The Reformation and the Renaissance (1485-1547): Second Edition
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The Reformation and the Renaissance (1485-1547): Second Edition
Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Sources; Reformation -- England
Reserving always to the Queen and to the Lord President, the
attribution and gift of the prizes, after the manner and form
accustomed. For their demerits according to the articles ensuing:
_How many ways the prize is won._
First, whoso breaketh most spears, as they ought to be broken, shall
have the prize.
Item, whoso breaketh three times, in the sight of the helm, shall have
the prize.
Item, whoso meeteth two times, coronal[72] to coronal, shall have the
prize.
Item, whoso beareth a man doun with stroke of spear shall have the
prize.
_How many ways the prize shall be lost._
First, whoso striketh a horse shall have no prize.
Item, who striketh a man, his back turned, or disarmed of his spear,
shall have no prize.
Item, whoso hitteth the toile[73] three times shall have no prize.
Item, whoso unhelms himself two times shall have no prize, unless his
horse do fail him.
_How broken spears shall be allowed._
First, whoso breaketh a spear between the saddle and the coronal[74]
of the helm shall be allowed for one.
Item, whoso breaketh a spear from the coronal upwards shall be allowed
for two.
Item, whoso breaketh a spear, so that he striketh his adversary doun,
or put him out of his saddle, or disarms him in such wise as he may
not run the next course after, or breaketh his spear coronal to
coronal shall be allowed as three spears broken.
_How spears broken shall be disallowed._
First, whoso breaketh on the saddle shall be disallowed for
spear-breaking.
Item, whoso hitteth the toile once shall be disallowed for two.
Item, whoso hitteth the toil shall, for that blow the second time be
disallowed three.
Item, whoso breaketh a spear, within a foot to the coronal, shall be
adjudged as no spear broken, but a faint attaint.[75]
_For the Prize to be given and who shall be preferred._
First, whoso beareth a man doun out of the saddle, or putteth him to
the earth, horse and man, shall have the prize before him that
striketh coronal to coronal two times.
Item, he that strikes coronal to coronal two times, shall have the
prize before him that strikes the sight three times.
Item, he that strikes the sight three times shall have the prize
before him that breaketh more spears.
Item, if there be any man that furnisheth in this wise, which shall be
deemed to have bidden longest in the field helmed, and to have run the
fairest course, and to have given the greatest strokes, and to have
holpen himself best with his spear he shall have the prize.
JOHN WORCESTER.
_At Tourney._
Two blows at the passage, and ten at the joining, more or less as they
make it. All gripings, shocks and foul play forbidden.
_How Prizes and Tourney and barrier are to be lost._
He that giveth a stroke with a pike from the girdle downwards, or
under the barrier, shall win no prize.
He that shall have a close gauntlet, or anything to fasten his sword
to his hand, shall have no prize.
He whose sword falleth out of his hand shall win no prize.
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