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Which 1374 ordinance of the City of London required all playing of football to cease and young men to practise archery at the butts on Sundays instead?

Medieval kings repeatedly banned football as a distraction from military archery practice; Edward III's 1363 proclamation and Richard II's 1389 statute made archery compulsory on feast days.

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