I was surprised to see you write in answer to a question “ And the French hatred of archers would almost certainly have led to either a massacre or the maiming of the captured archers by severing their fingers.”

This is often said to be the origin of the V-sign. My searches about that claim have only resulted in statements by historians that there is no evidence for archers ever showing their two bow-string fingers to the French. Has your research shown that archers’ fingers were cut off, and not that archers held their two fingers up to taunt the French?

Mike Hutchinson