The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England / Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

by Joseph Strutt

[ [280] Nichol. Trivet. Annal.

[ [281] See Manners and Customs of the English, vol. i.

[ [282] Serres, and also most of our own historians. Froissart praises the skill of the Genoese cross-bowmen upon another occasion, saying, "They shot so surely, that lightly they myst not of their level." Vol. iv. chap. 38. fol. 47. English translation, [by Lord Berners,] and in several other places.

[ [283] Ascham's Toxophilus.

[ [284] 2 B. vii.

[ [285] 19 C. viii. dated 1496.

[ [286] Stat. 29 Hen. VII. A. D. 1508.

[ [287] Stat. 6 Hen. VIII. cap. 13.

[ [288] Stat. 25 Hen. VIII. cap. 17.

[ [289] History of London, book ii. p. 482.