The Sign Manuals, and the Letters Patent of Southampton to 1422

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الصفحة xxii - In my time my poor father was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing, and so I think other men did their children : he taught me how to draw, how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms as divers other nations do, but with strength of the body.
الصفحة xvi - I have heard by credible report of such as were secret with his chamberers, that after this abominable deed done, he never had quiet in his mind, he never thought himself sure. Where he went abroad, his eyes whirled about, his body privily fenced, his hand ever on his dagger, his countenance and manner like one always ready to strike again...
الصفحة xxii - He taught me how to draw ; how to lay my body in my bow, and not to draw with strength of arms, as other nations do, but with strength of the body. I had my bows bought me, according to my age and strength ; as I increased in them, so my bows were made bigger and bigger ; for men shall never shoot well unless they be brought up in it. It is a goodly art, a wholesome kind of exercise, and much commended in physic.
الصفحة xiv - Southampton shall buy anything to sell again in the same city, unless he is of the gild merchant or of the franchise. And if anyone shall do so and is convicted of it, all which he has so bought shall be forfeited to the king; and no one shall be quit of custom unless he proves that he is in the gild or in the franchise, and this from year to year.
الصفحة xvi - We be determined," said the citizens of London in a petition to the King, " rather to adventure and to commit us to the peril of our lives and jeopardy of death, than to live in such thraldom and bondage as we have lived long time heretofore, oppressed and injured by extortions and new impositions against the laws of God and man and the liberty and laws of this realm, wherein every Englishman is inherited.
الصفحة 61 - HEnry, by the grace of God, king of England and France, and lord of Ireland, to all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting.
الصفحة xvii - ... any artificer or merchant stranger, of what nation or country he be, or shall be of, for bringing into this realm, or selling by retail or otherwise, any books written or printed, or for inhabiting within this said realm for the same intent...
الصفحة xvi - Where he went abroad, his eyes whirled about, his body privily fenced, his hand ever on his dagger, his countenance and manner like one always ready to strike again ; he took ill rest at...
الصفحة xxii - ... continually in his house ; that he should provide bows and arrows for his servants and children ; that every servant above seventeen and under sixty years of age should pay 6s. 8d. if he was without a bow and arrows for one month ; and it was also further enjoined that the inhabitants of every city, town, and place were to voL.

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