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Footnotes:

[1] Harl. MS. 4379, Brit. Mus.

[2] vi. 333, trans. Johnes, 1810.

[3] Archaeologia, xix. 128-30.

[4] Archaeologia, lix.

[5] Ancient Armour, ii. 138.

[6] Roman de Rou, 1. 13254 et seq.

[7] Protect.

[8] Archaeologia, xvii.

[9] Arch. Journ., ii. 349.

[10] Vol. iii. p. 165.

[11] New Foedera, ii. 203.

[12] Arch. Journ., lx. 95-136.

[13] Arch. Journ., lx. 95-136.

[14] Archaeologia, xvii.

[15] Arch. Journ., lxiv. 15-23.

[16] Carderera, Iconografia.

[17] The terms ‘coude’ and ‘genouillière’, ‘palette’, and such-like words of French origin, are open to some objection in an English work when ‘elbow-cop’, ‘knee-cop’, or ‘poleyne’ and ‘rondel’ can be substituted. They are only employed here because of their general use in armouries at the present day, and because the English words are of rarer occurrence and are less likely to be met with by those beginning the study of armour. ‘Cuisse’ and ‘cuissard’, however, are always used for the thigh-pieces, and no anglicized term is found in contemporary writings unless it be ‘Quysshews.’

[18] Arch. Journ., lx.

[19] Archaeologia, vol. lvii; Arch. Journ., vol. iv.

[20] Arch. Journ., vol. lx.

[21] Boeheim, Meister der Waffenschmiedkunst; De Cosson, Arch. Journ., vol. xlviii.

[22] Arch. Journ., lx.

[23] G. Chastelain, p. 679.

[24] Arch. Journ., xxxvii.

[25] Oliver de la Marche, p. 288.

[26] N.E. Dict, gives Armette, a diminutive of Arme. Armez is also found.

[27] Paris, 1606, fol. 42. See Cat. of Helmets, Arch. Journ., xxxvii.

[28] Arch. Journ., xxxvii.

[29] The term Bufe is sometimes wrongly used for the upright shoulder-guards on the pauldron.

[30] Monumenta Vetusta, vol. vi.

[31] This is not the ‘garde-rein’. See p. 62.

[32] That this fashion in helmets was a general one we may judge from the fact that most armouries possess examples of these human-faced helmets.

[33] This suit is shown with the brayette attached; which for obvious reasons is exhibited in most armouries separate from the suit.

[34] Considered to be the same as Topf.

[35] ‘... granz gisarmes esmolues’ (Roman de Rou, l. 12907).

‘... gisarmes lunges è lées’ (ib., l. 13431).

[36] Monumenta Vetusta, vol. vi.