should have neede of many capitaines, and that it
should be made of sunderie partes, so that every one
by it self, might be governed. The maine battailes
of the Suizzers, use at this present, all the maners
of the Falangi, as well in ordryng it grosse, and
whole, as in rescuyng the one the other: and in
pitchyng the field, thei set the main battailes, thone
to the sides of the other: and though thei set
them the one behinde the other, thei have no waie,
that the firste retiryng it self, maie bee received
of the seconde, but thei use this order, to the entent
to bee able to succour the one thother, where thei
put a maine battaile before, and an other behinde thesame
on the right hande: so that if the first have
nede of helpe, that then the other maie make forewarde,
and succour it: the third main battaile, thei
put behind these, but distant from them, a Harkebus
shot: this thei doe, for that thesaid two main
battailes being repulced, this maie make forwarde,
and have space for theim selves, and for the repulced,
and thesame that marcheth forward, to avoide the justling
of the one the other: for asmoche as a grosse
multitude, cannot bee received as a little bodie:
and therefore, the little bodies beyng destincte, whiche
were in a Romaine Legion, might be placed in soche
wise, that thei might receive betwene theim, and rescue
the one the other. And to prove this order of
the Suizzers not to be so good, as the auncient Romaines,
many insamples of the Romain Legions doe declare,
when thei fought with the Grekes Falangi, where alwaies
thei were consumed of theim: for that the kinde
of their weapons (as I have said afore) and this waie
of renuyng themselves, could do more, then the massivenesse
of the Falangi. Havyng therefore, with these
insamples to ordaine an armie, I have thought good,
partly to retaine the maner of armyng and the orders
of the Grekes Falangi, and partely of the Romain Legions:
and therfore I have saied, that I would have in a
main battaile, twoo thousande pikes, whiche be the
weapons of the Macedonicall Falangi, and three thousande
Targaettes with sweardes, whiche be the Romain weapons:
I have devided the main battaile, into x. battailes,
as the Romaines their Legion into ten Cohortes:
I have ordeined the Veliti, that is the light armed,
to begin the faight, as the Romaines used: and
like as the weapons beyng mingled, doe participate
of thone and of the other nacion, so the orders also
doe participate: I have ordained, that every
battaile shall have v. rankes of Pikes in the fronte,
and the rest of Targaettes, to bee able with the front,
to withstande the horses, and to enter easely into
the battaile of the enemies on foot, having in the
firste fronte, or vawarde, Pikes, as well as the enemie,
the whiche shall suffice me to withstande them, the
Targaettes after to overcome theim. And if you
note the vertue of this order, you shal se al these
weapons, to doe fully their office, for that the Pikes,
bee profitable against the horses, and when thei come