[Illustration: FIGS. 182-184.--Figures from the monument of Lady Percy in Beverley Minster, _d._ 1330.] In the spandrels of the canopy of a monument to Lady Eleanor Fitzalan, wife of the first Lord Percy of Alnwick, in Beverley Minster, who died in 1330, are seven military figures exemplifying this period of armour, and in one or two cases the helmets are reinforced by a larger plate which descends to the back of the neck and to each shoulder, over which it curves outwards so as to nearly cover the camail. These pieces are riveted on to the bascinet proper, which is generally furnished with a huge visor. A complete set of the figures in the canopy are here delineated, not in the cramped original postures, but in erect positions. They all possess points of difference, and a comparison of the various defences exemplified by each will give an excellent idea of the feeling which characterised the armour of this difficult period (Figs. 182-188). [Illustration: FIGS. 185-187.--Figures from the monument of Lady Percy in Beverley Minster, _d._ 1330.] [Illustration: FIG. 188.--Figure from the monument of Lady Percy in Beverley Minster, _d._ 1330.] [Illustration: FIG. 189.--Helm and crest, Sir Geoffrey Luterell, 1345.] The heaumes of the period were generally round-topped and furnished with movable visors, while the crest and its adjuncts at times assumed large, if not formidable, proportions. That of Sir Geoffrey Luterell, 1345, from the famous Luterell Psalter, is shown in Fig. 189, and that of Sir Hugh Hastings, 1347, in Fig. 190. [Illustration: FIG. 190.--Crested helm, Sir Hugh Hastings, 1347.] The shoulders were generally left unprotected, except by the mail of the hauberk, but occasionally roundels are used similar to those of the Cyclas era. Demi-brassarts covered the upper arms, shown in many illustrations of the period as overlapping lames of plate, occasionally complete and protecting the front as well as the back of the limb. Coudières, if worn, were invariably of cuir-bouilli, and of a pattern which is almost stereotyped, and shown in Fig. 191, the genouillières being of similar design. In Add. MS. 12,228 at the British Museum many combats of the period are depicted, and almost without exception coudières and genouillières of this pattern are shown. [Illustration: FIG. 191.--Bascinet and coudières, Meliadus MS. (Add. 12,228.)] [Illustration: FIG. 192.]