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   From: william_black@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   "The Highlander"  wrote in message   
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   > I do remember that James II (?) forbade the playing of golf on Sunday   
   > as it was interfering with archery practice.   
      
   And Henry VIII banned football for exactly the same reason.   
      
   There's no proof to suggest either king was in the slightest way effective   
   in encouraging archery.   
      
   Now out there somewhere there's a book called 'Bow versus Gun' which is a   
   reprint of a couple of Elizabethan pamphlets on the virtues and vices of the   
   longbow,  along with an introduction by EG Heath.   
      
   I imagine any serious library will have a copy.   
      
   The pamphlets reproduced go into some considerable detail about the   
   arguments at the time,  and they were written by men who'd seen active   
   service and who were debating the defence of the realm at a time when it was   
   in danger from the Armada so it stand to reason that they were sincere, and   
   almost certainly knowledgeable.   
      
      
   --   
   William Black   
      
      
   I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.   
   Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland   
   I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate   
   All these moments will be lost in time,  like icecream on the beach   
   Time for tea.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)