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.

Not bad Larry, not bad .... But ....

1/. The threat was to cut off the hands of the Captured.

2/. The English Yeomanry were just that, Infantry, not archers.

3/. The Archers in the main, came from South Wales and the March.

4/. Hunting the deer was a capital offence in most of England.

I fear that you have fallen into the "For Wales, see England" trap, but then, so did Shakespeare !

Gareth