Preparing for the challenge to France, Edward had to make up for the disparity in numbers by some superiority in weaponry or tactics. In 1337 he had prohibited on pain of death all sport except archery and canceled the debts of all workmen who manufactured the bows of yew and their arrows.
That … definitely is one way to make your subjects into better archers
(from A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman)
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