Military instructions for the cavallrie, or, Rules and directions for the service of horse collected out of divers forrein authours, ancient and modern, and rectified and supplied according to the present practice of the Low-Countrey warres.

CHAP. XI. Of the Trumpeters.

IT is not enough that a Trumpeter know how (exactly) to sound all the severall sounds of the trumpet, but he must also be discreet and judicious; not onely to be fit to deliver embassies and messages as they ought, but (at his return) toa 1.1 report what he hath observed concerning the ene∣mies works and guards, and what he hath further gathered and spied. To do this, he must be wit∣tie and subtile, knowing how to invent and affirm things which are not, artificially concealing whatsoever passeth among those of his own side. He must sound theb 1.2 boutezselle precisely at the houre appointed him; and when the Cornet giveth him the list of the guards, he must signifie it unto them. One Trumpeter must alwayes lodge with the Cornet, to whom the Captain is to give means for his entertainment. He must alwayes have his trumpet about him, to have it ready at a sudden allarm.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Ne manco si lasci troppo usare la fre∣quentia di ve∣nire trombetti & tamburri: perche in ques essercito tall'∣hora son huo∣mini molto a∣stuti & prati∣chi; da poterti nocere assai; G. Cataneo. di fortif. &' cap. 4.
• b 1.2

  That is, set on the saddle; being the first sound when the horse are to march; the next is a chevall, that is, mount on horseback: the third and last is a standart, that is, repair to your Cornet. See chap. 32.