“ARTILLERY”
AN ANCIENT USAGE The old Artillery Ground, which once stood in the wide Moorfields, a marshy space outside Moorgate, and is to-day the drill ground of the famous Honourable Artillery Company, was London’s first flying ground. It was a well-known place for military exercise long before gunpowder had brought in those weapons which are called “ artillery” to-dtiy. In old English, “ artillery” meant bows and arrows, and the Artillery Ground was originally the place where the bowmen gathered to display their skill. Hard by is Artillery Street, where once lived London’s principal Bowyers and Fletchers, the makers of long-bows and cloth-yard shafts. The curious in these matters will-find the word “artillery” in the Bible, where, of course, it refers to hows and Arrows, and not to cannon. In I Samuel, xx., are the words, “And Jonathan gave his artillery unto the lad.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19443, 31 October 1925, Page 17 (Supplement)
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142“ARTILLERY” Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19443, 31 October 1925, Page 17 (Supplement)
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