Few of the actual tools of the armourer survive to us at the present day. In the Burges Bequest in the British Museum is a fine anvil decorated with figures of saints in relief of the sixteenth century, which appears to have been used by a craftsman dealing with metal in plates or sheets, for the face of the anvil is burred over in a manner that would not be the case if the smith had worked with bars or rods, the usual materials of the blacksmith. In the same case is a pair of armourer’s pincers which resemble the _multum in parvo_ tools of to-day, for they include hammer, wire-cutter, nail-drawer, and turnscrew (Plate V). A similar pair of pincers exists in the Rotunda Museum, Woolwich (XVI, 200). In the Wallace Collection (No. 88) is an armourer’s hammer of the sixteenth century with a faceted copper head, the reason for which was probably the need for avoiding scratching the surface when finishing a piece. In the same collection is a finely decorated farrier’s hammer (1002), which also includes a nail-drawer and turn-nut. The handle is inlaid with brass and mother-of-pearl and is decorated with engravings of S. George and a musketeer of about 1640. A decorated anvil and vice which were catalogued as those of an armourer, the property of Mr. Ambrose Morell, were exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, in 1911, but from the form and size of the tools they would appear to have been rather those of the silversmith than of the armourer. Jost Amman’s “Armourer” (Fig. 16) calls for no special notice, as no tools are shown in the workshop, and is merely of interest as being included in this _Book of Trades_, published in 1590. [Illustration: _PLATE VI_ MAXIMILIAN AND HIS ARMOURER, CONRAD SEUSENHOFER FROM THE WEISZ KÜNIG] The earliest inventory containing armourers’ tools is found in the archives of the city of Lille. It is dated 1302 and refers to the effects of the Constable de Nesle in the Hôtel de Soissons, Paris. The inventory is a long one and includes many interesting details of furniture, fabrics, and armour. That portion relating to the tools runs as follows:-- _Arch. Dept. du Nord. Fonds de la Chambre des Comptes de Lille, No. 4401._ Une englume et fos a souffler lx s. Unes tenailes bicournes, i martel et menus instruments de forge xiii s. vi d. Item unes venterieres v s. ” xxxviii fers faites xii s. viii d. ” sas a cleus, tenons environs v sommes xxi l. v s. ” xiii douzaines de fer de Bourgoyne xxii s. vi d. Another early inventory is that of Framlingham Castle, Norfolk, of the year 1308:-- ix capellae ferratae at iv s. iii vices ad eandem tendentes at ii s. The earliest complete English inventory of tools connected with the craft of the armourer occurs in the _Accounts of the Constable of Dover Castle_. Two separate lists are given at different dates, which may be studied with more convenience if placed side by side:--[9]