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A06617	Instructions for the warres Amply, learnedly, and politiquely, discoursing the method of militarie discipline. Originally written in French by that rare and worthy generall, Monsieur William de Bellay, Lord of Langey, Knight of the order of Fraunce, and the Kings lieutenant in Thurin. Translated by Paule Iue, Gent.; Instructions sur le faict de la guerre. English	Fourquevaux, Raimond de Beccarie de Pavie, baron de, 1509-1574.; Ive, Paul. Practise of fortification. aut; Du Bellay, Guillaume, 1491-1543, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 1708.5; ESTC S109957	278,520	369

King doth keepe in his seruice or the greatest part of them What good order then may be taken in this matter Certainly my Lord you will aunswere me none but who would haue simple and plaine men so that they were the Kings subiects whom it were farre better to take into seruice supposing that they were leuied and chosen as appertaineth albeit that they neuer had been at any seruice and that they do come but from houlding of the plough then those that had long time exercised the occupation of armes although they be alswell experimented as they might be so that they were otherwise ill conditioned for that you shall finde that it is easier to make simple and newe men good Souldiers then it is to bring the wicked to good waies after that they are once gone astray It is not then without cause that I praise the leuie of those that may bée made good Souldiers with little difficultie and that I crye against those which are so excéeding wicked that there is not almost any remedie to amend them And therefore it were not conuenient that my sayings should be dispraised nor condemned if I haue spoken against the wicked for my meaning was to prick them only and no others nor it were no reason that I should bee reproued although I haue blamed the manner that wee do vse in leuying Aduenturers for I haue not done it before I had iustly praised to weet whether the Legionaries or the said voluntaries were better nor before regard taken diligently vnto the profite that may come of the one vnto the inconueniences and euils of which the others are commonly causers for if I had made any comparison on mine owne side I would neuer bee so rash as to put it to iudgement as I do But bee it that those that doe maintaine their part should finde mine opinion euill and the libertie I haue vsed in speaking yet will I not therefore leaue to exhort al those that vse the warres and doe delight to haue the title of Aduenturers that they should chaunge for some other maner that should be better then that which we haue handled hetherto and that of euill liuers as we are euery man should bestowe his labour to become a man of good life and if wee haue béen inexpert in the feates of armes heretofore let vs endeuour to reforme our selues hereafter in such sort that the King seeing vs to bee well conditioned and perfect good Souldiers may thinke himselfe happie specially finding such Souldiers to be in his realme that our enemies or neighbours who daylie raunsack vs being aduertised of our valour should make greater difficultie to mooue warre against the sayd Lord to morrowe or next day then they are accustomed or to hould themselues at too high a price if he had need of the ayd of his sayd neighbours knowing how much we do excell them in vertue and discipline Here endeth the third and last Booke FINIS THE PRACTISE of Fortification Wherein is shewed the manner of fortifying in all sorts of scituations with the considerations to be vsed in delining and making of royal Frontiers Skonces and renforcing of ould walled Townes Compiled in a most easie and compendious method by Paule Iue Gent. Imprinted at London by Thomas Orwin for Thomas Man and Toby Cooke 1589. To the Right Honorable Sir William Brooke of the most noble order of the Garter Knight Lord Cobham Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and their members of her Maiesties most honorable priuie Counsaile and Lord Lieutenant of the Countie of Kent And vnto the Right Honorable Sir Frauncis Walsingham Knight principall Secretarie to her Maiestie Chancelor of the Dutchie of Lancaster and of her Highnesse most honorable priuie Counsaile THe manifold benefites that I haue receiued at your Honors hands since my returne into England haue enforced me to seeke some meanes whereby J might make known my thankfulnes for the same And finding nothing more agreeable vnto your Honorable cares in the seruice of her Maiestie wherein I might do you more humble seruice then in the practise of Fortification hauing had sight therein since the view taken by the Marques Vitell for the oppressing of the Lowe Countries with the yoke of Citadels and exercise sithence Don Johns departing from Bruxels vnto Namure which practise although it be not so common amongst vs or of some thought altogether so necessary for vs as for the nations whose countries do lie adioyning together where an enemie may enter with a great number of horse men vpon the sodaine yet is the knowledge necessarie that when the practise should bee put in execution in the seruice of her Maiestie that perfection might be efected that might do her Highnesse seruice And therfore I haue compiled this little treatise of the practise of Fortification which J most humbly present vnto your Honors beseeching you to receiue it as a most humble token of the desire J haue to do you seruice Your Honors most humblie readie at commaundement Paule Iue The Practise of Fortification The necessary placing of a Forte The 1. Chapter THE reason that moued men first to enclose their Cities and other habitations with walles was to be assured from enemies and that a small number might defende themselues from the violence and oppressions of a great wherein their first practise extended no farther then the preseruation of priuate estates vntill such time as it was considered that not only perticuler places but also the generall estate of a Kingdome Prouince or Countrey might be defended by placing of walled Townes Castels and Fortresses vpon the edge and borders of the same of such sufficient strength and greatnesse as that in time of peace they might be kept with a fewe men and vppon a surmize of warre receiue a greater number by whome the enemye borderer should not only be anoyed in his Countrey and hindered to enter vppon the lands of his neighbours so frontierd with any small power vpon the suddaine but bringing any great army be constrained not to passe the Fort without subduing it for auoiding the great mischiefe he might receiue of so noysome an enemy left behinde him which to inuade would aske great charge time and trauell besides the danger that might happen In placing of which Fortresses two things are chiefely to be considered of the necessitie and the scituation for as a Forte not placed where it were néedefull might skantly be accompted for frontier so hauing no benefit of the place it standeth in it might hardly be reckoned for fortresse so that the one must helpe the other to the best effect that may be A Fort therefore that shall serue for a frontier must bée set néere the walled Townes Castels and frontiers of the enemy borderer or néere other places where an enemy may make any suddaine assembly of people in hys Countrey hauing the way from thence commodious to enter vppon the lands of his neighbours and the retreate good and vppon the Seacoasts

