Archery (the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes) (1894)
Longman, C. J., Walrond, H. Col., Duke of Beaufort (Ed.) · Longmans, Green and Co. (London) · leaf 203
170 ARCHERY yards, it must not be understood that the ‘game’ was necessarily all shot at that distance, as after every few rounds the captain could direct an advance of ten yards nearer the target.! The records of the Finsbury Archers contain some in- teresting information with respect to the… … Fic. 113. Finsbury Archer's ticket Shield now in the possession of the Royal Toxophilite Society. In July 1676 William Wood appears to have been sent round to the Archers with a paper, signed by Sir E. Hungerford and others, stating that the ‘ Officers and others of the Society of Archers within…
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