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A22011 Toxophilus the schole of shootinge contayned in tvvo bookes. To all gentlemen and yomen of Englande, pleasaunte for theyr pastyme to rede, and profitable for theyr use to folow, both in war and peace ... Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568. 1545 (1545) STC 837; ESTC S104391 106,118 194

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