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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

high Banks and Quick-sets or Hedges thereupon being thought by you or any six or more of you to be overthrowne and made plaine or otherwise to be reformed And alsoe such and as manie lawfull and honest men of our said Citty of London and County of Middlesex or either of them whose dispositions knowledge and experience in the Premisses or anie part thereof you shall think good to understand and know and them and everie of them to examine as well upon their Oathes as otherwise touching the Premisses as to the Wisdomes of you or 〈◊〉 every or anie six or more of you shall be thought more convenient And upon the knowledge of the Defaults and Annayances in the Premisses or a●ie part thereof Our pleasure is and we do give unto you or anie six or more of you full power and authoritie by these Presents to cause the same by the said Owner Farmer or Farmers or any Occupiers at their own proper Costs and Charges to be amended reformed altered and changed in such manner and form and within such time as to the wisdomes and discretions of you or any six or more of you shall be thought méete and convenient Whom our Pleasure and Commandment is that whatsoever shall be in and about the Premisses done and executed by you or any six or more of you by vertue and authoritie of this our Commission you cause firmly to be observed Authorizing you or any six or more of you further by these Presents that all such persons being Owner or Owners Farmer or Farmers Occupier or Occupiers of the said Grounds or any of them as you or any six or more of you shall find negligent gainsaying rebelling resisting or anie meane or anie way withstanding against you or any six or more of you in the due execution thereof or not obeying your Orders or Decrées in the Premisses to be had or made by vertue of theise Prsents that you or anie six or more of you cause him or them offending to be punished as by your said Wisdomes shall be thought requisite until he or they shall conforme themselves to your order in the Premisses And for the better execution of this our Commission and Authoritie by you given We charge and command all Maiors Sheriffs Justices of the Peace Bayliffs Constables and all other our Officers Ministers and Subjects to be aiding helping and assisting to you and every one of you in the due execution thereof as they will answere the contrary In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the 20th day of December in the Eighth yeare of our Raigne A REMEMBRANCE Of the worthy SHOW and SHOOTING BY THE DUKE of SHOREDITCH AND HIS ASSOCIATES THE Worshipful Citizens of London UPON Tuesday the 17th of September 1583. Set forth according to the Truth thereof to the everlasting Honour of the Game of Shooting in the Long Bow By W. M. London Printed in the Year 1682. To the Worthy SHOREDITCH DUKE And his Two NEPHEWS Sons to the EARL of PANCRIDGE AND To all the Worshipful Citizens and Chief Archers of the City of London W. H. wisheth continuance of Health with Increase of Honour BOldly have I presumed Right Worshipful Members of this Ho nourable City to publish unto the Eyes of the World your late laudable Work which not only beautified this City but the whole Realm of England Rare was the Sight great was the Cost yet greater your good Wills the Report whereof will be in memory while London lasteth Now seeing no man taketh in hand to describe the same as it deserved and pitying greatly it should lye hidden I considered that blind Bayard oft times seemeth boldest and thereupon my self though least able of all other have presumed under your Correction to publish the Truth of what I noted in the Train Therein purposing that though to your own Ears it bringeth no matter of Delight yet the Truth of this seemly Show which Fame hath far spread abroad may through this Realm be expressed as also left in Remembrance unto your Childrens Children and their Posterity after them Beseeching therefore that your Wisedomes would accept my good Will for which I remain thankful during my Life Your Worships In all Humility W. M. A REMEMBRANCE Of the Worthy SHOW and SHOOTING BY THE DUKE of SHOREDITCH AND HIS ASSOCIATES THE Worshipful Citizens of London THE Learned in time past have greatly commended the penning of Histories because that by them their Posterity is certifyed what hath been done in the days of their Ancestors the benefit whereof is greatly considered in the wisest of this Age and I would it were unknown to none Our Elders heretofore that have registred the great Battels and Skirmishes in times past mention that the Long-Bow hath done great acts and been the overthrow of mighty Armies Wherefore considering what profit and honour our Commonwealth of England hath gained by the Long-Bow I have thought convenient to set down in Memory that most honourable Show of Archers which was at London on the Seventeenth of September 1583. chiefly for two Causes First To exhort our Country men to continue at home this laudable Exercise the better to discourage our Enemies when they haply hear thereof that by so notable a thing shewed but in a Merriment may the better conjecture what English men could do if necessity compelled them to the same Secondly To follow the Custome of our Ancestors which is to leave Enrolled such Matter as is worthy Memory that so good a Work might seem new in such our Successors and procure them to the furtherance of the like Causes in themselves The Prince of famous Memory King Henry the Eighth having red in the Chronicles of England and seen in his own time how armies mixed with good Archers have evermore so galled the Enemy that it hath been great cause of the Victory he being one day at Mile-end when Prince Arthur and his Knights were there shooting did greatly commend the Game and allowed thereof lauding them to their Encouragement This noble King at another time keeping a Princely Court at Windsor caused sundry Matches to be made concerning shooting in the Long-Bow and to which came many principal Archers who being in Game and the upshoot given as all men thought there was one Barlo yet remaining to shoot being one of the King● Guard to whom the King very graciously said Win them all and thou shalt be Duke over all Archers This Barlo drew his Bow and shooting won the best Whereat the King greatly rejoiced commending him for his good Archery and for that this Barlo did dwell in Shoreditch the King named him Duke of Shoreditch A sign of a Princly mind to the encouragement of his poor subject The memory of all which both by Prince Arthur and the Duke of Shoreditch hath been greatly revived and within these five years set forward at the great Cost and Charges of sundry chief Citizens whose Names I omit And