Identifier: gri_33125012252157 (find matches)
Title: Glig-gamena angel-deod, or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England : including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time : illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings in which are represented most of the popular diversions
Year: 1810 (1810s)
Authors: Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802
Subjects: Sports Games
Publisher: London : Printed by T. Bensley, for White and Co. (and 7 more)
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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-ner in which the archers shot at the butts, or dead marks, a pastimefrequently alluded to by the authors of the fifteenth and sixteenth cen-turies. In the reign of Henry the Seventh the cross-bow was forbidden bylaw to be used;a and, soon after his son ascended the throne, it wasfound necessary to renew the prohibition ;b yet, notwithstanding the in-terference of the legislator, in less than twenty years afterward, the usageof cross-bows and hand-guns was so prevalent, that a new statute wasjudged necessary, which forbad the use of both, and inflicted a penaltyof ten pounds for keeping a cross-bow in the house. This severe finemight probably produce a temporary reformation ; which certainly wasnot of long continuance, for cross-bows were commonly used again in u See Aschams Treatise on Archery. * A. D. 1347. Y MS. Royal Lib. marked 2. B. vii. z MS. Royal Lib. marked 19. C. viii. dated 1496. » Stat. 29 Hen. VII. A. D. 1508. b Stat. 6 Hen. VIII. cap. 13. c Stat. 25 Hen. VIII. cap. 17.
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