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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

Englande be verye excellent shoters and the best bowmen in warre This sentence whether Crinitus wrote it more leudly of ignoraunce or Textor confirmeth it more piuyshlye of enuye may be called in question and doubte but this surelye do I knowe very well that Textor hath both red in Gagu●us the Frenche hystorie and also hath hearde his father or graundfather taulke except perchaūce he was borne and bred in a Cloyster after that sort of the shotynge of Englisshe men that Textor neded not to haue gone so piuishlye beyonde Englande for shoting but myght very soone euē in the first towne of kent haue founde suche plentie of shotinge as is not in al the realme of Scotland agayne The Scottes surely be good men of warre in theyr owne feate as can be but as for shotinge they neyther can vse it for any profyte nor yet wil chalēge it for any prayse although master Textor of his gētlenesse wold gyue it them Textor neaded not to haue fylled vppe his booke with suche lyes if he hadde read the storye of Scotlande 〈…〉 M● ● whiche Ioannes Maior doeth wryte wherein he myghte haue learned that when Iames Stewart fyrst kyng of that name at the Parliamēt holden at Saynt Iohnnes towne or Perthie commaunded vnder payne of a great forfyte that euerye Scotte shoulde learne to shote yet neyther the loue of theyr coūtrie the feare of their enemies the auoydyng of punishment nor the receyuinge of anye profyte that myght come by it coulde make them to be good Archers whiche be vnapte and vnfytte thervnto by Gods prouidence and nature Therfore the Scottes them selues proue Textor a lyer bothe with authoritie and also daily experience and by a certayne Prouerbe that they haue amonges them in theyr cōmunication wherby they gyue the whole prayse of shotynge honestlye to Englysihe men saying thus that euery Englysihe Archer beareth vnder his gyrdle .xxiiii. Scottes But to lette Textor and the Scottes go yet one thynge woulde I wysshe for the Scottes and that is this that seinge one God one faythe one compasse of the see one lande and countrie one tungue in speakynge one maner and trade in lyuynge lyke courage and stomake in war lyke quicknesse of witte to learning hath made Englande and Scotlande bothe one they wolde suffre them no longer to be two but cleane gyueouer the Pope which seketh none other thinge as many a noble and wyse Scottish man doth knowe but to fede vp dissention parties betwixt them vs procuryng that thynge to be two which God nature and reason wold haue one Howe profytable suche an attonement were for Scotlande Iohn 〈…〉 both Iohānes Maior and Ector Boetius which wrote the Scottes Chronicles do tell also all the gentlemen of Scotlande with the poore cōmunaltie do wel knowe So that there is nothing that stoppeth this matter saue onelye a fewe freers and suche lyke whiche with the dregges of our Englysh Papi strie lurkyng now amonges them study nothing els but to brewe battell and stryfe betwixte both the people Wherby onely they hope to maynetayne theyr Papisticall kyngdome to the destrution of the noble blood of Scotlande that then they maye with authoritie do that whiche neither noble man nor poore man in Scotlande yet doeth knowe And as for Scottishe men and Englishe men be not enemyes by nature but by custome not by our good wyll but by theyr owne follye whiche shoulde take more honour in being coupled Englande then we shulde take profite in being ioyned to Scotlande Wales being headye and rebelling many yeares agaynst vs laye wylde vntylled vnhabited without lawe iustice ciuilitie and ordre and then was amōges them more stealing thā true dealing more suretie for them that studyed to be noughte then quyetnesse for them that laboured to be good when nowe thanked be God and noble Englande there is no countrie better inhabited more ciuile more diligent in honest craftes to get bothe true and plentifull lyuynge withall And this felicitie my mynde gyueth me within these few dayes shal chaūce also to Scotlande by the godly wysedome of oure mooste noble Prince kynge Henrye the .viii. by whome God hath wrought more wonderfull thynges then euer by any prince before as banishing the byshop of Rome and herisie bringyng to light god his worde and veritie establishing suche iustice and equitie through euery parte of this his realme as neuer was sene afore To suche a Prince of suche a wysdome God hath