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They destroyed the billmen and the bowmen who had got across.

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They destroyed the billmen and the bowmen who had got across.

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On the slope of the hill above this church once waved the banners of a king, and the opposing banners of his nobles: the one receiving the lesson, that kings have duties as well as their subjects; and the others enforcing the lesson by the sight of lines and columns of the stout bowmen and billmen of the Norman chivalry.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

French men-at-arms, thirty-two deep, were thrown into confusion by the incessant discharges of the English archers, their flanks laid open by the repulse of the vehement charge of their horse by Henry V., and their dense columns slaughtered where they stood, unable alike to fight or to fly, by the general advance of the English billmen.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

France, and desired them to get in readiness 1,000 men, a portion of whom were to be horsemen, well horsed and armed, and the rest to be archers, pikes and billmen.

London and the Kingdom - Volume I

The warship was a merchantman, on board of which a number of fighting-men, knights, men-at-arms, archers and billmen were embarked.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

Court of Aldermen from the lord chancellor, on behalf of the queen regent, to get in readiness another contingent of 500 men well harnessed and weaponed, 100 of whom were to be archers and the rest billmen.

London and the Kingdom - Volume I

There are billmen, cross-bowmen, and culverin-men.

VIII. The Convenience of Windows Overlooking the River. Book VII 1917

The archers and billmen of the Middle Ages, who, with provisions for forty days at their back, left the fields for the camp, were troops of the same description.

Machiavelli 1909

There were bowmen and billmen from Cheshire and Lancashire under the St.nley banner; and James St.nley, Bishop of Ely, brought the banner of St. Etheldreda, the Northumbrian queen who founded the monastery of Ely.

Northumberland Yesterday and To-day 1908