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Wow you guys have been busy. Okay a Welsh Bill, aka a Welsh Hook looks something like this.Some might have had longer spikes to the fore, but essentially it is just another regional variation on the common billhook, alongside; black bills, white bills, hedging bills and similar named items. Nothing fancy and designed to be made quickly in quantity with little effort.
The demi-lancers were the bargain basement of the old-style men at arms, not in full armour and paid at the same rate as the light horsemen, 'scourers' and 'prickers' in past times (9d). Gentry and well-off yeomen certainly, but not wealthy enough to go the full distance as regards kit and probably mount. Social status was perhaps the only difference between them and the custrells.
One oddity were the twenty 'halberdiers' raised by the Viscount Welles ... It is difficult to say whether they were just billmen with a fancy name ...
I'm also curious what happened to the 1,200 pikes supplied to 'the English king' by Burgundy in 1483, we typically associate Henry VIII as being the guy who introduced them.
Here we go, a Welsh bill.
Okay a Welsh Bill, aka a Welsh Hook looks something like this.