. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . BATTLE OP TEWKESBUllV.(/Mill a MS. in the University Librnry, Ghent.) with that of the arquebus, that it was not likely that the lattershould gain any footing in P^ngland. Down to the middle ofthe sixteenth century tlie archer held his own against theanjuelKisier : on the few occasions when they met he haddecidedly the advantage. In Elizabeths reign, when firearms 458 THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. [1399 wer
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . BATTLE OP TEWKESBUllV.(/Mill a MS. in the University Librnry, Ghent.) with that of the arquebus, that it was not likely that the lattershould gain any footing in P^ngland. Down to the middle ofthe sixteenth century tlie archer held his own against theanjuelKisier : on the few occasions when they met he haddecidedly the advantage. In Elizabeths reign, when firearms 458 THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. [1399 were already long established in use all over-the Continent,archers Avere still found iii the army which followed Leicesterto Flanders, and in the fleet Avhich scattered the Armada. Itwas not till the seventeenth century that the long-bow finallydisappeared; even as late as 1(142 there was a proposal to armsome of the London militia with the old national weapon : We have already mentioned that the Wars of the Roses. l;\ FUiKAKMS IMS Biinuj lliil). only brought to the frdut one general of the tirst class,Edward I \. Warwick the King-maker, the most prominenttighting-man n\ the period, was imly a ca])ablo leader afterllie mauniT of iii;iii\ [ llie English (?(iinmauders in tin- HundredYears Wnv. llr introduced no new itleas iiUo tbr militaryart; nor Ioiild be bnast, like Edward, that be bad ne\Tr lostany Liattle in wbiib be had engaged. If he failed b)- ill-luck THE ART OF WAR. 1485) at Barnet, it was rather by mistaken generalship that he losttlie second fioht of St. Alhans. The Yorkist Idnof, on the othci hand, never failed in anytnslc that he nndertook, from Northampton to is the reason far to seek: he was not only a hard tighter,
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