Compare 1577 edition: 1 The wiflers.The wiflers on foot, being in number foure hun|dred proper light persons, were clad in white ierkins of leather cut, with white hose and shooes, euerie man with a iauelin or slaughsword in his hands, to kéepe the people in arraie. They had chaines about their necks,The min|strels. and fethers in their caps. The minstrels were in white, with the armes of the citie, and so was eue|rie other person at this muster without anie diuersi|tie; the lord maior, recorder, and aldermen, onelie ex|cepted, who had crosses of veluet or satin pirled with gold. The standard bearers were the tallest men of e|uerie ward, for whome were made thirtie new stan|dards of the deuise of the citie, beside baners. Eue|rie alderman mustred his own ward in the fields, to sée that euerie man were in furniture prouided as was requisite.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The eight of Maie being the daie appointed for to shew themselues before the king,Euerie alder|man with his ward in order o [...] battell. euerie alderman in order of battell with those of his ward came into the fields at Mile end, and then all the gunners seue|red themselues into one place, the pikes into ano|ther, and the archers into an other, and likewise the bilmen, and there cast themselues in rings, and other formes of battell, which was a beautifull sight to be|hold: for all the fields from white Chapell to Mile end, and from Bednall greene to Ratcliffe & Step|nie, were all couered with armour, men, and wea|pons, and especiallie the battell of pikes séemed to be as it had béene a great forrest. Then was euerie part diuided into thrée battels, a for-ward, a midle-ward, and a rere-ward.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 About seauen of the clocke marched forward the light péeces of ordinance, with stone and powder.The order of the Londo|ners in their musters. Af|ter them followed the drums and fifes, and immedi|atlie after them a guidon of the armes of the citie. Then followed master Sadler capteine of the gun|ners on horssebacke armed, and in a cote of veluet, with a chaine of gold, and foure halberders about him apparelled as before is recited. Then followed the gunners foure in a ranke,The king ta|keth view of the Londo|ners in their musters. euerie one going fiue foot in sunder, which shot altogither in diuerse places verie liuelie, and in speciallie before the kings maie|stie, which at that time sat in his new gatehouse at his palace of Westminster, where he viewed all the whole companie. In like maner passed the other companies of all the three battels in good and séeme|lie order. The foremost capteine at nine of the clocke in the morning, by the little conduit came and ente|red into Paules churchyard, and from thense directlie to Westminster, and so through the sanctuarie, and round about the parke of S. Iames, and vp into the field, comming home through Holborne, and as the first capteine entered againe to the little conduit, the last of the muster entered Paules churchyard,The number of Londoners in this mu|ster. which was then about foure of the clocke in the afternoone. The number, beside the wiflers, and of other wai|ters was fiftéene thousand.