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English smallsword author associated with `The English Fencing-Master` and `The Gentleman's Tutor for the Small Sword`. His publications belong to the early eighteenth-century London market for polite martial instruction, where fencing manuals were shaped for gentlemen, students, and urban readers seeking practical but socially respectable training.
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English aristocrat, courtier and prolific Elizabethan-Jacobean manuscript author. Around 1613 he wrote Duello Foiled during the royal investigation of duelling; copies survive in the Ashmole manuscript collection.
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British author associated with `Observations on Swords`, a mid-nineteenth-century work on military blades directed to officers and civilians concerned with sword quality and effectiveness. He belongs to the industrial and military world of Victorian edged-weapon manufacture and evaluation rather than to the salle d’armes tradition proper.
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English Church of England clergyman, author and lecturer.
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English editor and miscellaneous writer of Irish parentage. John Doran wrote on manners, antiquities, theatre and social history; the catalogued Habits and Men and Knights and Their Days are among his characteristic historical works.
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English antiquary and specialist in medieval arms and armour. John Hewitt authored Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe and edited a later edition of Charles Alfred Stothard’s Monumental Effigies of Great Britain.
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British sword manufacturer, fencing enthusiast and writer. He joined Henry Wilkinson’s firm in the 1840s, took over the business in 1861, and published technical observations including The Shape of Sword Blades.
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British author of `The Only Approved Guide through All the Stages of a Quarrel`, a nineteenth-century handbook on duelling practice, honour culture, and the management of quarrels. He belongs to the later printed phase of duel literature, when codification, etiquette, and retrospective commentary increasingly replaced the technical sword treatise proper.
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British civil engineer, sports writer and peer who became the fifth Baron Headley. An accomplished boxer and exponent of self-defence, he co-authored the 1890 Broad-sword and Single-stick manual with Clive Phillipps-Wolley.
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English naval administrator, parliamentarian, diarist and Fellow and later President of the Royal Society. His diary and correspondence are major witnesses to Restoration public, naval and social life.
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English judge, politician and antiquary whose manuscript writing addressed the antiquity, use and ceremony of combats in England.
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English antiquary, politician and manuscript collector, author of a notice on the antiquity, use and ceremony of lawful combats in England preserved among the Stowe manuscript references.
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