Battle of the Spurs

( a ) an engagement at Courtrai in 1302 where the burghers of the town beat the knighthood of France, and the spurs of 4000 knights were collected after the battle; ( b ) an engagement at Gui negate, 1513, in which Henry VIII. made the French forces take to their spurs; of the Barriers (see Barriers ); of the Books , a satire by Swift on a literary controversy of the time; of the Standard , a battle in 1138, in which the English, with a high-mounted crucifix for a standard, beat the Scots at Northallerton.