The  experience  of  every  fresh  campaign  now  told  more

1  Sismondi.  t.  iii.  p.  263,  &c.,  has  some  the  1500  lances  who  composed  the  origi-
ju'lieious  observations  on  this  subject.  nal  companies  of  ordonnance  raised  by

2  Muratori,  Dissert.  26.  Charles  VI.  amounted  to  nine  thousand

3  Ammirato,  1st.  Kiorent.  p.  159.    The  cavalry.    But  in  Italy  the  number  was
•ame  was  done  in  129",  p.  200.     A.  lance,  smaller.     We  read  frequently  of  barbuti,
<n  the  technical  language  of  those  ages,  which  are  denned  lanze  de  due  cavalli.
Included  the  lighter  cavalry  attached  to  Corio,   p.   437.     Lances  of  three  horses
the  man-at-arms  as  well  as  himself.     In  were  introduced  about  the  middle  of  th»
Jfrance  the  full  complement  of  a  lance  fourteenth  century. — Id.  p.  466.
(lance  fournie)  was  five  or  six  horses ;  thus

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