As for soldiers sent into other places, Cornwall yeeldeth, vpon euery
occasion, a proportionable supply to the wants of Ireland; neither is
acquitted from performing the like seruice for Fraunce, if the
employment be in Brittaine or Normandy. Which often ventings
notwithstanding, vpon the instance of Captaine Lower, and the
sollicitation of his friends, there passed ouer this last yeere
into Netherland, at one time, 100. voluntaries and vpwards, there to
serue under Sir Frauncis Vere. And besides, they often make out men
of warre against the Spaniards.
Forts and Castles there are; some, olde and worne out of date; and
some in present vse, with allowance of garrison.
Amongst the first sort, I reckon these, appertayningto the Duchy,
as also Tintogel, and diuers round holds on the tops of hils; some
single, some double, and treble trenched, which are termed, Castellan
Denis, or Danis, as raysed by the Danes, when they were destyned to
become our scourge.
Moreouer, in this ranke wee may muster the earthen Bulwarks, cast vp
in diuers places on the South coast, where any commodity of landing
seemeth to inuite the enemie, which (I gesse) tooke their originall
from the statute 4.
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