Archery Practice in Early Tudor England

Gunn, Steven

doi:10.1093/pastj/gtq029

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“…106 An exception to the limited enforcement of new statutes is concern over the practice of archery. 107 At Fordington, only very short-lived monitoring of requisite equipment by the jury is seen between 1626 and 1636, with presentments of all the tenants for defect of bows and arrows and shooting butts being in decay. 108 However, Worfield's vills made consistent presentments concerning archery between the 1600s and 1630s, amercing specific individuals for failing to practise and whole vills for failing to maintain shooting butts.…”

Section: Royal Presentmentsmentioning

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The Changing Role of Manorial Officers and Manor Courts

2023

Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

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Historians investigating manorial officeholding and manor courts currently present two very different pictures for the medieval and early modern eras. For many medievalists, focused on the period before the Black Death, manor courts were primarily an instrument for the lord to control his tenants and extract rents and services from them, allowing lords to dramatically increase their incomes over the thirteenth century. 1 This is particularly true of manorial officers; while tenants did use courts for their own non-seigniorial functions in terms of interpersonal business, the role of officials is seen as having been mainly to the benefit of the lord. 2 Although the device of presentment (where sworn jurors had to return information about offences committed within the manor) was first used for public business in leets, most interpretations agree that it was coopted by seigniorial administrators to provide a more effective way of managing seigniorial rights. While acknowledging some successful resistance, Ralph Evans notes that at Thorncroft 'the manorial court . . . consistently secured eventual compliance' to the desires of the lord. 3 Officers acting in the court were used to monitor lords' rights over unfree

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Section: Royal Presentmentsmentioning

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The Changing Role of Manorial Officers and Manor Courts

2023

Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

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“…61 Elyot clearly had a patriotic as well as a pedagogic agenda, given that a series of royal ordinances and parliamentary statutes from the 1360s onward had ordered Englishmen and boys to develop their archery skills in the interest of national security, while forgoing other pastimes. 62 We should, however, note that from 1462 the infirmary garden at Westminster abbey gave access to archery butts, where the monks, who were naturally exempt from this legislation, could practise for the good of their health alone. 63 As might be expected, moderation assumed even greater importance during epidemics.…”

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Keeping Fit in Later Medieval England: Exercise for Man and Beast

Rawcliffe

2022

History

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This article begins by exploring ideas about physical exercise as outlined in the advice literature that circulated widely in late medieval and early sixteenth-century England. Whereas other aspects of these popular guides to health have attracted considerable interest on the part of medical and cultural historians, recommendations about exercise have been largely neglected. Yet it was deemed essential for both physical and mental wellbeing. Its principal function was to augment and redistribute the body's innate heat, which functioned as 'Nature's primary instrument', while improving digestion and the elimination of waste, encouraging restorative sleep, and combatting stress. These ideas spread rapidly throughout society, being harnessed to suit the practical needs of many classes of people, especially after the Black Death when keeping fit became a priority. Not even animals could escape current assumptions about the importance of remaining active, while political theorists emphasised the need to purge idle and unproductive elements from the communal body.

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“…Finally, little technical literature on archery is to be found in Europe. For references see Gunn [2010].…”

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confidence: 99%