_The Helmets_ are of the closed pattern, of the burgonet type, with an umbril or shade for the eyes, made after the style of a visor and coming well forward, while a falling bavière (Fig. 398) is hinged at the sides and projects well to the front, forming an occularium with the umbril (Fig. 396). A deep comb passes over the top of the helmet. The Sackville suit has a triple-barred face-guard as well (Fig. 397). A morion could be worn with these suits; it was an oval helmet with a high crest like a comb, and a brim which was peaked both before and behind (Fig. 415). _The Gorget_ consisted of four lames of plate. _Breastplates._--These are all of the peascod form with roped turnover borders and the goussets laminated with one plate. The backplates are secured to the breastplates by steel straps over the shoulders and under the arms (Figs. 397 and 398). [Illustration: FIG. 397.--Face-guard, breastplate, tace, and tassets, Jacobi armour, 1575.] [Illustration: FIG. 398.--Falling bufe and backplate, Jacobi suit.] _Taces_ are of four plates adapted to cover the bombasted breeches. In the Wallace suit the taces are of one plate only, to which are permanently affixed the _Tassets_ of four plates, and these may be detached from the lower edge of the breastplate if required, so as to permit of the bombasted breeches being worn with no covering, the breastplate being finished at the lower edge to allow of it. In other suits, however, the lobster-tail tassets descend to the knees in a dozen or more lames of plate, where they are covered by the genouillières. [Illustration: FIG. 399.--Reinforcing breastplate, grevières, sabbatons, and gauntlet, Jacobi armour, 1575. (Wallace Collection.)] _Genouillières_ are of a close-fitting pattern, with small plates defending the outside bends of the legs, and two or more reinforcing plates above and below. _Jambarts._--These are splinted and laminated at the ankles. _Sabbatons_ are round-toed, closely fitting, and composed of about ten plates (Fig. 399). _Pauldrons._--These are of about five plates coming well forward in order to protect the goussets (Fig. 400). _Brassarts_ cover the upper arms and are provided with _Turners_, a device for allowing the arm protections to revolve. The brassarts were made generally in two plates, one having a hollow roped border which fitted over a solid rim provided for it upon the adjoining plate, thus allowing a complete revolution of half the brassart. In addition the arms are protected by coudières and vambraces. [Illustration: FIG. 400.--Pauldron, Jacobi armour.] [Illustration: FIG. 401.--“Forbidden” gauntlet. (Tower of London.)]