Note 1015 — Chapter IX · THE CHURCHYARD YEW
Reading edition
Archery, p. 103. Ency. Brit., 11th edition, under Archery. J. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Bk II. chap. i., gives several facts to prove that the Saxons were acquainted with the bow and arrow. For a more guarded view, see Baron J. de Baye, Industrial Arts of the Anglo-Saxons, trans. T. B. Harbottle, 1893, pp. 30-1.