Lead, three thousand sixe hundred wayght.
Match, three thousand sixe hundred wayght.
All which, saue the ordinance itselfe, partly by piecemeale
employment, and partly by ouerlong, or euil keeping, is now growne
to nought, or naught.
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After the sudden surprize of Pensants, anno 1595. by direction from
the Lords, order was taken, that vpon any alarum, the next Captains
should forthwith put themselues with their companies, into their
assigned seacoast townes, whom the adioyning land-forces were
appoynted to second and third, as the opportunity of their dwellings
affoorded best occasion.
The yeere following, by a new commaund, 4000. were allotted out,
and prouided in a readines to march for the ayd of Deuon, if cause
so required, as the Lord Lieutenant of that County had the same order,
vpon like necessitie, to send an equall number into Cornwall.
Lastly, anno 1599. when the Spanish fleet was againe expected,
the Cornish forces voluntarily assembled themselues, and made head,
at the entrance, middle, and Westpart of their south coast.
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