The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth centuryFfoulkes, Charles John
History
The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century
Ffoulkes, Charles John
Armor -- History; Armorers; Weapons -- History
in the sketch in the Album
(Plates XXVI, XXVIII).
19. Sr. Henry Lee, Mr. of tharmerie Armet in the Tower (IV, 29).
(2nd suit). Locking-gauntlet in the Hall of
the Armourers’ and Braziers’
Co., London (Plate XIII, Figs.
32, 68). Burgonet, buffe, and
leg-armour at Stockholm.
20. The Earle of Cumberlande Appleby Castle.
21. Sr. Cristopher Hatton (3rd suit).
22. Mr. Macke Williams.
23. My L. Chancellor [Sir Thomas
Bromley].
24. My L. Cobbon.
25. Sir Harry Lea Mr. of the Armore Hall of the Armourers and Braziers’
(3rd suit). Company, London. On each side of
the breast in the band of
engraving are the initials A. V.
(Fig. 69), which probably stand
for Anne Vavasour, natural
daughter of Sir T. Vavasour and
Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen
Elizabeth. The _Nat. Dict. of
Biog._ states that she was Sir
Henry Lee’s mistress.
26. My Lorde Cumpton Portions of this and of the next
suit were formerly at Home Lacy
and are now in the Metropolitan
Museum, New York.
27. Mr. Skidmur [John Scudamor].
28. My Lorde Bucarte Wallace Collection, 435.
29. Sr. Bale Desena.
There is also a suit at Vienna (491), made for Archduke Carl of
Steiermark, which Boeheim considered to be from Topf’s hands.
Fuller details of the above suits will be found in the reproduction
of the Album above referred to, and also in _Arch. Journ._, LI, 113.
[Illustration: FIG. 68. Gauntlet and armet of Sir Henry Lee (from
the _Armourer’s Album_, Victoria and Albert Museum). See also Plate
XIII and Fig. 32.]
[Illustration: FIG. 69. Rubbing of design on breast of Sir Henry
Lee’s suit, Armourers’ Hall, London.]
FOOTNOTES:
[143] Meister der Waffenschmiedkunst.
[144] _Arch. Jour._, XLVIII.
[145] See page 66.
LIST OF ARMOURERS’ MARKS
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