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with white, greene blacke silke and fustayne." These certainly appear to have been weapons for ceremonial purposes. In Spain, throughout the whole of the XVIth century, the sport of casting the javelin at a target when galloping at full speed was much practised by the nobility, and it is probable that there may have been a sport of the same kind in this country.

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