Note 4 — EXPLANATORY LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME I.
Henry Yule translation
“
Ad terzarolos
” (
Secreta Fidelium Crucis
, p. 57). The Catalan Worthy, Ramon de Muntaner, indeed constantly denounces the practice of manning
all
the galleys with
terzaruoli
, or
tersols
, as his term is. But his reason is that these thirds-men were taken from the oar when crossbowmen were wanted, to act in that capacity, and as such they were good for nothing; the crossbowmen, he insists, should be men specially enlisted for that service and kept to that. He would have some 10 or 20 per cent. only of the fleet built very light and manned in threes. He does not seem to have contemplated oars three-banked, and crossbowmen
besides
, as Sanudo does. (See below; and
Muntaner
, pp. 288, 323, 525, etc.)
In Sanudo we have a glimpse worth noting of the word soldiers advancing towards the modern sense; he expresses a strong preference for soldati (viz. paid soldiers) over crusaders (viz. volunteers), p. 74.