A History of the British Army, Vol. 1 / First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War

by Sir J. W. Fortescue

[102] Ibid. vol. iii. part i. p. 402.

[103] At the meeting with Francis and Charles V. Henry took for his device an English archer in a green coat drawing an arrow to the head (Camden).

[104] Cal. S. P., Henry VIII., vol. iii. part i. 869.

[105] Ibid. vol. iii. part ii. 2012, 2013.

[106] Ibid. 2995.

[107] In the original lontes. Lunt was the Scotch name for a musket-match to the end (Cal. S. P., Henry VIII., vol. iii. part i. 3494).

[108] See the armed strength of England in 1524. Ibid. vol. iv. part i. 972.

[109] Ibid. 2086.

[110] Six feet. A horse's length was reckoned at the same figure a hundred years later.

[111] State Papers (ed. 1830-1849), vol. ix. pp. 523, 524.