LONDON SEELEY AND CO., LIMITED, GREAT RUSSELL STREET NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1898 CONTENTS PAGE I. INTRODUCTORY 5 II. CHAIN MAIL 17 III. GOTHIC ARMOUR 23 IV. ENRICHED ARMOUR 56 V. FIREARMS AND GUNLOCKS By Major V. A. FARQUHARSON 84 INDEX 95 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _COLOURED PLATES_ PAGE I. Painted Wooden Shield of the fifteenth century. British Museum _Frontispiece_ II. A Marauder of the "Bandes de Picardie." Mr. J. F. Sullivan 14 III. Half Suit, engraved and parcel-gilt. Duke of Westminster 24 IV. Gold Damascening on russet ground. Late Italian suit. Tower of London 30 V. Breast-plate, embossed and parcel-gilt. French. Mr. David Currie 38 VI. Casque of an Officer of the Guard of Cosmo de' Medici. Mr. David Currie 44 VII. Lower part of enriched Chanfron. Suit of Charles I. when prince. Tower of London 72 VIII. Two Wheel-locks. German and French. Of the seventeenth century. Major Farquharson 84 _ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT_ 1. Mail Hauberk from Sinigaglia. Sir Noël Paton's Collection 19 2. Standard Collar of Mail. Royal Artillery Institution 21 3. Gothic Armour. Said to be from the Church of Irene at Constantinople. At Parham 26 4, 5. Gothic Armour. Said to be from an old mansion in the Tyrol. Front and Back views. Sir Noël Paton's Collection 27 6. Gothic Armour. Probably Italian. Sir Noël Paton's Collection 29 7. St. Michael. By Perugino. National Gallery 31 8. The Battle of Sant' Egidio. By Uccello. National Gallery 33 9. Carved Relief from the Visconti Tomb in the Certosa at Pavia. South Kensington Museum 35 10. German late Gothic Suit. Collection of Mr. Morgan Williams 42 11. Suit of Maximilian Fluted Armour. Belonging to Mr. Percy Macquoid 43 12. Maximilian Armour from Eaton Hall. In the possession of the Duke of Westminster, K.G. 45 13. Engraved Maximilian Breast-plate. Burges Collection in the British Museum 46 14. Portrait. By Piero di Cosimo. National Gallery 47