The sports and pastimes of the people of England : Including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1845)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : T. Togg · leaf 120
eir level. Vol. iv. chap. 38, fol. 47. English translation,[by Lord Bemers,] and in several other places. * Aschams Ioxophilus. CHAl*. I. OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. 53 countrymen in archery, was derived from their practice with thelong-bow: and to this instrument they gave the preference. VII.—FORM… … 11. Practising with the Cross-Bow. Below is an engraving* from a painting on another manuscriptin the Royal Library much more modern.^
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