reserued this mooste noble attonement wherby neither we shal be any more troubled nor the S●ottes with their best countries any more destroyed nor y● see whiche God ordeyneth profytable for both shall from eyther be any more stopped to the great quietnesse wealth felicitie of all the people dwellynge in this I le to the high renoume prayse of our moost noble kyng to the feare of all maner of nacions that owe ill wyll to either countrie to the hygh pleasure of God which as he is one and hateth al diuision so is he best of all pleased to se thinges which be wyde and amysse brought to peace and attonement But Textor I beshrowe him hath almooste broughte vs from our cōmunicatiō of shoting Now sir by my iudgement the Artillarie of Englande farre excedeth all other realmes but yet one thing I doubt longe haue surely in that point doubted whē or by whom shotyng was first brought in to Englande for the same purpose as I was ones in companye wyth syr Thomas Eliot knight which surelie for his lerning in all kynde of knowlege bringeth much worshyp to all the nobilite of Englande I was so bould to aske hym yf he at any tyme had marked any thing as cōcernynge the bryngynge in of shootynge in to Englande he aunswered me gentlye agayne that he had a worcke in hand which he nameth De rebus memora bilibus Anglie which I trust we shal se in print shortlye and for the accomplyshmente of that boke he had read perused ouer many olde monumētes of Englande and in sekyng for that purpose he marked this of shootynge in an excedyng olde cronicle the which had no name that what tyme as the Saxons came first into this realme in kyng Uortigers dayes whē they had bene here a whyle and at last began to faull out with the Brittons they troubled and subdewed the Brittons wyth nothynge so much as with theyr bowe and shaftes whiche wepon beynge straunge not sene here before was wonderfull terrible vnto them and this beginninge I can thynke verie well to be true But nowas concerning many exāples for the prayse of English archers in warre surely I wil not belong in a matter y● no mā doubteth in those few y● I wil name shal either be proued by y● histories of our enemies or els done by men that now liue Kynge Edward the thirde at the battel of Cressie ageinst Philip y● Frēche king as ●aguinus the frēch Historiographer plainlye doeth tell slewe that daye all the nobilite of Fraunce onlye wyth hys archers Such lyke battel also fought y● noble black prince Edward

beside Poeters where Iohn y● french king with hys sonne in a maner al y● peres of Fraūce were taken beside .xxx. M. which that daye were ●layue verie few Englyshe men by reason of theyr bowes Kynge Henrie the fifte a prince pereles and moste vyctoriouse conqueroure of all that euer dyed yet in this parte of the world at the battel of Dagin court with .vii. M. fyghtynge men and yet many of them sycke beynge suche Archers as the Cronycle sayeth that mooste parte of them drewe a yarde slewe all the Cheualrie of Fraunce to the nomber of XL. M. and moo and lost not paste .xxvi. Englysshe men The bloudye Ciuil warre of England betwixt the house of Yorke and Lancaster where shaftes flewe of bothe sydes to the destruction of mannye a yoman of Englande whome foreine battell coulde neuer haue subdewed bothe I wyll passe ouer for the pyttyefulnesse of it and yet maye we hyghelye prayse GOD in the remembraunce of it seynge he of hys prouydence hathe so knytte to gether those .ii. noble houses with so noble and pleasunte a flowre The excellent prince Thomas Hawarde nowe Duke of Northfolk for whose good prosperite with al his noble familie al English hertes dayly doth pray with bowmē of England slew kyng Iamie with many a noble Scot euē brāt agēst Flodō hil in which battel y● stoute archers of Cheshire Lanchasshire for one day bestowed to y● death for their price coūtry sake hath gotten immortall name and prayse for euer The feare onely of Englysh Archers hathe done more wonderfull thinges than euer I redde in anye historye greke or latin and moost wonderfull of all now of late beside Carlile betwixt Eske and Leuen at Sandy sikes where the hoole nobilite of Scotlande for fere of the Archers of Englonde next the stroke of God as both Englysh men and Scotyshe men that were present hath toulde me were drowened and taken prisoners Nor that noble acte also whyche althoughe it be almost iost by tyme commeth not behynd in worthinesse whyc●e my synguler good frende and Master Sir