¶Howe younge souldiours should be exercised to vaulte or mounte on horses. Chapiter .xviij.
NOt onely of the younge souldiours, but also of stipen∣darie souldiours, the vaulting of horses hath alwayes bene straightly looked to. Whiche vse verely hathe cōtinued to this our age, although they would haue it seeme nowe as though it were not so▪ Horses of woode in wynter were set in a house, in sommer in the open fielde. Upon these the younge sorte were compelled to mounte, at the first with∣out armour, vntyll with vse and exercise, they could doe in∣differently well, afterwarde in their harneis they were for∣ced to doe the same. And so great regarde was there hereof, that they learned, not onelye on the right syde, but also on the lefte, bothe to gette of and on: yea, euen with drawen swordes, or long poles in their handes. And here was the commoditie of this continuall exercise, that these which in peace had plied this practise so diligently, when neuer so so∣den a tumulte was moued in battayle, with the leaste war∣nynge that coulde be, could mounte and horse them selues.