whereof, should stande the generall capitaine, with
his menne about him. And for that these battailes
ordeined thus, marche all one waie, but faight not
all one waie, in puttyng them together, those sides
ought to be ordained to faight, whiche are not defended
of thother battailes. And therfore it ought to
be considered, that the five battailes that be in the
front, have all their other partes defended, excepte
the fronte: and therfore these ought to bee put
together in good order, and with the Pikes afore.
The five battailes whiche are behinde, have all their
sides defended, except the parte behinde, and therefore
those ought to bee put together in soche wise, that
the Pikes come behind, as in the place therof we shall
shewe. The five battailes that bee in the right
flancke, have all their sides defended, except the
right flancke. The five that be on the left flanck,
have all their partes defended, excepte the lefte flancke:
and therefore in orderyng the battailes, thei ought
to bee made, that the Pikes maie tourne on the same
flanck, that lieth open: and the Peticapitaines
to stand on the hedde, and on the taile, so that nedyng
to faight, all the armour and weapons maie be in their
due places, the waie to doe this, is declared where
we reasoned of the maner of orderyng the battailes.
The artillerie I would devide, and one parte I would
place without, on the lefte flancke, and the other
on the right. The light horsemen, I would sende
afore to discover the countrie. Of the menne
of armes, I would place part behinde, on the right
home, and parte on the lefte, distante about thirtie
yardes from the battailes: and concerning horse,
you have to take this for a general rule in every
condicion, where you ordaine an armie, that alwaies
thei ought to be put, either behinde, or on the flanckes
of thesame: he that putteth them afore, over
against the armie, it behoveth hym to doe one of these
twoo thinges, either that he put them so moche afore,
that beyng repulced, thei maie have so moche space,
that maie give them tyme, to be able to go a side
from thy footemen, and not to runne upon them, or to
order them in soche wise, with so many spaces, that
the horses by those maie enter betwene them, without
disorderyng them. Nor let no man esteme little
this remembraunce, for as moche as many capitaines,
whom havyng taken no hede thereof, have been ruinated,
and by themselves have been disordered, and broken.
The carriages and the unarmed menne are placed, in
the rome that remaineth within the armie, and in soche
sorte equally devided, that thei maie give the waie
easely, to whom so ever would go, either from the
one corner to the other, or from the one hedde, to
the other of the armie. These battailes without
the artillerie and the horse, occupie every waie from
the utter side, twoo hundred and eleven yardes and
a halfe of space: and bicause this quadrante is
made of twoo main battailes, it is convenient to distinguishe,
what part thone maine battaile maketh, and what the