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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