Chapter M: Extract From the Survey of the Tower Armoury, 1660

(Brit. Mus., Harl. MS. 7457) 193

INDEX 195

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

PAGE

1. Diagram showing the “glancing surface” 4

2. Diagram showing the position of the lance in jousting,
from _Arch. Journ._, LV. 5

3. Pauldrons on the statue of Colleoni, Venice, and of a
Missaglia suit in the Waffensammlung, Vienna (Plate II) 6

4. The solleret, practical and unpractical 6

5. Horse-armour 8

6. Harnischmeister Albrecht, from a painting in the
Arsenal, Vienna 9

7. Cuissard for the off hock of a horse. Musée Porte de
Hal, Brussels 10

8. Arms of the Armourers’ Gild, Florence. From the Church
of Or San Michele 14

9. S. George, by Hans Multscher, 1458. Augsburg 14

10. Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, arming. Brit. Mus.,
Cott., Jul., E, IV, fol. 12 b 15

11. The Westminster helm 17

12. The Brocas helm 17

13. The Fogge helm 17

14. The Barendyne helm 17

15. The Mail-maker, from Jost Amman’s _Stande und
Handwerker_, _circ._ 1590 23

16. The Armourer, from the same source as the above 24

17. Burring-machine or “jenny,” from the picture by
Breughel given on the frontispiece 36

18. Method of making mail, from _Arch. Journ._, XXXVII 45

19. Representations of double and single mail, from the
effigy of Robert de Mauley, formerly in York Minster,
_Archæologia_, XXXI 45

20. The coif of mail, from the effigy of William, Earl of
Pembroke, Temple Church, and an unnamed effigy in Pershore
Church, Worcs, after Fairholt 46

21. Attachment of the camail, from the effigy of Sir R.
Pembridge, Clehonger Church, Hereford 46

22. Attachment of the camail reconstructed 46

23. Suggested arrangement of “banded” mail, from _Arch.
Journ._, XXXVII, figure from _Romance of Alexander_, Paris,
Bib. Nat., _circ._ 1240, and the effigy at Newton Solney,
Derbs. 47

24. Foot-soldier wearing a jack, from the _Chasse of S.
Ursula_, by Memling, 1475-1485. Bruges. 49

25. Construction of jack, from _Arch. Journ._, XXXVII 50

26. Brigandine in the Waffensammlung, Vienna, No. 130 50

27. Detail from the picture of S. Victor and donor, by Van
der Goes, Glasgow 51

28. Effigy in Ash Church, Kent, XIV cent. 51

29. Statue of S. George at Prague, 1375 51

30. The sliding rivet 52

31. Sections of brassards in the Tower 54

32. Locking gauntlet of Sir Henry Lee. Armourers’ Hall,
London 55

33. Locking hooks, turning pins, and strap cover 55

34. Bracket for jousting-sallad. Dresden, C, 3, 4 57

35. Detail showing proof mark on the breast of suit of
Louis XIV. Paris, G, 125 69

36. Proof marks on a brigandine plate in the Darmstadt
Museum 71

37. Poleynes on the brass of Sir Robert de Bures, Acton,
Suffolk, 1302 74

38. Beinbergs on the statue of Guigliemo Berardi, 1289, in
the Cloisters of the Church of the Annunziata, Florence 74

39. Brass of an unknown knight at Laughton, Lincs, 1400 75

40. Pourpointed cuisses, from the brass of Sir John de
Argentine, Horseheath Church, Cambs, 1360 83

41. Padded horse-armour, from King René’s _Traicté d’un
Tournois_ 85

42. Padded “harnische-kappe” and helm showing the
attachment of the cap, after Dürer 89

43. Sallad-cap, from a picture by Paolo Morando, 1486-1522,
No. 571. Uffizi Gallery, Florence 89

44. Helmet-cap, from a XVI-cent. engraving of Jacob Fugger 89

45. Detail of eyelet coats, XVI-XVII cent. Musée
d’Artillerie and Musée Cluny, Paris 91

46. Sallad with cover, from a XVI-cent. engraving 93

47. Cuirass, from the sketch-book of Willars de Honecourt,
XIII cent. 96

48. Leather gauntlet, XVII cent. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 96

49. Brassard of leather and cord for the tourney, from King
René’s _Traicté d’un Tournois_ 97

50. Leather and steel hat of Bradshaw the regicide.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 99

51. Stripping the dead, from the Bayeux Tapestry 105

52. Knight arming, from the _Livre des Nobles Femmes_, Bib.
Nat., Paris, XIV cent. 105

53. Brass of Sir John de Creke, 1325, Westley Waterless,
Cambs. 106

54. Arming-points, from the portrait of a navigator.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 108

55. Attachment of brassard, from the portrait of the Duc de
Nevers. Hampton Court Palace 108

56. Moton attached by points. Harl. MS. 4826 109

57. Arming-points on the foot, from a picture of S.
Demetrius by Ortolano. National Gallery, London 109

58. Sixteenth-century suit of plate with the several parts
named in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish 110

59. Attachment of jousting-helms to the cuirass 112

60. Side view of the above 112

61. The armourer in the lists. Heralds’ Coll., MS. M, 6,
fol. 56 113

62. Arms of the Armourers’ Company of London 120

63. Design on a gauntlet of the suit made for Henry, Prince
of Wales, by William Pickering, _circ._ 1611. Windsor
Castle 122

64. Mark of Bernardino Cantoni on a brigandine, C, II. Real
Armeria, Madrid 133

65. Detail of shield by Desiderius Colman (Plate XXIV) 135

66. Capital formerly in the Via degli Spadari, Milan,
showing the mark of the Missaglia family 138

67. Design on the left cuisse of Henry VIII’s suit, made by
Conrad Seusenhofer. Tower of London, II, 5 141

68. Design by Jacobe Topf for gauntlet and armet of Sir
Henry Lee, from the _Armourer’s Album_. Victoria and Albert
Museum 146

69. Design on the breast of Sir Henry Lee’s suit by Topf.
Armourers’ Hall, London 146

LIST OF PLATES

Venus at the Forge of Vulcan, by Jan Breughel and Hendrik
van Balen, _circ._ 1600. Kaiser Friedrich Museum,
Berlin _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE
I. Armour for the “Stechzeug,” XV-XVI cent. Germanische
Museum, Nuremberg 4

II. Armour of the fifteenth century exemplified by the
effigy of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, S. Mary’s
Church, Warwick, cast by Bartholomew Lambspring and Will
Austin, _circ._ 1454, from Blore’s _Monumental Remains_. S.
George, by Andrea Mantegna, 1431-1506, Accademia, Venice.
Armour of Roberto di Sanseverino, by Antonio da Missaglia,
_circ._ 1480; Waffensammlung, Vienna, No. 3 8