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Anecdotes of Archery
Part 5 of 34
WILLIAM II. being hunting in the New-Foreft, in company with Sir WALTER TYRRELL, and others; this knight unfortunately let fly an arrow at a flag, which glancing againft a tree, took a different direction, and pierced the king's breaft, who immediately expired. To perpetuate the memory of Co remarkable an event, John LORD DELWAR, who had feen the tree growing, erected a pillar in the very place where it ftood, with the following infcription : " HIRE STOOD THE OAK TREE ON WHICH " AN ARROW, SHOT BY SIR WALTER TYR- " RELL AT A STAG, GLANCED, AND STRUCK " KING WILLIAM THE SECOND, SURNAMED " RUFUS, IN THE BREAST, OF WHICH HE IN- " STANTLY DIED, ON THE SECOND DAY OF " AUGUST, A. D. 1100." " KING WILLIAM THE SECOND, SURNA
" MED RUFUS, BEING SLAIN AS BEFORE RE- " LATED, WAS LAID IN A CART BELONG- " ING TO ONE PURKESS, AND DRAWN FROM " THENCE TO WINCHESTER, AND BURIED " IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THAT " CITY." -=O0O=- RICHARD STRONGBOW, Earl of Clare, Pembroke, and Buckingham, was famous for his flrength and fkill in Archery ; after reducing Ireland for king Henry II. he died 1177. -=O0O=-
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