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and feast day, and Latimer, in one of his sermons, tells of the 
care his Father took in instructing him, and praised it as a goodly 
art, a wholesome kind of exercise and much commended as 
_ Physic. The bows were rubbed with wax, resin and tallow and 
_ kept in waxed cloth covers, and each bow had three good hempen 
_ strings. 
Every archer carried 16 heavy and 8 light arrows, made of 
, hazel, Turkeywood, fustic, alder, beech, black thorn, elder, 
sallow. The best of birch, oak, ash, service or hornbeam. The 
heavy arrows effective at 240 yards, the lighter ones at a longer 
_ distance. 
On November toth, 1 595, Sir John Brockett writes to Lord 
 Burghley— 
_ “T have come to London to receive directions touching the 
supple of the trained bands. 
_ “Some of our best armour has been employed in foreign 
‘service and some with scouring and evil keeping grown un- 
serviceable, many who found armour are dead and others removed 
and such as occupy their places being farmers and paying high 
rents are not able to find any, thereupon suit was made for 
abatement of ro in every 100, when we would supply all their 
wants, make the lands better and stronger than ever, change the 
bows into musketts and calivers and of the 4o bills in every band 
urn half into pikes.” 
_ This suggestion seems to have been adopted, but all persons 
having charge of horse bands were required to see “they are 
cept in stables.” 
_ At the commencement of the 16th century, the armour of the 
foot soldiers was bows, bills, halberds, partizans, swordes, pikes, 
cross bows, and arquebuses. The bows for a soldier were 
required to be of yew, and for every yew bow the Bowyer had to. 
make four bows of Ash or Elm. The ancient English Bill 
consisted of a broad hook shaped blade having a short pike at 
the back, and another at the summit attached to a long handle 
