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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
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