The moſtſubſtantial&honeſt mento be enrol-leds, iftheirbodies be fitFor it.

STRATIOTICOs.

J graunt it perillous for a defendant Prince to hazardhis Crowne on a battaile, and more daungerous for menvntrained to encounter expert diſciplined Souldiers, andmoſt perillous to vs that haue no ſtrong Townes tomake heade if wee looſe a battaile. And therefore it is nopart of my meaning to wiſh our Prince to giue any in-uading Enimie battaile with all our forces, hom well pre-pared and ordered ſoeuer we ſfould be. But my meaningis to haue ſuch prouiſion in euerie ſhire as we may beable readily on any ſodaine to giue the Enimie all anoy-ance poſſible, before and at the landing, while the in wardforces of our Countrey may the better aſſemble and putthemſelues in Militare order, to proceed after as ſhalbefound moſt conuenient.. a 5

And therefore, to auoid as well confuſed aſſemblies ofour owne forces, as alſo to be able like Souldiers orderlyto annoy the Enimie by all meanes at the landing, and ne-uertheleſſe to reſerue all aduantages of temporizing after-warcl if we ſhould not defeate or repell them at or before5 1 8 theſe notes enſuing I would wiſh to be con-

ered.

Notes to be remembredim the(Aluſters, and or-dering men hercafter.

Irſt that all bad Armour, weapons, and furniture beJ defaced, or taken away, and ſuch new prouided as maybe ſeruiceable. And this to be better executed without fa-uour indifferently on all degrees.

That better Conſideration be had of ſelecting or enrol-ling of ſouldiers, that onely actiue and able bodies be ap-pointed for weapon, and the reſt for pyoners or laborers.And that ſuch laborers be enioyned alſo to haue in 1 55

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