Where seconds disagree, and resolve to exchange shots themselves, it
must be at the same time and at right angles with their principals,
thus:—
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If with swords, side by side, with five paces interval.
N.B. All matters and doubts not herein mentioned will be explained
and cleared up by application to the committee, who meet alternately
at Clonmell and Galway, at the quarter-sessions, for that
purpose.[6]
Crow Ryan, President,
James Keogh,}
Amby Bodkin,} Secretaries.
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Footnote 6:
The residue of the rules I have found among other papers since the
first edition of this book was printed—but they are much defaced.
There were eleven or twelve of them only, on _points of honour_.
The rules of combat are all given; and they are full of a
pugnacious _sophistry_, which would scarcely entertain the reader.
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