While precise details about the financing of arrows at Agincourt are scarce, some surviving records illuminate medieval military expenditures. The Treasurer’s Accounts English royal treasury records from the period list payments for bows and arrows, including: Purchases of raw m

In medieval England, communities sometimes bore responsibility for equipping archers raised under the “Commissions of Array” — a system where local men were summoned for military service. Parishes and boroughs could be required to supply bows and arrows for their men. &n

1. The Crown's Role in Financing the Campaign Military campaigns in medieval England were primarily financed by the Crown, through taxation, borrowing, and revenues from royal estates. Taxation: To fund the 1415 campaign, Henry V secured subsidies from Parliament, which provided fund

England's reliance on the longbow dated back to earlier centuries, with the weapon becoming a symbol of English military prowess during the Hundred Years' War. By the time of Agincourt, archery had been institutionalized in English society through laws and customs. Statutes and Archery Tr