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Scottish fencing manuals detailing the use of the basket-hilted Scottish broadsword (besides other disciplines including the smallsword and spadroon and, to a lesser extent, the targe, dirk and quarterstaff) were published throughout the 18th century, with early and late examples dating to the late 17th and early 19th centuries, respectively:

• The Scots Fencing Master (the Complete Smallswordsman) – Sir William Hope (1687)

• Advice to his Scholar from the Fencing Master – Sir William Hope (1692)

• Complete Fencing Master – Sir William Hope (1691–1692)

• The Swordsman's Vade-Mecum – Sir William Hope (1692)

• New Short and Easy Method of Fencing (1st Edition) – Sir William Hope (1707)

• New Short and Easy Method of Fencing (2nd Edition) – Sir William Hope (1714)

• A Few Observations upon the Fighting for Prizes in the Bear Gardens – Sir William Hope (1715)

• A Vindication of the True Art of Self-Defence – Sir William Hope (1724)

• Expert Swords-man's Companion – Donald McBane (1728)

• A treatise on backsword, sword, buckler, sword and dagger, sword and great gauntlet, falchion, quarterstaff – Captain James Miller (1737)

• The Use of the Broad Sword – Thomas Page (1746)

• A Dictionary Explaining the Terms, Gards and Positions, used in the Art of the Small Sword – Hary Fergusson (1767)

• The Sword's-man – John Ferdinand (1788)

• Anti-Pugilism – Anonymous (Captain G. Sinclair, 1790)

• Lecture on the Art of Defence – Archibald MacGregor (1791)

• Treatise on the New Sword Exercise, for Cavalry – Sholto Sorlie (1797)

• The Art of Defence on Foot with Broad Sword and Sabre, by C. Roworth (1798)

• The Guards of the Highland Broadsword – Henry Angelo, art by Thomas Rowlandson (20 January 1799)

• Hungarian & Highland Broadsword – by Henry Angelo and Son (12 February 1799)

• Ten Divisions of the Highland Broadsword – Henry Angelo (20 June 1799)

• Cudgel Playing Modernized and Improved; or, The Science of Defence, Exemplified in a Few Short and Easy Lessons, for the Practice of the Broad Sword or Single Stick, on Foot – Captain G. Sinclair (1800)

• Lecture on the Art of Defence – Archibald MacGregor (1791)

• The Art of Defence with Broad Sword and Sabre, by C. Roworth (1804 & 1824)

• Fencing Familiarized; or, a New Treatise on the Art of the Scotch Broad Sword – Thomas Mathewson (1805)

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