[Sidenote:  Battelments ought to be large and thicke and the flanckers large within.]

FABRICIO.  I tell you agayne, that the manners and orders of the warre, throughe oute all the worlde, in respecte to those of the antiquitie, be extinguesshed, and in Italye they bee altogether loste, for if there bee a thing somewhat stronger then the ordinarye, it groweth of the insample of other countries.  You mighte have understoode and these other may remember, with howe muche debilitie before, that king Charles of Fraunce in the yere of our salvation a thousande CCCC. xciiii. had passed into Italie, they made the batelmentes not halfe a yarde thicke, the loopes, and the flanckers were made with a litle opening without, and muche within, and with manye other faultes whiche not to be tedious I will let passe:  for that easely from thinne battelments the defence is taken awaye, the flanckers builded in the same maner, moste easylye are opened:  Nowe of the Frenchemen is learned to make the battelment large and thicke, and the flanckers to bee large on the parte within, and to drawe together in the middeste of the wall, and then agayn to waxe wider unto the uttermost parte without:  this maketh that the ordinaunce hardlye can take away the defence.  Therfore the Frenchmen have, manye other devises like these, the whiche because they have not beene seene of our men, they have not beene considered.  Among whiche, is this kinde of perculles made like unto a grate, the which is a greate deale better then oures:  for that if you have for defence of a gate a massive parculles as oures, letting it fall, you shutte in your menne, and you can not though the same hurte the enemie, so that hee with axes, and with fire, maye breake it downe safely:  but if it bee made like a grate, you maye, it being let downe, through those holes and through those open places, defende it with Pikes, with crosbowes, and with all other kinde of weapons.

BAPTISTE. I have seene in Italye an other use after the outelandishe fashion, and this is, to make the carriage of the artillery with the spokes of the wheele crooked towardes the Axeltree.  I woulde knowe why they make them so:  seeming unto mee that they bee stronger when they are made straighte as those of oure wheeles.

[Sidenote:  Neither the ditche, wall tillage, nor any kinde of edificacion, ought to be within a mile of a toune of warre.]

FABRICIO.  Never beleeve that the thinges that differ from the ordinarie wayes, be made by chaunce:  and if you shoulde beleeve that they make them so, to shewe fayrer, you are deceaved:  because where strength is necessarie, there is made no counte of fayrenesse:  but all groweth, for that they be muche surer and muche stronger then ours.  The reason is this:  the carte when it is laden, either goeth even, or leaning upon the righte, or upon the lefte side:  when it goeth even, the wheeles equally sustayne the wayght, the which being equallye devided