[1] For the custome of the countries adioining néere to the sea is (especiallie in the time of warre) on eue|rie hill or high place to erect a beacon with a great lanterne in the top,The vse of beacons in countries néere the sea coasts. which may be séene and discerned a great space off. And when the noise is once bruted that the enimies approch neere the land, they sudden|lie put fire in the lanternes, and make shouts and outcries from towne to towne, and from village to village. Some run in post from place to place, admo|nishing the people to be readie to resist the ieopardie, and defend the perill. And by this policie the fame is soone blowne to euerie citie and towne, in somuch that aswell the citizens as the rurall people be in short space assembled and armed, to repell and put backe the new arriued enimies. [Whereas if the ne|cessarie vse of this visible warning were neglected, the policie of the enimie might priuilie so preuaile, as that the people should sooner fall into perill irre|couerable, than they could thinke on (much lesse pro|uide) meanes to auoid it.]