Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page 223
... archers , whom Edward's commissioners of array had gathered from the northern and midland counties and forests , were trained to manoeuvre and exercise their art under orders , just as Bruce's pikesmen before Bannockburn had been ...
... archers , whom Edward's commissioners of array had gathered from the northern and midland counties and forests , were trained to manoeuvre and exercise their art under orders , just as Bruce's pikesmen before Bannockburn had been ...
Page 241
... archers and a band of minstrels - a dozen trumpeters , a clarioner , fiddler , pipers , a wait or two , a nakerer , a citole and a man playing a shawm . For their services to morale these musicians ranked as archers . 2 Running through ...
... archers and a band of minstrels - a dozen trumpeters , a clarioner , fiddler , pipers , a wait or two , a nakerer , a citole and a man playing a shawm . For their services to morale these musicians ranked as archers . 2 Running through ...
Page 249
... archers stept forth one pace and let fly their arrows so wholly together and so thick that it seemed snow . ' Firing four or five times faster than the crossbowmen , they shot them out of the field . As the Genoese broke , the French ...
... archers stept forth one pace and let fly their arrows so wholly together and so thick that it seemed snow . ' Firing four or five times faster than the crossbowmen , they shot them out of the field . As the Genoese broke , the French ...
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