Interesting read of the introduction - and very good points. Perhaps yew was also way too hard to come by &#x2F; expensive for the Scottish?<p>Also, it does make sense that training long term military personel was reserved to the ruling feudal class. Still, producing a longbow compatible population (of strong, loyal) men might have had other costs then political ones. Precision wise, a longbow is not a real tournament weapon - and you needed tall, strong men to wield it.