Compare 1577 edition: 1 As manie in the battell.In the middle ward, were assigned as manie per|sons, or more, as were in the formost battell, and the charge thereof was committed to the dukes of Bar and Alanson, the earles of Neuers, Uaudemont, Blamont, Salinges, Grant Prée, & of Russie. And in the rereward were all the other men of armes guided by the earles of Marle, Dampmartine, Fau|conberg, and the lord of Lourreie capteine of Arde, who had with him the men of the frontiers of Bolo|nois. Thus the Frenchmen being ordered vnder their standards and banners,The French esteemed six to [...] English. made a great shew: for suerlie they were estéemed in number six times as manie or more, than was the whole companie of the Englishmen, with wagoners, pages and all. They rested themselues, waiting for the bloudie blast of the terrible trumpet, till the houre betwéene nine and ten of the clocke of the same daie, during which sea|son, the constable made vnto the capteins and other men of warre a pithie oration, exhorting and incou|raging them to doo valiantlie, with manie comforta|ble words and sensible reasons. King Henrie also like a leader, and not as one led; like a souereigne, and not an inferior, perceiuing a plot of ground ve|rie strong & méet for his purpose, which on the backe halfe was sensed with the village, wherein he had lod|ged the night before, and on both sides defended with hedges and bushes, thought good there to imbattell his host, and so ordered his men in the same place, as he saw occasion, and as stood for his most aduan|tage.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The order of the English armie and archers.First, he sent priuilie two hundred archers into a lowe medow, which was néere to the vauntgard of his enimies; but separated with a great ditch, com|manding them there to keepe themselues close till they had a token to them giuen, to let driue at their aduersaries: beside this, he appointed a vaward, of the which he made capteine Edward duke of Yorke, [...] of an haultie courage had desired that office, and with him were the lords Beaumont, Willoughbie, and Fanhope,The vaward all of archers. and this battell was all of archers. The middle ward was gouerned by the king him|selfe, with his brother the duke of Glocester, and the earles of Marshall, Oxenford, and Suffolke, in the which were all the strong bilmen. The duke of Exce|ster vncle to the king led the rereward, which was mi [...]ed both with bilmen and archers. The horssemen like wings went on euerie side of the battell.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Archers the greatest force of the English armie.Thus the king hauing ordered his battels, feared not the puissance of his enimies, but yet to prouide that they should not with the multitude of horssemen breake the order of his archers, in whome the force of his armie consisted [¶ For in those daies the yeo|men had their lims at libertie, Abr. Fl. out of Fabian pag. 392 and Polychron. sith their hosen were then fastened with one point, and their iackes long and easie to shoot in; so that they might draw bowes of great strength, and shoot arrowes of a yard long; beside the head] he caused stakes bound with iron sharpe at both ends,A politike in|uention. of the length of fiue or six foot to be pitched before the archers, and of ech side the foot|men like an hedge, to the intent that if the barded horsses ran rashlie vpon them, they might shortlie be gored and destroied. Certeine persons also were appointed to remooue the stakes, as by the mooue|ing of the archers occasion and time should require, so that the footmen were hedged about with stakes, and the horssemen stood like a bulwarke betwéene them and their enimies, without the stakes. Hall. This de|uise of fortifieng an armie, was at this time first in|uented: but since that time they haue deuised cal|traps, harrowes, and other new engins against the force of horssemen; so that if the enimies run hastilie vpon the same, either are their horsses wounded with the stakes, or their féet hurt with the other engins, so as thereby the beasts are gored, or else made vnable to mainteine their course.