Quote Originally Posted by scrambler
OK, at least one source backs him up. No mention of "plucking yew."

http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/archery/faq/history.html

And a related event

http://kenilworthvoicestwo.mysite.wa....uk/page2.html

Don't know on this. There's another reference to an earlier threat by the French to mutilate archers that I found on a history forum, but that was the blind leding the blind.

I'd have to say that I'm not going to file this under Myth: debunked or under Fact: proven. Excpet for the "pluck yew" bit - that's just nonsense.

Steve
The fellows that do the re-enactment at the Abbey Tournie up here near Brisbane tell the same story about "plucking yew". Without laying my eyes on the written evidence personally I take any of this sort of thing with a grain of salt. Sure, there is some degree of truth in any of these stories but we all know about "chinese whispers" !!

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