From British History on-line: "In the reign of Henry VIII., when Shoreditch was still a mere waste of fields, dotted with windmills and probably, like Islington (fields, much frequented by archers, for practising at roving marks), the burly king conferred on an archer of Shoreditch, named Barlow, who had pleased him at some wondrous competition at Windsor, the jocular title of Duke of Shoreditch."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Barlow, 'Duke of Shoreditch'
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Charles Square mural - archery
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