ordered, will take in bredth Cvi. yardes, and in length
CL. Thextraordinarie Pikes, I would deffende a
long the flanckes of these battailes, on the left
side, distante from them fiftene yardes, makyng Cxliij.
rankes, seven to a ranke, after soche sorte, that
thei maie impale with their length, all the left sixe
of the tenne battailes in thesame wise, declared of
me to be ordained: and there shall remain fourtie
rankes to keepe the carriages, and the unarmed, whiche
ought to remaine in the taile of the armie, distributyng
the Peticapitaines, and the Centurions, in their places:
and of the three Conestables, I would place one in
the hedde, the other in the middeste, the third in
the laste ranke, the whiche should execute the office
of a Tergiductore, whom the antiquitie so called hym,
that was appoincted to the backe of the armie.
But retournyng to the hedde of the armie, I saie how
that I would place nere to the extraordinarie pikes,
the Veliti extraordinarie, whiche you knowe to be five
hundred, and I would give them a space of xxx. yardes:
on the side of these likewise on the left hande, I
would place the menne of armes, and I would thei should
have a space of a Cxii. yardes: after these, the
light horsemen, to whom I would appoinct as moche
ground to stande in, as the menne of armes have:
the ordinarie veliti, I would leave about their owne
battailes, who should stand in those spaces, whiche
I appoincte betwene thone battaile and thother:
whom should be as their ministers, if sometyme I thought
not good to place them under the extraordinarie Pikes:
in dooyng or not doyng whereof, I would proceade, accordyng
as should tourne best to my purpose. The generall
hedde of all the maine battaile, I would place in
thesame space, that were betwene the first and the
seconde order of the battailes, or els in the hedde,
and in thesame space, that is betwene the laste battaile
of the firste five, and the extraordinarie Pikes,
accordyng as beste should serve my purpose, with thirtie
or fourtie chosen men about hym, that knewe by prudence,
how to execute a commission, and by force, to withstande
a violence, and thei to be also betwen the Drumme
and the Ansigne: this is thorder, with the whiche
I would dispose a maine battaile, whiche should bee
the disposyng of halfe the armie, and it should take
in breadth three hundred fourscore and twoo yardes,
and in length as moche as above is saied, not accomptyng
the space, that thesame parte of the extraordinarie
Pikes will take, whiche muste make a defence for the
unarmed, whiche will bee aboute lxxv. yardes:
the other maine battaile, I would dispose on the righte
side, after the same maner juste, as I have disposed
that on the lefte, leavyng betwene the one main battaile,
and thother, a space of xxii. yardes: in the hedde
of whiche space, I would set some little carriages
of artillerie, behynde the whiche, should stande the
generall capitaine of all the armie, and should have
about hym with the Trumpet, and with the Capitaine