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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 proâ—â—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 theÌ„ 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 desceÌ„t

ABRIEFE 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 HEB DDIM HEB DDIEV AT LONDON Printed by Richard Iohnes at the Rose and Crowne next aboue S. Andrewes Church in Holburne 1596. To the Nobilitie and GenTLEMEN OF ENGLANDE The Companies of Bowyers and Fletchers wish encrease of Honour continuall health and all happinesse MAy it please your good Lordships the wor thie minded Gentlemen of England in all humilitie to giue vs leaue to remember you of the ancient honor whereby many forrein Nations but espe ciallie this Realme of England hath benlong holden famous for victories atchieued vnder the conduct of their right prudent valiant Princes Captaines by the wonderful effect of Archerie to deplore vnto your honors and wisdoms the discoÌ„tinuance yea almost the vtter extirpation therof within this Realm And withal our own miserable estates who with many other poore Artificers that haue had their maintenance therby are in great nomber brought to vtter ruyn and decaie In the rowme wherof is crept in the noysome vse of vnthriftie vnlawful Games Wherfore to stirre vp in your honors and worthinesse a due commisseration of these great mischiefes we haue caused this Abstract to be taken out of former Writers and from right credible and true Reportes Not intending heereby to insinuate to our selues any such fauour or reliefe within this Common-wealth for our priuate auaile as to innouate any supperfluous thing or to driue the same to any charge at al vnlesse the quallytie of the Subiect whereof we intreat shal in your graue discrescions be adiudged to be worthie therof more for the honor sauegard of her Royall Maiestie her knigdoms and dominions then for our priuat regard For if in your iudgements the Examples and Reasons in this Briefe contained shal not be holden of waight and momentworthie the preferment of Archetie then shal we be pleased rather to sincke in our owne miseries then to become vnprofitablie burthenous to our Prince and Countrey And therfore do wee humblie intreate that we maie bee with sauour permitted to propose the same to your Honours and Wisedomes to th' ende that if they shall seeme forcible and worthie your considerations it wold then please you with a fauorable zeale to further those proceedings her Royall Maiestie hath and shall take for our reliefe herein which is that by your good endeuours her Maiesties forward Subiects in the exercise of Archerie maie be cherished obstinat persoÌ„s refusing to be reformed disposing theÌ„selues rather to practise vnlawfull Games may be chastned corrected according to the forme of the laudable lawes in that behalfe made prouided nor is it our meaning to derogate from the reputation of the vse or excellence of any other strong or approoued weapons fit for the wars be they of fire or others such as your wisdomes counselles haue prouided to be had ordained but that both not compared togither whither should in all respects be better then the other but so ioyned together that the one should bee an aide helpe for the other might so strengthen the Realme on al sides in their seuerall natures that not any Nation may become dangerous vnto vs nor we disarme ourselues of that weapon wher in God Nature hath made vs excell and whereby we haue euer ben preualent ouer al our enemies For by the Supplie to be made by Archrie amongst the greatest nomber of persons which if any present need shuld require could not be furnished with other warlike munition both for want of abilitie also by reason it can not wel be had for so many as ther be able men to serue with the same it wil fal out that noe fit persons will be founde naked or vnprofitable be the accidentes of Warre neuer so suddaine Of the want wherof we haue heard men of good Iudgement latelie complaine in respect of the late petie incursion made by the Enemie vpon the Sea-coast in the Countie of CORNWAL Wherfore it may please your Honours and Wisdomes to accept of our good intents though we be of the meanest sort of her Highnesse Subiects who do not so much herein pretend our owne prefermentes or aduauntages as the aduauncement of the Honour of this Realme whiche hath shoane bright in your noble Auncestors by their manifould Conquestes famouslie atchieued especiallie by vertue of this Weapon And we shall deuotely praie to God that that Fame and Honour may redouble vpon your selues yours in this time of her Maiesties most happie raigne and so successiuelie for euer Certen Collections out of ancient and Moderne Writers proouing the necessitie and excellence of the vse of Archerie Deuided into three partes vz. I. That the vse of Archerie is a most auncient and noble Exercise And that for Princes and great men it is a most faire and honourable Practise II. That it is most necessarie for the Subiects to vse the same both in peace and warre III. And for Battelles and victories in the field whervpon our Nation void of strong Townes doth speciallie repose it selfe Archerie to be of farre greater effect then anie other weapon that euer was inuented And that in respect therof onclie this Realme of England hath been euer feared and honored of all Nations The first Part. PLATO Calimachus and Galene very noble writers bring the inuention of shooting from Apollo for the which cause Shooting is highly praised of Galen in his booke of Exhortation to good Artes where hee saith that meane craftes be first sonnde out by men or beastes as weauing by a Spyder c. But high and commendable Sciences by Goddes as Shooting and Musicke by Apollo And if wee shall beleeue Nicholas de Lyra Lamech killed Caine with a Shast Cyaxares the king of the Medes and great grandfather to Cyrus kept a sort of Scythians with him only for this purpose to teach his son Astiages to shoot Cyrus being a child was brought vp in shooting which Xenephon wold neuer haue made meÌ„tion of except it had been fit for Princes to haue vsed seeing that Xenephon wrote Cyrus life as Tullie sayth not to shewe what Cyrus did but what all manner of Princes both in pastimes earnest matters ought to doe Darius the first king of Persia of that name shewed playnlie how fit it is for a king to loue and vse Shooting who coÌ„manded this sentence to be written on his tombe for a princely memory and praise Darius the King lyeth buried heere That in Shooting and riding had no peere Herodian his opinion of Commodus the Emperour was that he had no Princely thing in him but strength of bodie and good Shooting Themistius the noble Philosopher in an Oration made to Theodosius the Emperour coÌ„mendeth him for three things that hee vsed of a Childe Shooting Riding of a horse well and feates of Armes It is most manifest in the histories of

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