Being new to this site you will excuse me if I am bring up a subject that may have been well-covered in the past. I have noticed that slur bows occasionally appear in the inventories of weapons held in armouries during the Middle Ages. For example,in Elizabethan times an inventory of weaponry at the Tower of London included a considerably quantity of "crossbows, slur bows and long-bow arrows for fireworks"
Few slur bows (and as far as I know, no English-made ones)
survive and apart from knowing ...
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