like unto the Romaines, of twoo maine battailes, and
of as many more aidyng men: the whiche I make,
to the intent that the forme of the incampyng, maie
be the more perfect, by lodgyng a perfecte armie:
whiche thyng in the other demonstracions, hath not
semed unto me so necessarie. Purposing then, to
incampe a juste armie, of xxiiii. thousande footemen,
and of twoo thousande good horsemenne, beeyng devided
into fower maine battailes, twoo of our owne menne,
and twoo of straungers, I would take this waie.
The situacion beyng founde, where I would incampe,
I would erecte the hed standarde, and aboute it, I
would marke out a quadrant, whiche should have every
side distante from it xxxvii. yardes and a half, of
whiche every one of them should lye, towardes one of
the fower regions of heaven, as Easte, Weste, Southe,
and Northe: betwene the whiche space, I would
that the capitaines lodgyng should be appoincted.
And bicause I beleve that it is wisedom, to devide
the armed from the unarmed, seyng that so, for the
moste parte the Romaines did, I would therefore seperate
the menne, that were cumbered with any thing, from
the uncombered. I would lodge all, or the greatest
parte of the armed, on the side towardes the Easte,
and the unarmed, and the cumbred, on the Weste side,
makyng Easte the hedde, and Weste the backe of the
Campe, and Southe, and Northe should be the flanckes:
and for to distinguishe the lodgynges of the armed,
I would take this waie. I would drawe a line
from the hedde standarde, and lead it towardes the
Easte, the space of CCCCC.x. yardes and a half:
I would after, make two other lines, that should place
in the middeste the same, and should bee as longe as
that, but distante eche of theim from it a leven yardes
and a quarter: in the ende whereof, I would have
the Easte gate, and the space that is betwene the
twoo uttermoste lines, should make a waie, that should
go from the gate, to the capitaines lodging, whiche
shall come to be xxii. yardes and a halfe broad, and
CCCClxxii. yardes and a halfe longe, for the xxxvii.
yardes and a halfe, the lodgyng of the Capitaine will
take up: and this shall bee called the Capitaine
waie. Then there shall be made an other waie,
from the Southe gate, to the Northe gate, and shall
passe by the hedde of the capitaine waie, and leave
the Capitaines lodgyng towardes theaste, whiche waie
shalbe ix.C.xxxvii. yardes and a halfe long (for the
length therof wilbe as moche as the breadth of all
the lodgynges) and shall likewise be xxii. yardes
and a half broad, and shalbe called the crosse waie.
Then so sone as the Capitaines lodgyng, were appoincted
out, and these twoo waies, there shall bee begun to
be appoincted out, the lodginges of our own two main
battailes, one of the whiche, I would lodge on the
right hand of the capitaines waie, and the other,
on the lefte: and therefore passing over the space,
that the breadth of the crosse waie taketh, I would
place xxxii. lodgynges, on the lefte side of the capitain
waie, and xxxii. on the right side, leavyng betwene
the xvi. and the xvii. lodgyng, a space of xxii. yardes
and a halfe, the whiche should serve for a waie overthwart,
whiche should runne overthwarte, throughout all the
lodgynges of the maine battailes as in the distributyng
of them shall bee seen.