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A11250	A briefe treatise, to prooue the necessitie and excellence of the vse of archerie. Abstracted out of ancient and moderne writers. By R:S. Perused, and allowed by aucthoritie	R. S., fl. 1596.	1596 (1596)	STC 21512; ESTC S116313	10,821	24

our Nation that the kings and Princes of this Realm haue bin excellent Archers And this age can witnesse with what loue and affection the right noble kings of famous memorie king Henrie the eight and Edward the sixt did vse and exercise the same in their owne persons By Shooting is the minde honorably exercised where a man alwaies desireth to bee best which is a word of honor and that by the same way that vertue it self doth coueting to come nighest a most perfect end or meane standing between two extreams eschuing short or gone or on eyther side wide For which causes Aristotle himselfe saith that Shooting and Vertue be very like And that of all other it is Aristotle de Morib the most honest pastime and least occasion to naughtinesse two things doe very plainly prooue vz Day-light and Open place If Shooting fault at any time it hides not it selfe but openly accuseth and bewraieth it selfe which is the next way to amendement as wise men doe say THE SECOND PART NOt only kinges and Emperors haue beene brought vp in shooting but also the best common Wealths that euer were haue made goodly actes laws for it as the Persians who vnder Cyrus conquered very many nations had a law that their children should learne three thinges only from fiue yeares old to twenty To ride a horse wel to shoot wel to speak trueth alwaies and neuer lie The Romans as Leo the Emperour in his booke of the sleightes of warre telleth had a law that euery man shuld vse Shooting in time of peace while he were fourty yeeres olde And that euerie house should haue a Bowe and fourty Shaftes ready for all needes The omitting of which Law saith Leo among the youth hath beene the only occasion why the Romaines lost a great deale of their Empire The firste Statute and Lawe that euer Dauid made after he was King was this that all the children of Israell shoulde learne to shoote according to a Law made many a day before that time for the setting out of Shooting as it is written saith Scripture in libro Iustorum which booke we haue not now Reg 2 1 extant Plato wold haue common Masters and stipends De Leg 7 for to teach youth to shoot And for the same purpose he would haue broad fields neere euery Citie made common for men to vse shooting in Leo the Emperour in his sixt booke Let all the youth of Rome bee compelled to vse shooting either more or lesse And alwayes to beare their bow and their quyuer about them vntill they be fourty years old For since Shooting was neglected and decayed among the Romanes many a Battell and fielde hath been lost Againe in the xi Book and 50. Chap. Let your Souldiers haue their weapons wel appointed and trimmed but aboue all other thinges regarde most shooting And therfore let men when ther is no war vse Shooting at home For the leauing off onely of Shooting hath brought ruine decay to the whole Ruin decaie to the whole Empire by leauing off of Shooting Empire of Rome After wardes hee commandeth againe his Captaines by these wordes Arme your hoast as I haue appointed you but especially with Bowe and Arrows plenty For shooting is a thing of much might power in warre and chiefly against the Saracens Turks which people haue all their hope of victorie in their Bowe and Shafts Besides all this in another place hee writeth thus to his Captaine Artillerie is easie to bee prepared and in time of great neede a thing most profitable Therefore wee straightly commaund you to make Proclamation to all men vnder our dominions either in warre or peace to all Citties Burroughes and Townes and finallye to all manner of men that euery seuerall pearson haue bowe and shaftes of his owne And euery house besides this to haue a standing bearing Bow and fourty shafts for all needes And that they exercise themselues in holtes hilles and dales playnes and woods for all maner of chaunces in warre And yet Shooting although they sett neuer so much by it was neuer so good then as it is now in England which thing to be true is verie pro●●table in that Leo doth say That he would haue his Souldiers take off their Arrowe-heads and one shoot at another for their exercise Which play if the English Archers vsed I thinke they would find small sport and lesse pleasure in it But the exercise therof otherwise bringeth a notable aduantage to them that doe practise the same For experience doth teach vs that the strongest men doe not alwayes make the strongest shoote which thing prooueth that draweing strong lyeth not so much in the strength of man as in the vse of Shooting To conclude this second part if a man shuld peruse all pastimes and exercises profitable to be set by of euery man woorthy to be rebuked of no man fit for all ages persons and places and a medicine to purge the whole land of all pestilent gaming onelie Shooting shall appeare wherein all these commodities shal be found being strengthened by putting in execution such laudable actes statutes as haue bin on that behalfe made and prouided by the Parliaments of this Realme THE THIRD PART EVripides euery of whose verses Tullie thinketh to be an Aucthoritie doth say That of all weapons the best is where with least danger of our selfe we may hurt our enemie most And that is as may bee supposed Artillerie which now adayes is taken for two thinges Gunnes and Bowes Peter Nannius a learned man of Louain in a Dialogue sheweth exceeding commodities of both And some discommodities of Gunnes as infinit cost and charge cumbersom cariage if they be great the vncertain leuelling the peril of them that stand by c. Besides al this contrary wind and weather which hindereth them not a little and sometime maketh thē vnprofitable yet of shooting he cannot reherse one discommoditie But because some sort of men at Armes would bring our Magistrates and the better sorte of our people and nation to mislike this ancient weapon as vnprofitable for the wars of our dayes wold attribute alexcellence to the Musquet and Caliuer See Sir Iohn Smyth Knight in his booke treating of Archery from fol. 20 to fol. 28. wher you may find he vtterly consuteth them proouing three especiall poyntes against them vz. 1 Archers to be most ready in the field 2 Archers to faile least in shooting 3 And that they doe anney the Enemies most be they horsemen or footmen And then after many vnreplyable reasons offereth that hee will neuer refuse with 8000. good Archers to aduenture his life against 20000. of the best shot in Christendom Where fol. 23. 27. 28. he prooueth long Bowes to be most excellent for battailes and great encounters both against horsemen and footmen for that it is a ready weapon both in faire and foule weather which shot is not that the arrowes in flying both in their descēt