The order of trayning Footemen, necessarie to be obserued of all Sergeants, Lieutenants, and Cauallieres of the band.
FOr that the ignorance and decay of Armes in the be∣ginning of this age, and in these partes of Europe haue brought great confusion to diuers, which haue rawlie and rashlie professed the same, to the hazard of their liues and countrie: And for that Mustering and trayning of souldiers to make them expert to seruice is one of the greatest errors hath bin committed: therefore I haue thought good to borrow out of Master Stywards Booke of Martial discipline, his maner and forme of trayning, which I find in him set downe in more plaine and exquisite maner, according to the moderne vse, then of any that hath hitherto written so particularlie ei∣ther in our owne tongue, or in any other forraine language, wherein the Authour doth merite great commendations, whe∣ther the same procéedes of his owne experience, or that he hath drawne it out of other mens trauailes.
But first before I enter into particulars, I thinke it good to set downe, what Charecters I meane to vse in these discripti∣ons, that they may bée the better vnderstood, together with other notes appertaining to these present directions.
- C for Captaines.
- L for Lieutenants.
- S for Sergeants.
- D for Drums.
- F for Fiftes.
- s for Hargabusiers.
- a for Archers.
- b for Halberdiers.
- p for Pikes.
- h for Horsemen.