moreouer the mischiefe moreouer the mischiefe that may happen vnto their towne if it were besieged to the country round about it and besides the desolations murders forces and violences which are made in the taking of a town to giue them the better encouragement to this matter to shewe the welfare that maye happen vnto thē in generall in hauing of the good fauor of so mighty a king Concerning the townes that are not constrained to defend them selues through any extreame necessity but onely make wars to take part with others wee must say that they make warres of themselues or that they doe fauour an enemy if so bee that they make wars of themselues there will not bee so great difficulty to win them as when they do defend themselues of necessity for they will soone be weary of the great expences and danger that they do put themselues into for other mens quarrels in thys case there must be faier promises made to winne them to cause them to abandon the aliance of the said enemy but when as they do but fauour an enemy it is either with the consent of the inhabitants or against their willes if it bee against their willes the way is open to perswade them all that the aforesaid Generall will and if it be with there wills there must bee paines taken to corrupt the principall Chiefes and certaine Captains or other officers amongst the souldiers who may make them to beleeue that their towne is not defencible or that they should not be succoured in time or if the town did rāpar they might hinder fortification by working sloly if they were souldiers that did worke they might sow some voice amongst them ●o cause thē to refuse to do it saying that it is a worke belonging to pioners not to souldiers if they were pioners they ought to cause them by some means to go their wais to the intent the town might by no means be foūd strong nor rāpared when it shold be assaulted but be constrained to yeld to vs by by These corrupted peple may also cause the prouisions to be consumed by the souldiers fayning to giue no regarde therevnto vntill that all were spent as Frauncis the Lord Marques of Salusse did at the time that hee should haue kept Tossan for the king who plaid his part so subtilly before that hee turned his coate throughlye that the towne at there neede was in all poinctes in as euill an estate to defend it selfe as the Emperour might haue wished it to be and notwithstanding it held certaine daies making of necessity a vertue These things might rather be put in proofe then the vsing of force He must consider if the towne which he doth practise to get be in estate to abide a siege and to continewe it long or not and if it bee sufficiently prouided and alwaies kept with good watch the meane aforesaid must be put in proofe But when as it shal be vnprouided of things necessary hath not begune to prouide before hand it is then time to aboord it whilest it is vnprouided The Spaniards tooke this oportunitie when as the Lord Bonneuall did but enter in at Lodes for before he had deuided the quarters appointed what part euery band should kéep they were at the gates whervpon the said towne finding it self vnready in al points was won by assault We must therfore take these oportunities not let thē slip because it is to be feared how little leasure so euer they may haue whilest we go come that they would make the place strong and furnishe it with all that it should haue need of which is an oportunity that ought to be taken from an enemy not to be giuen him Therfore if the said generall wil haue this aduantage or other vpon his enemies he must haue a care to know their busines trewly as I haue said determine thervpon afterwardes how he may proceed most surest In mine opinion if a towne be in diuision to wit if there be strife between the inhabitants or amongst the souldiers or between the inhabitants the souldiers the general ought not to léese such an oportunity but to do al his endeuor to come before it furnished with many ladders to stall it with other light ingins to beat down gates and walles whilest they within do think vpon other matters these enterprizes must be executed in comming far of for how furder of the generall doth come so that he make great speed the more he shal amaze his enemies when they shal see him at their gates because they douted nothing at which place when he is ariued he must assault it so quikly hotly on al sides that the inhabitants should not know vnto what Sainct to bequethe themselues except they yeeld at the very instant that he did sōmon them for if he giue them but a quarter of an hower respit to counsaile together look about he shall finde that the common daunger wherein they are all that are with in the towne wil cause them to remember themselues and to defend their persons and town together wheras if he do not giue them leasure to bethinke themselues beeing so suddainly supprized with the distrust that they haue one of another the greatest hast that the town will make wil be to yeld it selfe Me thinke also that a towne where there are diuers partakers as in Italie may easily be gotten by means of intelligence had with one of the partes who might giue enteraunce into the towne at some place were it by night or by daye or if the walles were well kept then those with whome the Generall had this intelligence might seaze vpon the voyd places and strong buildings within the towne and at some certain signe giuen he might appoint to beginne the broile within and assaulte the towne without at the gates and walles which doing I dare beleeue that the most hardiest and most assuredst amongst them would abandon their defences incontinent to saue their liues seeing thē to be assaulted in so many places at once By that meanes was Genes taken in the yeere 1527. in the name of the king by the Lorde Caesar Fregose I make mine account that if the said Lord had the last time giuen intelligence vnto those of the league as he did at the first that it had bene taken againe without any difficulty and that he had not bene repulsed as he was But he meaning to surprize it by full assault doubting that if he aduertised his friendes that those of the contrary part shoulde haue knowen it also and trusting his partakers would haue bin ready enough when as they should heare his name cried would not that any man shold know of his comming which was cause that his partakers had rather at his comming to keepe their town with one common accord with his enemies then not taking arms to abide the aduenture not knowing for whom or what It may bee