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the number of thre hundred footemen, And in the Countie 

 of Stafford fowre hundred footemen of men well armed and 

 weaponed, And to be Comitted to the charge of some principall 

 gentlemen of the Contry suche as for their Credibt will make 

 Choise of seruiceable men w"' good contentacon of their soldiers 

 and allso to haue their leeftenhts and officers vnder them to be 

 men of experience in the warres, w^*" numbers wee require yo to 

 cause to be well sorted w"* their weapons so as twoe pts of theim 

 at the least maye be of shott w"* the harquebuze and of long 

 bowes the rest to be weaponed w"' piles and bills And the same 

 to be put in suche redines after the receipte of theis o' Ires as at 

 any Conuenient tyme afterwards they maye be vewed by suche as 

 we shall send to see theim in good order, And allso that vpon 

 the Ires to be sent from o' said Cosin of Huntingdon to yo 

 requiringe the ayde of those numbers or of any pte theirof the 

 same maye be sent or so many of them as he shall require 

 w'Wt delaye vnder sufficient Captaines as afore is mencioned to 

 suche place of his leeftenncy as he shall by his Ires appoint, wher 

 the Captaines whom yo shall appoint ou' them or any other by yo 

 to be appointed shall receiue the ordinary somes of money for 

 their Coats and their Conduct and from thence afterwards shall 

 also receiue our ordinary paye. Yt hathe bene thought allso very 

 nedfuU if any inuasion should happen to Come by the waye of 

 Scotland w"' any forces from straunge Contries that their might 

 be some Conuenient nomber of demilances in redines to serue w"" 

 other the forces of the light horsemen of the Northe And for that 

 purpose we think it very necessary to haue a Certen nomber of 

 Launces prouided out of the Countyes vsually aunswerable for 

 the warres against Scotland, of w""'* nomber wee doe require yo to 

 vse the best meanes yo can w"' the principall gentellmen of those 

 Shires to haue the nomber of thirtie and fower to be furnished 

 w"" horse and launce meet for seruice, so as yf occasion shall so 

 happen by any forren forces to enter into the Northe pts of o' 

 realrne o' Cosin of Huntingdon beinge o' Leeftemit generall there 

 findinge the necessitie to be releued w"' theim may vpon his 



