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royal Nauie, and alſo of merchants, as may hope with goodſucceſſe to encounter on ſea the force of any forraine Eni-mie, we looſe a great part of the benefite of this our chiefeſtrength, if relying onthis ſecond opinion we ſhould ſuf-fer 115 Enimie quietly to land, and then temporize after-Ward. 5

Againe there is no man of any meane experience butknoweth with what daunger men land out of boates ifthere be but any meane force before landing to re-ſiſt them. For if therwhile any ſtorme ariſe, the ſea alonefighteth for vs, and with any ſmall reſiſtance on land,will drowne great numbers of our inuading Ene-mies. 6

Alſo any ſmall Trench on land ſhall lodge ſhot in ſafe-tie to ſpoile as many of our Enimies as in boates ſhall offerto land, before they can approch the ſhore. f

Alſo in landing, before they can haue time to put them-ſelues in order, What an execution may a far leſſe numberof billes or ſords and targets do on them before they ſhalhaue time to vnite their forces. 5 f

Againe after the remnant ſhall land, if they be not alldrowned, ſlaine, or repelled im or before their landing, howeaſie a matter ſhall it be for a fe Lances ioyned with theweapons aforeſaid, to put ſuch a confuſed, diſperſed, ſcat-tered, ſeabeaten Companie to tlie ſword, before they ſnalleuer be able to aduance ſtandard, or put themſelues in or-der of battaile.

Beſides all this, if her Maieſties forces by ſea ſhouldnot in time be aſſembled of ſuch ſtrength as to be ablebefore landing to giue them battaile, yet any meaneforce aſſailing their ſhippes while their men are in lan-ding cannot but greatly annoy them, if not vtterly de-feat them. 8 f

Alſo in moſt places, except the Enimie bring his tidezuſtly with him he cannot e then if part land,& any