Antangil: Page 75

[English Translation]

                   of Antangil. First Book.[1]             75

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Of the weapons of the soldiers, both offensive and defensive.

CHAP. III.

      FIRST OF ALL, each hundred soldiers is divided into three, namely, into sixty pikemen, twenty musketeers, and twenty arquebuziers.
       The pikemen are armed with a cuirass of boiled leather, with tassets of the same, all with swords provided, & all sorts of weapons, except arquebuzades, especially since such armor is lighter than those of iron, & serve just as much for the blows from the hand: They wear an iron morion, crested & well tempered with wide brims, & very low crest, adorned with a pennache[2] of the colors of their Captains.
       They carry on their arm a large wooden pavois,[3] four and a half feet high, and two and a half wide, slightly curved, covered with pounded ox-sinew[4], and mixed with strong glue, and over it a very strong and well-stretched leather, with some motto painted in oil, according to how it pleases the soldiers, surrounded by a circle of

1. Reads Livre primier, when it should read "Livre troisième".
2. A "pennache" = a plume of feathers.
3. A pavois is a shield.
4. 16th Century kevlar.

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