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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<HEAD>A Tyrall Skill,</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">BEtwen <HI>Jo&s;ias Maynard Citizen,</HI> and Cutler of <HI>London,</HI> and Ma&s;ter of the <HI>Noble Science</HI> of <HI>defence</HI> at the <HI>Bla<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k Swan</HI> in <HI>Holborne,</HI> &amp; of the Hou&s;e of <HI>White-Friers.</HI> And <HI>William Swinow,</HI> alias <HI>Scot, Citizen</HI> and Cooke of <HI>London,</HI> and Ma&s;ter of the <HI>Noble Science</HI> of <HI>defence,</HI> of the Hou&s;e of <HI>Tower Royall.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>GENTLEMEN,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>ACcording to the ancient cu&s;tome heretofore u&s;ed, &amp; pra|cti&s;ed in the u&s;e of weapons by way of Tryalls of Skill, where the Members of the &s;aid two Hou&s;es are to play one Hou&s;e again&s;t the other, and not to play two Members of one Hou&s;e again&s;t one another; Therefore for example &s;ake, and avoyding of &s;uch di&s;order hereafter. I the &s;aid <HI>Jo&s;ias Maynard</HI> do invite the &s;aid <HI>William Swinnow,</HI> alias <HI>Scot,</HI> to meet at the <HI>Hope</HI> on the <HI>Banck &s;ide</HI> on <HI>Munday</HI> next being the twenteith of this in&s;tant <HI>September</HI> 1652, betweene one and two of the Clock in the afternoon at the firthe&s;t&punc; at the&s;e fourteene weapons</P>
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<HEAD>The Names of the Weapons,</HEAD>
<ITEM>Long Sword,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Back Sword,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Single Rapier,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sword <HI>&amp;</HI> Dagger,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rapier <HI>&amp;</HI> Dagger,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sword <HI>&amp;</HI> Buckler,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Halfe Pike,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Short Sword and Gauntlet,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Halbert,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ca&s;e of Rapiers,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mall,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Single Faulchion,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Flayle,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Quarter-&s;taffe,</ITEM>
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<P>KNOW GENTLEMEN,</P>
<P>THat I William Swinnow, alias Scot, &s;hall dare to meet the afore named Jo&s;ias Maynord if God, ermitt, at the time and place appointed, where ac|carding to the the ancient cu&s;tom above mentioned: I &s;hall without que|&s;tion give that content unto all, de&s;eruing Spectators as &s;hall bee, both to my credit, and the whole Hou&s;e of Tower Royall.</P>
<P>GENTLEMEN.</P>
<P><HI>If any accident may chance to happen, as you may conjecture ea&s;ily may be, in playing of &s;o many weapons; there &s;hall be as formerly mentio|ned,</HI> Bengimon Dob&s;on, and Francis Burgis, <HI>Profe&s;sors of the Noble Science of defence, ready to performe what &s;hall be wanting in my Per&s;on. Thus de&s;iring nothing more then a cleare &s;tage &amp; from him no favour. God pre&s;erve the Commonwealth of England.</HI></P>
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