and whiche shall haue the very same space that those of the men of armes had I woulde lodge the light horsemen wherof beynge a hundred and fiftie it will come to .x. horsemen for a lodgyng and in the .xvj. that remaineth I woulde lodge their Capitaine geuynge him the verie same space that is geuen to the Capitain of the men of armes and thus the lodginges of the horsemen of two maine battailes will come to place in the middest the Capitaine way and geue rule to the lodginges of the footemen as I shall declare You haue noted how I haue lodged the CCC horsemed of euerie main battaile with their Capitaines in .xxxij. lodgynges placed on the Captaine waie hauynge begun from the crosse waie and how from the .xvi. to the .xvii. there remaineth a space of .xxij. yardes and a halfe to make awaie ouerthwarte Mindyng therefore to lodge the xx battailes which the twoo ordinarie maine battailes haue The lodgings for the footemē of twoo ordinary main battailes I woulde place the lodgyng of euerie twoo battailes behinde the lodgynges of the horsemen eeuerie one of whiche should haue in lēgth .xi. yardes and a quarter and in bredeth .xxii. yardes and a half as those of the horsemens and should bee ioigned on the hinder parte that thei shoulde touche the one the other The lodgings for the conestables And in euery first lodgyng on euerie side which cometh to lie on the crosse waie I woulde lodge the Counstable of a battaile whiche should come to stand euen with the lodgyng of the Capitayne of the men of armes and this lodgyng shall haue onely of space for bredeth .xv. yardes and for length .vij. yardes and a halfe In the other .xv. lodgynges that on euerie side followeth after these euen vnto the ouerthwarte way I would lodge on euerie part a battaile of foote men whiche beyng .iiij. hundred fiftie there will come to a lodgyng .xxx. the other .xv. lodgynges The nomber of footemen appoicted to euery lodging I woulde place continually on euery side on those of the light horse men with the verie same spaces where I woulde lodge on euerie part an other battaile of fote men and in the laste lodgyng I would place on euery parte the Conestable of the battaile whiche will come to ioigne with the same of the Capitaine of the lighte hosemen with the space of .vii. yardes and a halfe for length and .xv. for bredeth and so these two firste orders of lodgynges shal be halfe of horsemen and halfe of footemen And for