The inland muster at Arundel in 1545 represented the mobile reserve component of the Sussex defence against the French threat. The idea was that coastal watches would identify landing points and the mobile reserve would converge on any landed force before it could consolidate. The combination of fixed coastal defences and mobile inland reserves was the most sophisticated military thinking applied to English coastal defence up to that point.
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