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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

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 KING JAMES And KING 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 Marshal to the Regiment of Archers London Printed by S. R. and are to be Sold by Edward Gough at Cow-Cross 1682. To the most POTENT MONARCH CHARLES II. KING OF England Scotland France and Ireland c. May it please your Majesty THE Credit and Esteem that ARCHE hath always had amongst your Royal Ancestors makes me presume to Dedicate to your Majesty this little Treatise which was almost lost in the Ruins of Time as well as the Subject Matter of it I must confess indeed that this Art or Exercise holds not the same Rank and Place in Military Discipline that it did before the Invention of Guns but yet to assign it none at all were 〈◊〉 reflect upon the Prudence and Consideration of those Laws that have since that Time been made for its Encouragement And methinks that the many Victories which our Kingdom famous for their Bows owes to that sort of Arms may at least recommend the Exercise to us though it be but in Sport and Triumph Besides we are sure the Labour will not be wholly lost if there were no Pleasure in it it being it may be one of the most wholsom and manly Recreations us'd in this Nation and Conduces as much or more than other both to the Preservation of Health and the Improvement of Strength But I fear I am unmannerly your Majesty knows better than any body else both the Usefulness and Pleasure of the Bow and we were unjust to distrust your Countenancing it Long may we live under the Government of so good a Prince and may this and all other worthy Exercises fit and qualifie your Majesties Subjects to Defend your Crown and Dignity This is the Prayer of Your Majesties most Humble and Dutiful Subject and Servant William Wood. To the Honourable Sir John Ernley Knight one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council and one of the Lords Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury Sir Edward Hungerford Knight of the Bath Sir Gilbert Talbot Knight and Sir Joseph Williamson Knight FOR me that am so Unlearned and Ignorant to speak of the Antiquity and Worth of Archery were a great weakness for I find it to be almost as old as Adam For in Holy Writ Gen. 21. 20. it is said That God was with Ishmael and he became an Archer And for the fierceness of the Bow and Arrow Gods Vengeance is sometime in Scripture compared to it But to come nearer home and to speak of one or two of those great Victories that have been obtained against the Enemies of England by Archers As for Instance first the Battel of Cressy in France in the Reign of Edward the Third where he himself in Person with the Black Prince his Son with an Army of Ten thousand Archers overthrew and vanquished his Enemy Philip King of France and his Army consisting of near One hundred thousand Men in which Battel were Thirty thousand slain See the Story more at large in Baker's Chronicle pag. 124 and 125. But this is not all the harm that Archery hath done to our Enemies nor honour it hath won to our selves for in the Year 1415. in the Reign of Henry the Fifth there was at Agincourt in the Territories of France such a Victory obtained over the French by the help of the Archers that can scarce if ever be parallel'd in any History where a considerable Number of Archers under the Command of Sir William Orpington who with an Ambush of no more than Two hundred Archers gave the first Onset which take in Sir Rich. Baker's own words Causing the Bow-men to let fly their Arrows which so gawled the French Horse that either they cast their Riders or through their unruliness so opened their Ranks that the right Wing of the English Horse had way to come in upon the French Foot The English Army being in Number not above Nine thousand and the French six times nay some say ten times as many in Number The Number of the French slain was above Ten thousand whereof One hundred twenty six were of the Nobility bearing Banners of Knights and Gentlemen Seven thousand eight hundred seventy four and of Common Souldiers about One thousand six hundred with a very small damage to the English as may be seen at large pag. 175. in Sir Richard Baker It were endless to recount what great Battels have been obtained by the help of the Archers and what high Esteem the Turks have of it to this day I 'le refer you to Travellers and Historians more particularly to that Ingenious Book of Sir Paul Rycaut in his History of the Turks and 't is much to be lamented that those Weapons by which our Ancestors gain'd so much Renown should now be almost totally laid aside save only by your Honours and those Gentlemen that use it for their Health and Recreation But we hope this drawing forth may be a means to increase and add to the Number of those that love Archery which is the hearty Desire and Prayer of Gentlemen Your most humble and obedient Servant William Wood. In Praise of Archery BRave Archery what Rapture shall I raise In giving thee thy merit and due praise Divine thou art as from the Gods begot Apollo with an Arrow Python Shot And Cupid the fair Venus son we know Is always figur'd with his Shafts and Bow The chast Diana with her Nymphs in chase Will with no other Arms their shoulders grace A mighty Bow the great Alcides drew When he to save his Bride the Centaur slew It is the powerful Hand of Heaven that bends The all-colour'd Rainbow that so far extends Before the Tormentary art was found The jarring string did make the dreadfull'st sound And that invulner'd Greek unscar'd by steel Was shot and slain by Paris in the heel The naked Indian doth no Armor lack His Bow being bent and Quiver at his back And the wild Tartar doth no danger fear His Arrow nocht String drawn to his Ear. The Parthian in this practise hath such skill That when he flies he can Shoot back kill For us what forraign Chronicles but sing Our Honours purchast by the Gray-goose wing Brave Cordelion with feathered Band Beat the proud Sultan from the Holy-land And what an Honour did the Black Prince gain When He with English Archers conquered Spain So Ancient so Divine so Nobly fam'd Yet for the Bodie 's health there 's nothing nam'd It is an Exercise by proof we see Whose practice doth with nature best agree Obstructions of the Liver it prevents Stretching the Nerves and Arteries gives extents To the Spleens oppilations clears the Brest And spungy Lungs It is a Foe

