This is more or less a poetic licence, for the riveting was only done on each separate piece, and these were joined on the wearer with straps, arming-points, or turning-pins. Of course this entry should be taken as made at the year when Shakespeare wrote, and not as representing an actual occurrence at Agincourt. 1562. _State Papers Domestic, Elizabeth, Vol. XXI_, 14. Due also to the armorers of the Tower for their wages & for leather, buckels, nailes & other paiments in indent to the said armory at the feast of Christmas last past vj^{li} xv^s In this entry are mentioned arming nails, butret nails, hammers, punshions, sheres, fyles, sand for scouring, cords, points, oyletholes, tow and butten nails. 1574. _State Papers Domestic, Elizabeth, Vol. XCIX_, 50. The monthly charge ordinary, vez coles, stele Iron nayles, buckills & lether &c. vij^{li} 1593. _Auditor’s Privy Seal Book_, 353. Elizabeth to the Treasurer & Chamberlain of the Exchequer. Whereas we ... are informed that the mills serving for our Armoury at Greenwich are decayed, you are to pay to Sir H. Lee such sums as are necessary for the repairs ... for the mills not to exceed £80. 1622. _Record Office, Sir Henry Lee’s Accounts of the Armoury._ The following details are mentioned:-- Redskins for bordering of armour, calfskins for the same, leather for gauntlets, Round headed nails, Tynned nails, flat headed nails, white nails, yellow nails, double buckels, buckels, nails and taches for gantlets, copper nails, brockases, tacejoyntz. The “nails” here mentioned are rivets of iron or brass or copper. Some were tinned to prevent rusting, a custom which was practised as early as 1361, for we find in one of the inventories of Dover Castle[52] under that date “xiii basynetz tinez.” The “taches” for gauntlets were fastenings of some kind, possibly turning-pins. The “brockases” were also probably brooches or fastenings of some sort, and the “tacejoyntz” hinges for attaching the tassets to the taces. 1624. _State Papers Domestic, Jac. I, Vol. CLXXX_, 71, 72. _Erection of Plating-mills by Capt. Martin at Erith._ (This document is quoted at length in Appendix J, p. 188.) The rates for Plaetes and armors exectly examined for the prices the strength and lightness considered are thus reduced. The chardge of a tun of Armer plaetes £18 0 0 Two chaldron of coles wt. carriadge will be 11 2 0 Reparation for the mill 12 0 The workmen for battering this tun of plaetes 4 0 0 The armourers may make them wt due shape black nayle and lether them for 7 10 0 etc. etc. The entries in this document will be examined fully on page 41. 1631. _Fœdera, xix, p_. 312. Rymer. Unstriking new fyling russetting new nayling lethering and lyning of a cuirassiers armor i iii 0