The Book of Archery

Complete History and Practice of the Art

The Book of Archery – the wisdom of our Ancestors has said “Speak well of Archers for your father shot well in a bow. Yet there is a hold upon your sympathies far more powerful than a thousand wise saws or modern instances, such as these – I mean the strong propensity of youth and age for recreations which unbend the mental faculties. while the body enjoys the exhilerating influence of sun and summer breeze, which tempt us to climb up the upward lawn, plunge into the deep rocky Glyn, wander over fern clad heaths, and wend our way through the shadowy, pathless woods.

These advantages are the archer’s; his are the glories of sea, earth and sky, with all its pleasures of the young and opening year; for his past time belongs to that fair season only, when, as the old forest glee has it.

For ages anterior to the Conquest, the Inhabitants of Britain held Archrty in little estimation, except as an appliance of sylvan sport, when her chieftain’s sought relief from the tedium of domestic tranquility, by warring upon the antlered denizens of the waste.

Besides a preference for other weapons the sportsman, necessarily habituated to a bow if feeble range, grew mistrustful of its powers in more serious contests, those mightier hunting’s where the game was man.

But “Norman William” came and on the blood-stained field of Hasting’s our Saxon forefathers first learned to appreciate rightly the merit of yew bow and bearded cloth yard shaft.

A disarming general followed that event: but the haughty victor, with sound military policy, threw back these simple weapons to the vanquished of every grade.

While smarting under a sense of national degradation, the privilege to bear arms of any resort was regarded by the Saxon freeholder as a most grateful boon. It formed the line between him and the weaponless serf, who liked the soil and cattle he tilled and fed, was transferred to the higher bidder, whenever the demands of necessity or improvidence induced their owner to seek a market.

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Egyptian and Creation Implements

Early Egyptian Archers

Early Egyptian III

Grecian and Oriental IV

Grecian and Persepolitan V

Macedonian and Parthian VI

Roman Archers VII

Oriental Implements VIII

Oriental Implements Again VIII

Persian Archery IX

Chinese and Tartar X

American and African XI

African Archers XII

Oriental Archery XIII

Northern Asia XIV

South and Northern American XV

Grecian and British XVI

Saxon and Norman XVII

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