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Archery.jpg Two Saxon Archers—VIII. CenturyThumbnailsFrom the François VaseTwo Saxon Archers—VIII. CenturyThumbnailsFrom the François VaseTwo Saxon Archers—VIII. CenturyThumbnailsFrom the François VaseTwo Saxon Archers—VIII. CenturyThumbnailsFrom the François VaseTwo Saxon Archers—VIII. CenturyThumbnailsFrom the François VaseTwo Saxon Archers—VIII. CenturyThumbnailsFrom the François Vase
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Of physical games archery was the most practised. This was the national physical exercise, one which had helped the English soldiers to gain a great reputation for themselves, as at Agincourt (1415). At York the "butts," where men practised archery, were outside the city walls.

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Life in a Mediæval City
Illustrated by York in the XVth Century
by Edwin Benson
Published in 1920
Available from gutenberg.org
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