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A History of the County of Oxford
… for 6 sheaves of arrows and the servicing of the city's archery equipment, and there were similar admissions of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… affray, the playing of unlawful games, failure to practise archery, keep a rook net, wear statutory caps, and repair …
Middlesex county records
… the deaths from misadventure (including fatal accidents at archery-practice) are curious and coloured with historic …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… that every strong and able bodied person should practise archery because the defence of this land relies heavily on …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… anxieties about the perceived failure of men to keep up archery practice. Where it had earlier been blamed on a … realm have been virtuously employed in the practice of archery, whereby and under the protection of Almighty God … would at reasonable and necessary times use and practise archery, it is now the case that bowyers here in every part …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… yeomen and other commoners have occupied themselves with archery for their amusement and sport with bows made of yew brought into this your realm, which archery thus exercised and used in the past has been an … some at 6s. 8d., and some at 5s., that the said pursuit of archery is thus discontinued and almost abandoned, and the …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… than it was before artillery was known, when England by archery always gained. But now France being almost thrice as …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… several noblemen assembled at Stutgard, on account of an archery match which was proclaimed, the prizes of which were …