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A66948 The bow-mans glory, or, Archery revived giving an account of the many signal favours vouchsafed to archers and archery by those renowned monarchs, King Henry VIII, James, and Charles I, as by their several gracious commissions here recited may appear : with a brief relation of the manner of the archers marching on several days of solemnity / published by William Wood ... Wood, William, Sir, 1609-1691. 1682 (1682) Wing W3416; ESTC R22583 29,211 98

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