Archery and Artillery within this our Realme of England whereby the same being put in due execution in tymes past hathe not onlie bredd and encreased a greate force and strength towards the mayntenaunce defence and safety of this our said Realme against Forein Powers but also a feare and terror to all other Realms and Forein Enemies in tymes of Warr and Hostility Yet the same good Statutes Ordynances and Proclamations made by vs and our said noble Progenitors cannot nowe so well take place as they ought and haue done in tymes past and specially about our Citty of London by reason that diuerse and sundry persons having about our said Citty of London diuerse Landes Tenements and Hereditaments and saeking to enclose the same otherwise then hathe bine accustomed to the advancement of their owne singuler benefitts and gaine without respect of others Commoditie haue pluckt away and yet still do mind to pluck away from our lovinge Subiects the necessarie and proffitable Exercise of shooting in such Feilds and ●loses as tyme out of mynde haue bine allowed to be shott in aswell by making of such Bankes and Hedges as also by plucking up of the oulde Marks of ancyent tyme standing in the said Closes Insomuch that our said Subiects being in the common Feilds and for diuersities and change of Markes séeking to finde a Marke in the said Closes and seuerall Grounds cannot by reason for the most parte the Banckes and Hedges beinge made of such a height sae the Grounds of the said Closes or Feilds within the said Banckes As also by reason that where the Bancke or Hedge beinge but of indifferent height the Ditches be made so broad and déep and wanting Bridges and other convenient Places to passe through and over the same that our said Subiects the Archers vsing their Trade and Pastime be very much hind●e● lett and discoraged therein and often tymes in great perill and danger for la●ke of convenient roomes and places to ●hoote in And as we are ●redibly informed by reason of the aforesaid Ditching He●ging and Enclosures it ys verie like there will grow a verie greate straight and want of roome about our said Citty of London aswell for such as doe presently vse the said game of shooting as also for those that shall hereafter exercise vse or occupie the said Game and Pastime to the greate hi●drance and decay aswell of the said vse and exercise of shooting as also of the said Statutes Ordynances Prouisions and Proclamations and contrarie to the ancyent Customes heretofore vsed about our said Citty of London whereby might ensue to sundrie of our said Subiects occasion to haunt and frequent some other kynde of vnlawfull Games wherevnto there are to many inclined which our meanynge ys shal be in no wise suffered For avoydinge whereof and for reformation of the foresaid inormityes and of all such other as might hereafter growe by reason of takinge away of the libertie and scope of ancyent tyme accustomed to be had about our said Citty of London for Archers And trusting to your approved Wisdomes Fidelityes and good Discrecions We haue assigned and appointed you to be our Commissioners and by theis Presents doe giue vnto you and everie of you and to the number of any sixe of you full power and authoritie not onlie to survey all such Groundes next adjoyning to out said Citty of London and the Suburbs of the same and within twoe miles compasse on any parte of our said Citty and Subu●bes as before haue bine accustomed and vsed to haue had Markes in them for Archers to shoot at or which any of our lovinge S 〈…〉 iects or of our Auncestors haue exercised themselves in shooting and the same to reduce or cause to be reduced to such order and estate for Archers as they were in the beginnyng of the Raigne of the late Kinge of famous memorie Kinge Henry the Eight but also calling before you or any six of you as well the Owner and Owners Fermor and Fermors and Occupiers of such Grounds about our Citty of London In which since the first yeare of the Raigne of the said Kinge Henry the Eight haue bine made any broad déep Ditches hight Banckes and Quicksets or Hedges thereupon beinge thought by you or any sixe of you to be overthrown and made plain or otherwise to be reformed And also such and as many honest and lawfull men of our said Citty of London or Countie of Middlesex or either of them whose disposition knowledge and experience in the Premisses or any part thereof you shall thinke good to vnderstand and know And you and every of you to examine aswell upon their Oathes as otherwyse touching the Premisses as to the Wisdomes of you or any sixe of you shall be thought most convenient And upon the knowledge of the defalts and annoyances in the Premisses or any parte thereof Oure pleasure ys and We give vnto you or any sixe of you full power and aucthority by theis Presents to cause the same to be by the said Owner and Owners Fermor and Fermors or any Occupiers at their own proper Cos●es and Charges to be amended reformed altred and exchanged in such maner and forme and within such tyme as to the Wisedomes and Discretions of you or any sixe of you shall be thought méete and convenyend whome our pleasure and commandement ys that whatsoever shal be in and about the Premisses d●●n and executed by you or any sixe of you by vertue and aucthority of this our Commission you cause the same firmely to be observed Aucthorising you or any sixe of you further by theis Presents That all such person or persons being Owner or Owners Fermor or Fermors Occupier or Occupiers of the said Grounds or any of them as you or any sixe of you shall finde negligent gay●saying rebelling resisting or any mean or way in any wise notwithstanding against you or any sixe of you in the due execution thereof or not oueying your Orders or Decrées in the Premisses to be had or made by vertue of theis Presents That you or any sixe of you cause him or them offending to be punished or ●ayned by Imprisonment or otherwise by Fine and Amercement to our vse as by your said Wisdomes shal be thought requi●te vntill he or th●y shall conforme him or themselves to your Order in the Premisses And for the better execution of this ou● said Commission and Aucthority to you given We charge and command all Ma●ors Sh●riffs Justices of P●a●● Bayliffs stables and all other our Officers Ministers and Subiects to be ay●ing helping and assisting you and everi● of you in the due execution thereof as they will aunswere to the contrarie In witnes whereof we haue caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witnes our self at Westminster the firste Daie of February in the thirde yeare of our ●aigne of England Fraunce and Ireland and of Scotland the nine and thirtieth THE PATENT OF King CHARLES I. Concerning ARCHERIE CHARLES by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and