[178] See above, pp. [127–128] and [130].
[179] See above, pp. [131–132].
[180] Formerly it was supposed that gunpowder helped to decide the battle in favor of the English, but if siege guns, which were already beginning to be used, were employed at all they were too crude and the charges too light to do much damage. For some generations to come the bow and arrow held its own; it was not until the sixteenth century that gunpowder came to be commonly and effectively used in battles.
[181] For the account of Crécy by Froissart, the celebrated historian of the fourteenth century, see [Readings], Chapter XX.
[182] See above, pp. [131–132].
[183] Reference, Adams, Growth of the French Nation, pp. 116–123.
[184] For an example of the Statutes of Laborers, see Translations and Reprints, Vol. II, No. 5, and Lee, Source-book of English History, pp. 206–208.
[185] For extracts, see [Readings], Chapter XX.