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 140
15. Manner of holding the Slino. Sometimes the sling- is attached to a staff or truncheon, aboutthree or four feet in length, wielded with both hands, and chargedwith a stone of no small magnitude. These slings appear tonave been chiefly used in besieging of cities, and on board ofships in… … 16. Slings op Warfare. III.—SLINGING BY THE ANGLO-NORMANS.We have sufficient testimony to prove that men armed withslings formed a part of the Anglo-Norman soldiery,^ and theword Balistarii, used by our early historians, may, I doubt not,be more properly rendered slingers than cross-bowmen;…
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