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Image 10735
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Image 10736
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Image 10737
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Image 10738
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Image 10739
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Image 10733
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Image 10732
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Image 10734
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Image 10729
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Image 10731
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Image 10730
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Image 10727
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Image 10726
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Image 10728
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Image 10722
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Image 10723
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Image 10724
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Image 10725
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Image 10716
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Image 10717
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Image 10718
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Image 10719
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Image 10721
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Image 10720
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Image 10709
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Image 10710
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Image 10711
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Image 10712
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Image 10713
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Image 10714
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Image 10715
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Image 10704
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Image 10705
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Image 10706
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Image 10707
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Image 10708
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Image 10703
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[The four images are taken from an exact facsimile of the first English treatise on fishing, printed in 1496]
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[The four images are taken from an exact facsimile of the first English treatise on fishing, printed in 1496]
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[The four images are taken from an exact facsimile of the first English treatise on fishing, printed in 1496]
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[The four images are taken from an exact facsimile of the first English treatise on fishing, printed in 1496]
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(Harl. MS. 603.)
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(From the Luttrell Psalter.)
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Image 7559
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Image 7558
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Amess, Ammis, Aumuses (Latin, almecia, almucium)
A canonical vestment lined with fur, that served to cover the head and shoulders, perfectly distinct from the amice. Also a cowl or capuchon worn by the laity of both sexes.
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The bibulium, that is to say, the ale-house or tavern, displayed its sign for all men to see: the ivy-garland, or wreath of vine-leaves, in honour of Bacchus, wreathed around a hoop at the end of a projecting pole. This bold advertisment of good drink to be had within long outlasted Roman times, and indeed still survives in differing forms, in the signs of existing inns. It became the “ale-stake” of Anglo-Saxon and middle English times.
The traveller recognised the ale-stake at a great distance, by reason of its long pole—the “stake” whence those old beer-houses derived their name—projecting from the house-front, with its mass of furze, or garland of flowers, or ivy-wreath, dangling at the end. But the ale-houses that sold good drink little needed such signs, a circumstance that early led to the old proverb, “Good wine needs no bush.”
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A troop of mounted crossbowmen, of special skill and courage, usually formed the bodyguard of the king, and attended him in battle. Mounted crossbowmen
were largely employed on the Continent in the fourteenth, and first half of the
fifteenth century, and these men were usually allowed one and sometimes even
two horses apiece, besides being supplied, when on the march, with carts to
carry their crossbows and quarrels
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The centre figure may be seen bending his crossbow with a windlass, with his foot in the stirrup of the weapon.
From Manuscript, Froissart's ' Chronicles.
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The crossbowman is aiming at a target to the left of the picture.
From a catalogue of the Arsenal of the Emperor Maximilian I. (6. 1459, d. 1519).
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Crossbowman approaching game by means of a stalkig horse
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How a crossbowman should approach animals by means of a cart concealed with foliage.
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The narrow cruciform loophole, called by architects ' Arbalestina,' which is usually to be seen in the masonry of a mediaeval fortress, was designed for the special use of crossbowmen in repelling an assault.
To enable the crossbow, or longbow, to be aimed to the right or left through a loophole, the aperture was greatly widened out on the inside face of the perforated wall.
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They represent French soldiers at the defence of Rouen, 1419, shooting from behind the shelter of shields propped up in front of them.
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Of this plate Valturius quaintly writes: ' When everything is cleared for navigation
before the charge is made upon the enemy, it is well that those who are about to engage the foe should first practise in port, and grow accustomed to turn the tiller in calm water, to get ready the iron grapples and hooked poles, and sharpen the axes and scythes at their ends. The soldiers should learn to stand firm upon the decks and keep their footing, so that what they learn in sham fight they may not shrink from in real action.
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The centre figure is winding up his windlass crossbow behind the shelter of a shield.
From Manuscript, Froissarts ' Chronicles.'
The larger shields, which were carried before the knights (by their pages) when on the march, and which were propped up in front of them as a protection from arrows in a battle or a siege, were known as pavises or mantlets.
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The soldiers carry windlass crossbows. One man is winding up his weapon ; the other is shooting, with his windlass laid on the ground at his feet.
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Image 6644
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Image 6641
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Image 6642
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Image 6643
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Image 6639
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Image 6640
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Image 6636
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Image 6637
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Image 6638
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Image 6634
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Image 6635
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Image 6631
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Image 6632
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Image 6633
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Image 6628
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Image 6629
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Image 6630
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Image 6626
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Image 6627
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Qala'at El-Hosn
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Image 6624
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Image 6625
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Image 6620
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