Toxophilus: 1545

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A. Murray & son, 1868 - Archery - 168 pages
Toxophilus?is a book about?longbow?archery?by?Roger Ascham, first published in London in 1545. Dedicated to?King Henry VIII, it is the first book on archery written in English. This edition was edited by Edward Arber, a notable academic and author.
 

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Page 6 - Scholemasters, in vsing correction, than commonlie there is. Who many times, punishe rather, the weakenes of nature, than the fault of the Scholer. Whereby, many Scholers, that might else proue...
Page 97 - A&es, as a man dyd ones eyther with the Mayre of London or Yorke I can not tel whether, whiche dyd commaund by proclamation, euerye man in the Citie, to hange a lanterne wyth a candell, afore his dore : whiche thynge the man dyd, but he dyd not lyght it : And...
Page 3 - CHRONICLE of fome of the principal events in the LIFE, WORKS, and TIMES of ROGER ASCHAM, Fellow of St.
Page 3 - Judges &c excepted; to use shooting in the long bow. Parents were to provide every boy from 7 to 17 years, with a bow and two arrows : after 17, he was to find himself a bow and four arrows.
Page 4 - I was called before him and the seniors, and after grievous rebuke and some punishment, open warning was given to all the fellows, none to be so hardy as to give me his voice at that election.
Page 145 - All the discommodities whiche ill custome hath graffed in archers, can neyther be quycklye poulled out, nor yet sone reckened of me, they be so manye. Some shooteth, his head forwarde as though he woulde byte the marke : an other stareth wyth hys eyes, as though they shulde flye out : An other winketh with one eye, and loketh with the other : Some make a face with writhing...
Page 4 - This communication of teaching youthe, maketh me to remember the right worshipfull and my singuler good mayster, Sir Humfrey Wingfelde, to whom nexte God, I ought to refer for his manifolde benefites bestowed on me, the poore talent of learnyng, whiche God hath lent me: and for his sake do I owe my service to all other of the name and noble house of the Wyngfeldes, bothe in woord and dede. Thys worshypfull man hath...
Page 145 - ... pricke heyghte. An other maketh a wrynchinge with hys backe, as though a manne pynched hym behynde. An other coureth downe, and layeth out his buttockes, as though he shoulde shoote at crowes. An other setteth forwarde hys lefte legge, and draweth backe wyth head and showlders, as thoughe he pouled at a rope, or els were afrayed of ye marke. An other draweth his shafte well, vntyll wythin .ii.
Page 6 - Nowell preached his funeral sermon, and testified that he never saw or heard of a person of greater integrity of life, or who was blessed with a more Christian death. Queen Elizabeth, when informed of his decease, declared that she would rather have lost £10,000. than her tutor Ascham. Buchanan did honour to his memory in the following epitaph : Alchnmtim extinct**!
Page 3 - Roger, in the year 1544, that she and her husband having lived together forty-seven years, at last died on the same day and almost at the same hour. Roger's first years were spent under his father's roof, but he was received at a very youthful age into the family of Sir Antony Wingfield, who furnished money for his education, and placed Roger, together with his own sons, under a tutor, whose name was R. Bond. The boy had by nature a taste for books, and showed his good taste by reading English in...

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