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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
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art of the educa-tion of a young man who wished to distinguishhimself. Rbgents Park.) THE PRACTICE OF ARCHERY. 277 Notwithstanding the advantages of the practiceof archery, it seems to have been neglected, evenwhen the glory of the English archers was at itsgreatest height, in the reign of Edward IH., for wefind a letter from that monarch to the sheriffs ofLondon, declaring that the skill in shooting witharrows was almost totally laid aside for the pursuitof various useless and unlawful games; he there-fore commands them to prevent such idle practices the reign of Henry VHI., three several Acts weremade for promoting the practice of shooting withthe long bow ; yet, notwithstanding the interferenceof the Legislature in its favour, archery graduallydeclined, and at the end of the seventeenth centurywas nearly, if not altogether, discontinued. An author in the time of Queen Elizabeth in-forms us that it -was necessary the archer shouldhave a bracer, or close sleeve, to lace upon the left
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THE I,OTANICAL GARDE.NS, REGENts PARK. (See page 279.) within the City and liberties of London, and to seethat the leisure time upon holidays was spent in re-creations with bows and arrows. In the fifth yearof Edward IV., an ordinance was made, command-ing every Englishman and Irishman dwelling inEngland to have a long bow of his own height; theAct directs that butts should be made in every town-ship, at which the inhabitants were to shoot up anddown upon all feast days, under the penalty of onehalfpenny for every time they omitted to performthis exercise. In the sixteenth century we findheavy complaints of the disuse of the long bow,especially in the vicinity of London. Stow attri-butes this to the enclosures made near the metro-poUs, by which means the citizens were deprivedof room sufficient or proper for the purpose. In216 arm ; this bracer was to be made of materialssufficiently rigid to prevent any folds that mightimpede the bow-string when loosed from the hand ;to this was to b

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