Under the Soles of His Feet
Stephen Alford: Henry’s Wars, 4 April 2019
The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII
by Steven Gunn.
Oxford, 297 pp., £35, January 2018,978 0 19 880286 0 Show More
by Steven Gunn.
Oxford, 297 pp., £35, January 2018,
“... invasion. Strategically important towns like Southampton possessed considerable firepower: ‘Thomas with the Beard’, a gun of somewhere between six hundred and one thousand pounds, had been in the town’s arsenal since at least 1468. The government kept an eye on the number of horses suitable for military service that were available throughout the ... ”