@prefix ns1: <https://martial.is/entity/> .
@prefix ns2: <https://w3id.org/martialis/ontology#> .
@prefix ns3: <https://martial.is/entity/01M5JTMYPE93S5QZA040VK4KVN/hasEvidence/> .
@prefix ns4: <https://w3id.org/martialis/vocab/information-type/> .
@prefix ns5: <https://w3id.org/martialis/vocab/evidence-type/> .
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix ns6: <https://martial.is/entity/01M5JTMYPE93S5QZA040VK4KVN/> .
@prefix ns7: <https://martial.is/agent/> .
@prefix ns8: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix ns9: <https://martial.is/entity/01M5JTMYPEMGBV9VR1FNNPYP8R/hasEvidence/> .
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .

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    schema:alternateName "Noble Science of Defence"@en, "English masters of defence"@en ;
    schema:description "The native English art of defence taught by the London Masters of Defence and their successors: sword and buckler, sword and dagger, two-handed sword, quarterstaff, bill and later the backsword, with the rapier added after the Italian masters arrived in the 1570s–1590s. George Silver defended it against the rapier in 1599; the backsword and quarterstaff were still taught by eighteenth-century prizefighters such as James Figg."@en ;
    schema:keywords "fencing", "historical-european-martial-arts", "english-swordsmanship" ;
    schema:name "English swordsmanship"@en ;
    ns2:hasEvidence ns9:0 ;
    ns2:hasStyleRelationAssertion ns1:01M5JTMYPE93S5QZA040VK4KVN ;
    ns2:styleType <https://w3id.org/martialis/vocab/style-classification/traditional> ;
    ns2:variantOf ns1:01M5JRHX02FJ6XZ3X069NVX3SE .
ns1:01M5JTMYPE93S5QZA040VK4KVN a ns2:StyleRelationAssertion ;
    ns8:wasDerivedFrom ns1:01M5JTMYPE2SJR19HRKSEWF49P, ns1:01M5G930MN1VM84DEZNGEZP48E ;
    ns2:hasConfidence ns6:hasConfidence ;
    ns2:hasEvidence ns3:1, ns3:0 ;
    ns2:relatedStyle ns1:01M5JRHX02FJ6XZ3X069NVX3SE ;
    ns2:styleRelationType <https://w3id.org/martialis/vocab/style-relation/variant_of> .
ns3:1 a ns2:SourceAssertionRelation ;
    ns2:basedOnSource ns1:01M5JTMYPE2SJR19HRKSEWF49P ;
    ns2:evidenceType ns5:indirect ;
    ns2:informationType ns4:secondary ;
    ns2:quotation "Silver championed the native English martial arts while objecting on ethical and technical grounds to the fashionable continental rapier systems being taught at the time." ;
    ns2:supports true .
ns3:0 a ns2:SourceAssertionRelation ;
    ns2:basedOnSource ns1:01M5G930MN1VM84DEZNGEZP48E ;
    ns2:evidenceType ns5:direct ;
    ns2:informationType ns4:secondary ;
    ns2:quotation "Like German fencing guilds, English masters taught the traditional weapons of sword and buckler, sword and dagger, two-handed sword, quarterstaff, and bill, only adding the Italian rapier and rapier and dagger after the arrival of the Italian masters Rocco Bonetti about 1571 and Vincentio Saviolo about 1590." ;
    ns2:sourceLocation "254" ;
    ns2:sourceLocatorLabel "page" ;
    ns2:supports true .
ns6:hasConfidence a ns2:Confidence ;
    ns8:wasAttributedTo ns7:FSM ;
    ns2:assessedBy ns7:FSM ;
    ns2:confidenceLevel <https://w3id.org/martialis/vocab/confidence-level/probable> ;
    ns2:confidenceRationale "One source states it; the other implies it." .
ns9:0 a ns2:SourceAssertionRelation ;
    ns2:basedOnSource ns1:01M5G930MN1VM84DEZNGEZP48E ;
    ns2:evidenceType ns5:direct ;
    ns2:informationType ns4:secondary ;
    ns2:quotation "Even George Silver (ca. 1560s–ca. 1620s), whose works provide the only detailed study of Elizabethan martial arts, was quick to point out that he was a gentleman, not a professional fencing master." ;
    ns2:sourceLocation "254" ;
    ns2:sourceLocatorLabel "page" ;
    ns2:supports true .