Sometimes also it is occupied [_used_], when it pleaseth the magistrate, either to view the able men and take note of the well keeping of the same; or finally to see those that are enrolled, to exercise each one his several weapon: at the charge of the townsmen of each parish, according to his appointment. Certes there is almost no village so poor in England, be it never so small, that hath not sufficient furniture in a readiness to set forth three or four soldiers (as, one archer, one gunner, one pike, and a bill-man), at the least. No, there is not so much wanting as their very liveries [_uniforms_] and caps; which are least to be accounted of, if any haste required. So that if this good order continue, it shall be impossible for the sudden enemy to find us unprovided. As for able men for service, thanked be GOD! we are not without good store. For by the Musters taken in 1574 and 1575, our number amounted to 1,172,674; and yet they were not so narrowly taken, but that a third part of this like multitude was left unbilled and uncalled. What store of munition and armour, the Queen's Majesty hath in her storehouses, it lieth not in me to yield account; sith I suppose the same to be infinite. And whereas it was commonly said, after the loss of Calais, that England would never recover the store of ordnance there left and lost; the same is proved false: since some of the same persons do now confess that this land was never better furnished with these things in any King's days, since the Conquest. The names of our greatest ordnance are commonly these: _Robinet_, whose weight is 200 lbs.; and it hath 1-1/4 inches within the mouth. _Falconet_, weighing 500 lbs., and his wideness is 2 inches within the mouth. _Falcon_ hath 800 lbs., and 2-1/2 inches within the mouth. _Minion_ poiseth [_weigheth_] 1,100 lbs., and hath 3-1/4 inches within the mouth. _Sacre_ hath 1,500 lbs., and is 3-1/2 inches wide in the mouth. _Demi-Culverin_ weigheth 3,000 lbs., and hath 4-1/2 inches within the mouth. _Culverin_ hath 4,000 lbs., and 5-1/2 inches within the mouth. _Demi-Cannon_, 6,000 lbs., and 6-1/2 inches within the mouth. _Cannon_, 7,000 lbs., and 8 inches within the mouth. _E. Cannon_, 8,000 lbs., and 7 inches within the mouth. _Basilisk_, 9,000 lbs., and 8-3/4 inches within the mouth. By which proportions, also, it is easy to come by the weight of every shot, how many scores [_i.e., of yards_] it doth fly at point blank, how much powder is to be had to the same, and finally how many inches in height, each bullet ought to carry. The names of the Weight of Scores [of Pounds of Height of Great Ordnance the Shot. yards] of Powder. Bullet. hath lbs. carriage. Inches. _Robinet_ 1 10 1/2 1