Thank you for your comment! I agree, this is an important question. Coincidentally I work with Zach Wylde’s treatise too, and it’s VERY different from what was written by Thomas Page. Might have to make a video about this! 👍

That would be great!

But Page is very similar to McBane, Miller, Godfrey and Lonnergan and his instructor was a famous Stage-Gladiator. Pages targe material might be Scottish or just some modified buckler moves he learned from Timothy Buck, maybe a combination of both. I group Page in with the Stage Gladiators and I have a suspicion the Highland stuff is just marketing but I could be wrong. Zachary Wylde and Hope might be the unique outliers here. With Zachary Wylde have been written in 1711 with his proclamation to have teaching 30 years we can safely assume he was teaching stuff from around 1680, it speculation but maybe he is just showing an earlier method. I mean Wylde to me seems more like Swetnam or Silver than McBane,Miller, or Page