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woundes, so that life may he in little or 
no danger: I. doo firmely heleave, that 
it is rather an encouragement to a reso- 
lute soldier, rather to approche towards 
them than anie way to shunne them. 
For in troth when | was in the French 
kings service amongst the olde bandes of 
footemen, I did greatly commende the 
force of the long-bowe; but how was L 
answered? to. be shorte, even thus 
** Non non, Angilois, vostre cause est bien 
salle; car dieu nous « donnes moyen de 
vous encountrer apres, vn autre sorte que 
ex temps pdsse.” No, no, Englishman, 
saith he, your case is. become fowle, 
for God hath given us meanes to encoun- 
ter with you after an other sorte then in 
times past; for nowe, saith he,the weakest 
of us are. able to give greater wounds 
then the greatest and strongest archer 
you have: and when I reply lyed, as. Sir 
Jobn Smith often dooth, that the number 
of arrowes dovth come so thicke, that it 
was lyke unto haile ; well, saith he, but 
it is not to be feared as that weapon 
dooth kill where it lightes; for, saith he, 
wien | doo.narche directlye upon then 
and seeing them comming, I doo stoupe 
a little with my head, to that end. my 
burgouet shall save my face, and seeing 
the same arrowes lighting apon my heade 
peece oreupon my brest, pouldrons, or 
vambraces, and so seeing the same, to 
be of no more force nor hurtfull; then 
doo I with lesse feare then before, boide- 
lye aduaunce forwardes to encounter 
withthem. But theseare but arguments 
of small effect, and rather to showe the 
opinion of the French souldiers then for 
any just proofe of the matter, it is re- 
quesit that by our owne knowledge, it be 
truely considered of; for as I have said 
before touchinge the English service at 
Bolloigne and Guisnes, with all the great 
garrisons there of long time kept, which 
was to our princes an infinite charge, 
and especially Bolloigne, with the mem- 
bers and fortificaiions. And netwith- 
standing there were as many stronge and - 
able archers iu the same garrisons. as in 
all Christendome, there were none better, 
for that number: let it bee considered, 
what was by them done, at any time of 
service, within those five yeeres that it 
was) English; or at Guisnes or Callice 
during the same time. — 
“* And nowe to a latter time, as in the 
seconde yeere of the queene’s majesties 
Bast happie raigne that nowe is, at the 
siege of Lieth, “where theres was verie 
mauie archers, as of Yorkeshire, Lanca- 
Buuve, Chéshire, Nottinghamshire; and 
Darbishire : there was as goed place t 
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have tried them, as was-in.any-place af 
late dayes, but I knowe that there was 
no good proofe made to the cominend- 
_ations of archerie or of the long-bowe., 
“And I may the more certainlie speake it 
for this cnuse : 
“Tt was my chaunce at the conclusion 
of the peace, and the yeelding up of the 
towne of Lieth, to meet with divers of 
my acquaintance beeinge Frenchmen; 
amongst the rest, I mette with a gentle- 
man and an oulde souldier, who served 
in, the same.company. that I was. off, 
amongest the footeinen in Fraunce, whose 
name was Mounsieur de Sentam, whose 
vallour and .honest conditions I did per 
fectiie knowe so much the better for 
that we were both under one corporall, 
and lodged tugether, and frequented at, 
meate and tablinge long together; in so 
much, that in respect of the great curtesie 
that I found at his handes in Fraunce, I 
partlie considered of at Lieth, and after 
divers speeches past betwixt him and me, 
I demaunded two questions of him. 
“‘ The first was to know how. many of 
onr souldiers were slaine at the skale or 
saltie by us given; he aunswered that 
there were slaine 448. I demaunded howe 
he did knowe the same; he aunswered that 
the governour of Lieth dyd commaunde 
that all the uppermost garmentes of the 
slaine men of the English partie should 
bee brought into the market place, and 
there to bee counted, which was done, as - 
he affirmed, and there were found, sayd 
he, so many as aforesayd. 
«* Secondly: remembering the wordes 
of the I'renchmen before rehearsed, 
the the time of my beeing in Fraunce, 
touchinge archers, I demaunded of this 
Sentam, howe manye were slaine with 
arrowes, from the beginning of the siedve 
unto that dayeg he answered not one, 
saving, said he, that one who was shot 
betwixt the shoulder and the bodie, and 
that with the beat of his body, when the 
arrow was pulied foorth, the head stuck 
behinde, and came not foorth together, 
whertore the surgion was constrained to 
cutthe man to recover the head of the 
arrow, and so the man still lay upon the 
amendment of his wound. Now, by this 
and other before rehearsed, and ieere- 
after to be rehearsed, it.dvoth and may 
appeare, that by harquebnzes great num- 
hers have come to their deaths, and 
either fewe or none with arrowes, or are 
chery. 
“And now touching Tan service doon 
a that time. that New-haven was kept, 
the 5 yeere of her majestie, by the Earle 
of Warwick: let the chronicle, or those 
thas 
