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Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
… within the precincts appointed by the abbot and monks for archery, as a pastime, and that in shooting at the mark his …
Survey of London
… Crope is Awaye', and was used as a practice-ground for archery. 133 The northern part of the field was enclosed when …
Survey of London
… part of Leicester House until 1791. Waring had taken up archery about 1776 as a relief for 'an oppression upon his …
A History of the County of Chester
… river may well have been high, citizens were practising archery on the Roodee. 5 The name Roodee means 'the meadow … in 1540, 23 and for informal recreation of all kinds from archery in the 13th century to illegal rabbit coursing in the … Prince and his household. 25 About 1600 it was used for archery, bowls, and walks by the Dee. 26 During the …
A History of the County of Chester
… by burning. Under the Tudors there were private archery butts in the city, 8 and public shoots were held on … took the opportunity of Henry VIII's legislation promoting archery to change those customs. First, the Saddlers, instead … silver arrow valued at 5 d. or more, to be the prize in an archery competition with longbows. The feasting remained. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are card and billiard rooms. A society for the practice of archery, designated the Queen's St. Leonard's Archers, hold …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the town, in existence since the later 17th century, and archery was evidently a favourite pastime in the later 18th …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 1929. It still played on that green in the late 1980s. 61 Archery butts stood in Castle ditch in the late 17th century. … side of Beacon Street south of Wheel Lane in 1776. 64 An archery society still existed in 1824. 65 It was revived in …
Survey of London
… Photographs in possession of Mrs Jane Wainwright 373. Archery Fields House, Wharton Street, 2006. EH photograph ( …
Survey of London
… in the early years of the nineteenth century. This was an 'archery target ground', called the 'London Light Horse Target … the New River Company's West Pond reservoir (where Archery Fields House now stands), but the porticoed entrance … of council flats there, bought the site in 1937 and built Archery Fields House there. Spa Fields Church (demolished) In …