Transcriber's Note: This text contains two books which were bound in a single volume: "Armour in England" and "Foreign Armour in England", both by J. Starkie Gardner. Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including inconsistent hyphenation. The tables of contents were created by the transcriber. In the first book, Sir Noël Paton's Christian name was spelled "Noel"; this has been retained. On page 47, in the sentence starting "A little later, as at the battle of Montlhéry," "Montlhéry" is a correction of "Montlhery". Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. Letters preceded by carets appeared as superscipts. OE ligatures have been expanded. [Illustration: PLATE I.--Full suit of armour of Henry, Prince of Wales, in the guard-chamber at Windsor Castle. Attributed to William Pickering, master armourer.] ARMOUR IN ENGLAND FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE REIGN OF JAMES THE FIRST _By_ J. STARKIE GARDNER [Illustration] LONDON SEELEY AND CO. LIMITED, GREAT RUSSELL STREET NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1897 CONTENTS PAGE I. The Britons--An Early Age of Plate-Armour 5 II. The Mailed Warrior 9 III. The Transition Period--From about the Reign of Edward I. to that of Richard II., 1272-1399 27 IV. The Age of Plate-Armour 45 V. The Age of Enriched Armour 78 INDEX 99 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _COLOURED PLATES_ PAGE I. Full suit of armour of Henry, Prince of Wales, in the Guard-chamber at Windsor Castle. Attributed to William Pickering, master-armourer _Frontispiece_ II. Second suit of Sir Henry Lee, Master of the Armoury, reduced facsimile of No. 19 in the Armourers' Album in the South Kensington Museum 28 III. First suit of Sir Christopher Hatton, Captain of the Guard, and subsequently Lord Chancellor. Reduced facsimile of No. 15 in the Armourers' Album in the South Kensington Museum 40 IV. Grand-guard of the suit of George, Earl of Cumberland, in the possession of Lord Hothfield. This is a part of the 20th suit in the Armourers' Album in the South Kensington Museum 46