Toxophilus Volume 5; 1545 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...attonement: wherby neither we shalbe any more troubled, nor the Scottes with their best countries any more destroyed, nor ye see, whiche God ordeyneth profytable for both, shall from eyther be any more stopped: to the great quietneffe, wealth, and selicitie of all the people dwellynge in this He, to the high renoume and prayse of our mood noble kyng, to the seare of all maner of nacions that owe ill wyll to either countrie, to the hygh pleasure of God, which as he is one, and hateth al diuision, so is he best of all pleased, to se thinges which be wyde and amyffe, brought to peace and attonement. But Textor (I beshrowe him) hath almooste broughte vs from our communication of shoting. Now sir by my iudgement, the Artillarie of England farre excedeth all other realmes: but yet one thing I doubt and longe haue surely in that point doubted, when, or by whom, shotyng was first brought in to Englande, and for the fame purpose as I was ones in companye wyth fyr Thomas Eliot knight, which surelie for his lerning in all kynde of knowlege bringeth much worshyp to all the nobilitie of Englande, I was so bould to aske hym, yf he at any tyme, had marked any thing, as concernynge the bryngyngein of shootynge in to Englande: he aunswered me gentlye agayne, that he had a worcke in hand which he nameth, De rebus?nemorabilibus Anglitz, which I trust we shal se in print shortlye,7 and for the accomplyshmente of that boke, he had read and perused ouer many olde monumentes of Englande, and in seking for that purpose, he marked this of sliootynge in an excedyng olde cronicle, the which had no name, that what tyme as the Saxons came first into this realme in kyng Vortigers dayes, when they had bene here a whyle and at last began to faull out with the Brittons, they troubled and s...