A tryall [sic] skill betwen Josias Maynard citizen and cutler of London, and master of the noble science of defence at the Black Swan in Holborne & of the House of White-Friers. And William Swinow, alias Scot, citizen and cooke of London, and master of the noble science of defence of the House of Tower Royall. Maynard, Josias, fl. 1652. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B43433 of text R180490 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B43433 489260606 ocn 489260606 Wing M1462A

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 eng Swordplay -- England -- Early works to 1800. Dueling -- England -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo A tryall skill :betwen Josias Maynard citizen and cutler of London, and master of the noble science of defence at the Black Swan in Holborne e.t.c. of n/a 1652 3 385 2 0 0 0 0 0 51.95 D The rate of 51.95 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-04 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-11 Sampled and proofread 2014-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Tyrall Skill , BEtwen Josias Maynard Citizen , and Cutler of London , and Master of the Noble Science of defence at the Bla●k Swan in Holborne , & of the House of White-Friers . And William Swinow , alias Scot , Citizen and Cooke of London , and Master of the Noble Science of defence , of the House of Tower Royall . GENTLEMEN ,

ACcording to the ancient custome heretofore used , & practised in the use of weapons by way of Tryalls of Skill , where the Members of the said two Houses are to play one House against the other , and not to play two Members of one House against one another ; Therefore for example sake , and avoyding of such disorder hereafter . I the said Josias Maynard do invite the said William Swinnow , alias Scot , to meet at the Hope on the Banck side on Munday next being the twenteith of this instant September 1652 , betweene one and two of the Clock in the afternoon at the firthest ▪ at these fourteene weapons

The Names of the Weapons , Long Sword , Back Sword , Single Rapier , Sword & Dagger , Rapier & Dagger , Sword & Buckler , Halfe Pike , Short Sword and Gauntlet , Halbert , Case of Rapiers , Mall , Single Faulchion , Flayle , Quarter-staffe ,

KNOW GENTLEMEN ,

THat I William Swinnow , alias Scot , shall dare to meet the afore named Josias Maynord if God , ermitt , at the time and place appointed , where accarding to the the ancient custom above mentioned : I shall without question give that content unto all , deseruing Spectators as shall bee , both to my credit , and the whole House of Tower Royall .

GENTLEMEN .

If any accident may chance to happen , as you may conjecture easily may be , in playing of so many weapons ; there shall be as formerly mentioned , Bengimon Dobson , and Francis Burgis , Professors of the Noble Science of defence , ready to performe what shall be wanting in my Person . Thus desiring nothing more then a cleare stage & from him no favour . God preserve the Commonwealth of England .