William ●algraue and Sir George Somerset dyd with a few Archers to y● number as it is sayd of .xvi. at the Turne pike besyde Hāmes where they turned with so fewe Archers so many Frenchemen to flight and turned so many oute of theyr Iackes whych turne turned all fraunce to shame reproche and those .ii. noble Knightes to perpetuall prayse fame And thus you se Philologe in al contries Asia Aphrike and Europe in Inde Aethiop Aegypt Iurie Parthia Persia Grece and Italie Schythia Turkey and Englande from the begynninge of the world euen to thys daye that shotynge hath had the cheife stroke in warre PHI. These examples surelye apte for the prayse of shotynge I not feyned by poetes but proued by trewe histories distinct by tyme and order hath delyted me excedyng muche but yet me thynke that all thys prayse belongeth to stronge shootynge and drawynge of myghtye bowes not to prickyng and nere shotinge for which cause you and many other bothe loue vse shootyng TOX. Euer more Philologe you wyl haue some ouertwhart reson to drawe forthe more communication with all but neuerthelesse you shall perceaue if you wyl that vse of prickyng and desyre of nere shootynge at home are the onelye causes of stronge shootyng in warre and why for you se that the strongest men do not drawe alwayes the strongest shoote whiche thyng prouethe that drawinge stronge liethe not so muche in the strength of man as in the vse of shotyng And experience teacheth the same in other thynges for you shal se a weake smithe whiche wyl wyth a lipe and turnyng of his arme take vp a barre of yron y● another man thrise as stronge can not stirre And a strong man not vsed to shote hath his armes breste and shoulders and other partes wherwith he shuld drawe stronglye one hindering and stoppinge an other euen as a dosen stronge horses not vsed to the carte lettes troubles one another And so the more stronge man not vsed to shoote shootes moost vnhāsumlye but yet if a strong man with vse of shooting coulde applye all the partes of hys bodye togyther to theyr moost strengthe than should he both drawe stronger than other and also shoote better than other But nowe a stronge man not vsed to shoote at a girde can heue vp plucke in sūder many a good bowe as wild horses at a brunte doth race pluck in peces many a stronge carte And thus strong mē without vse can do nothynge in shoting to any purpose neither in warre nor peace but if they happen to shoote yet they haue done within a shoote or two when a weake man that is vsed to shoote shal serue for all tymes and purposes and shall shoote .x. shaftes agaynst the others .iiii. drawe them vp to the poynte euerye tyme and shoote them to the mooste aduauntage drawyng and withdrawing his shafte when he list marky ●ge at one man yet let driuyng at an other man whiche thynges in a set battayle although a man shal not alwayes vse yet in bickerynges and at ouerthwarte meatinges when fewe archers be togyther they do moste good of all Agayne he that is not vsed to shoote shall euermore with vntowardnesse of houldynge his bowe nockynge his shafte not lookyng to his stryng betyme put his bowe alwayes in ieoperdy of breakynge than he were better to be at home moreouer he shal shoote very fewe shaftes and those full vnhandsum lye some not halfe drawen some to hygh and some to lowe nor he can not driue a shoote at a tyme nor stoppe a shoote at a neede but oute muste it and verye ofte to euel profe PHI. And that is best I trow in war to let it go and not to stoppe it TOX. No not so but somtyme to houlde a shafte at the heade whyche if they be but few archers doth more good with the feare of it than it shoulde do if it were shot with the stroke of it PHI. That is a wonder to me y● the feare of a displeasure shoulde do more harme than the displeasure it selfe TOX. Yes ye knowe that a man whiche fereth to be banyshed out of hys cuntrye can neyther be mery eate drynke nor sleape for feare yet when he is banished in dede he slepeth and eateth as well as any other And many menne doubtyng and fearyng whether they shoulde dye or no euen for verye feare of deathe preuenteth them selfe with a more bytter deathe then the other death shoulde haue bene in deade And thus feare is euer worse than the thynge feared ●irl p●d 3. as is pratelye proued by the communication of Cyrus and Tigranes the kynges sunne of Armenie in Xenophou PHI. I grante Toxophile that vse of shotyng maketh a man drawe strong to shoote at most aduauntage to