Ah yes the two long bow fingers... At Creasy and Agincourt, French Knights threatened to cut off the bow fingers of English Yoemanry, thereby sentencing them to a life a not being able to hunt Deer, let alone fight the French. Shortly after knocking off most of the French knights from about 300 yards with armor piercing three hundred pound bows (no kidding examples were found on the Rose) they raised their bow fingers to show that they were not cut off, and infact when the British, rather ingloriusly offed the French alies at Dunkirk, and did the same, it was fully aware of the Creasy and Agincourt conections, I am told.
Cheers
& V with no offence - I shoot a long bow....
Larry