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By the way, I talked to a medieval anthropologist named Richard who shoots both crossbows and longbows and he shared an interesting theory with me. He's willing to swear by an academic work whose name escapes me at the moment that say the find of the Mary Rose has been misinterpreted to indicate that English archers used monstrously high draw weights like 185 or 200 lbs because the bows are so stiff and the skeletons found had disfigured spines. Its opinion was that remains of sailors were mislabeled as the skeletons of archers (supposedly there were only a few archers on board and a much larger crew) and that the back problems came from the crew's manual labor on the ship, and that the bow staves being carried were actually half-finished munitions bows in transportation with the intention that they would be shaved down by a bowyer when they reached their destination to suit the individual man who would draw it, therefore reducing its draw weight. Maybe they think so because the natural texture of the wood was left on the back of the bows. Anyway, if you believe that as this guy I talked to did, he was skeptical that all war bows were heavier than 110 pounds, arguing that a 190 pound bow is impossible for even a very strong man to draw. He thinks that the emphasis on the superhuman strength of English archers is a kind of historical myth perpetuated by England because it reinforces national pride and glorifies their ancestors. Certainly Mike Loades took the Mary Rose draw weights and construction at face value in the documentary.

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