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.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 King Henrie, by reason of his small number of people to fill vp his battels, placed his vauntgard so on the right hand of the maine battell, which himselfe led, that the distance betwixt them might scarse be perceiued, and so in like case was the rereward ioi|ned on the left hand, that the one might the more rea|dilie succour an other in time of néed. When he had thus ordered his battels, he left a small companie to kéepe his campe and cariage, which remained still in the village, and then calling his capteins and soldi|ers about him, he made to them a right graue orati|on, moouing them to plaie the men,K. Henries oration to his men. whereby to ob|teine a glorious victorie, as there was hope certeine they should, the rather if they would but remember the iust cause for which they fought, and whome they should incounter, such faint-harted people as their ancestors had so often ouercome. To conclude, ma|nie words of courage he vttered, to stirre them to doo manfullie, assuring them that England should neuer be charged with his ransome, nor anie Frenchmen triumph ouer him as a captiue; for either by famous death or glorious victorie would he (by Gods grace) win honour and fame.