school-of-arms

Updated: March 23, 2026

It is certainly trying, when you square up to a rough and expect him to hit out with his fists, to receive a violent doubling-up kick in the stomach; and similarly annoying is it, when attacked by a man with a stick, to experience treatment quite different to anything you ever came across in your own particular School-of-Arms. But after all this is only what you ought to expect.

Baron Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn Headley - Broad-Sword and Single-Stick: With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah,: Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence