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 and Senthnents. 1 1 archery very foon after the entrance of the Normans ; and the original writer, who lived perhaps not much after the middle of the twelfth century, alTures us that the Hibernian Scots, and the men of Galloway, who were the ufijal enemies of the men of Cumberland, " feared thefe fort of arms more than any others, and called an arrow, proverbially, a flying devil.'' We learn from this and other accounts, that the arrows of this period were barbed and fledged, or furnillied with feathers. It may be obferved, in fupport of the aflertion that the ufe of bows and arrows No. 76. A Stag-hunt. was derived from the Saxons, that the names bow {logo) and arroiv {arewe), by which they have always been known, are taken direftly from their langiaage ; whereas, if the praftice of archery had been introduced by the Normans, it is probable we iTiould have called them arcs and fletches. After the entrance of the Normans, we begin to find more frequent allufions to the convivial meetings of the middle and lower orders in ordinary inns or private houfes. Thus, we have a ftory in Reginald of Durham, of a party of the parifhioners of Kellow, who went to a drinking party at the prieft's, and palTed in this manner a great portion of the nio^ht.* This occurred in the time of bifliop Geoffrey Rufus, between 1 133 and 1 140. A youth and his m.onaftic teacher are reprefented on another occafion as going to a tavern, and pafling the whole of the night hospitibus potaturus acresbit. Cum igitur noctis spacium effluxisset, Scc.— Rt^. Dunelm, c. 17 a in
 * Qn^iclam Walterus .... qui ad domiim sacerdotis vilkilx praedictae cum