far as we can learn, not by native troops, but by Orientals in their pay. ~Bows of Britons.~ ~Bows of Welsh.~ ~Bows of Anglo-Saxons.~ The early Britons had merely bows and arrows of reed, with flint or bone heads. Arrows were used by the Welch in Norman reigns, who were famous archers; their bows were made of wild elm, but stout, and not calculated to shoot a great distance, but their arrows would inflict very severe wounds in close fight. Their arrows would pierce oaken boards four inches thick. The bow was also a weapon of war among the Anglo-Saxons. The Salic law shows that both the sling and the bow were used by the contemporary Franks; and they even used poisoned arrows. The Anglo-Saxon bow was of the form of the Grecian, but it was only under the Normans that the bow became a master weapon; the Saxons principally using it, like the people of Tahiti of the present day, for killing birds. ~No bows in France A. D. 514.~ During the reign of Clovis, the French made no use of the bow in their armies, but it was employed during the reign of Charlemagne, who flourished in the end of the eighth century; as a Count is mentioned, who was directed on conducting soldiers to the army, to see they had their proper arms; that is a lance, a buckler, a bow, two strings, and twelve arrows. ~A. D. 1066. Harold shot with an arrow~ ~Known by Danes and Saxons.~ ~As a military weapon at the battle of Hastings.~ ~Archery encouraged by statute.~ ~Long bow in conquest of Ireland 1172.~