The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century

Be it remembered that in ye hustinge of comon plaes holden ye Mondaie in ye feaste of ye conversion of Saint Paule, ye yere of ye reigne of our Lord ye king Edward, ye son of ki...

Item, lautre faczon est de brigandines ou aultrement dit currassines, couvertez et clouées par pièces petittes depuis la poitrine en a bas, ne ny a aultre différance de celle cy...

It may be only romance or it may be fact, but certainly Oliver de la Marche,[85] writing about the year 1450, describes some such process of tempering armour after it was made....

No armed man should weare any cut doublets, as well in respect that the wearing of armour doth quicklie fret them out and also by reason that the corners and edges of the lames...

5. =Subservience of decoration to the preceding rules.=--The best suits are practically undecorated, but at the same time there are many which are ornamented with incised or eng...

This celebrated engraver was the son of Hans Burgmair or Burgkmair. There is some confusion between the father and son, but the former seems to have worked either as a maker or...

On Fig. 34 is shown the support for the jousting-sallad, without which it was always liable to be struck off. It is screwed with wing nuts to the crest of the sallad and to the...

When the wire was obtained, either hammered out or drawn, it was probably twisted spirally round a rod of the diameter of the required ring. It was then cut off into rings, with...

The barrel was here used in the same way. The mail was placed inside with sand and vinegar and rolled and shaken. The same method is still practised in some districts for cleani...

This is more or less a poetic licence, for the riveting was only done on each separate piece, and these were joined on the wearer with straps, arming-points, or turning-pins. Of...

The tools used by the armourers of all nations differ but little from the implements of the blacksmith and, as will be seen in considering the various inventories that survive,...

The chardge of a tun of Armor plaetes £18 0 0 Two chaldron of coles wt. carriage will be 1 12 0 The workmen for battering this tun of plaetes will have uppon every hundred 4/- 4...

The last entry in the Milanese Archives relating to Antonio refers to his mines and furnaces in a letter to Bona di Savoia, April 20th, 1480. In the MSS. Lib., Trivulziano, is a...

This refers to the action of Sir Hugh Calverly at the battle of Mont Auray, who ordered his men to take off their cuisses in order to move more easily.

Viscount Dillon, Curator of the Tower Armouries; Mr. Guy Laking, M.V.O., King’s Armourer; M. Charles Buttin, Paris; Mr. Albert Calvert, London; The Society of Antiquaries; The A...

... halbadiers ... armed with burganets and with short skirted Ierkins of buffe with a double buffe on their breasts and the sleeves of their doublets with stripes of maile or s...

Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of each chapter or Appendix. The numbers [376] to [383] in Appendix C are part of the quo...

_Gusset_, pieces of chain mail, tied with points to the “haustement” to cover those portions of the body not protected with plate armour; they were usually eight in number, viz....

_Angon_, a javelin used in the VI cent. The head was heavy and the top part of the shaft thin, so that it bent on impact and thus hampered the stricken man, =G=.

INDEX. There were several references to the Preface at pages ‘vii’ and ‘viii’. This numbering was incorrect and has been changed to ‘ix’ and ‘x’. Kelk: ‘“Manakine,” 125’ replace...