ABSTRACT
Your Majesty is doubtless fully aware of the few precautions and little discipline usually observed by an untrained and untried population as against veteran and experienced soldiery; and also it is notorious that the inhabitants of this city are persons assembled to do business in trade and to attend to suits at law, and, further, that only one or another of them understands these matters although very few desire to know anything else. While musters are held as a matter of course and various sorts of persons figure in them, some are litigants and others are merchants, some are haggling shopkeepers and others those who find their profit and support in rural parts. These reviews usually bring out 500 men, but withal it is to be borne in mind that among them not a hundred nor even 60 can be called harquebusiers nor would dare to lift such a weapon to their shoulders because to do so is not their proper calling nor pertinent thereto, nor is it the purpose which brought them thither or the means of their support here.
