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The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth centuryFfoulkes, Charles John

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The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century

Name: The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century
Author: Ffoulkes, Charles John

Ffoulkes, Charles John

Armor -- History; Armorers; Weapons -- History

H. UNDERTAKING OF THE ARMOURERS’ COMPANY OF LONDON TO
  SUPPLY ARMOUR (Records of the Company, 1618)                     186

  I. PROCLAMATION AGAINST THE USE OF GOLD AND SILVER EXCEPT
  IN THE CASE OF ARMOUR (State Papers Dom. Jac. I, cv)             187

  J. ERECTION OF PLATING-MILLS AT ERITH (State Papers Dom.
  Jac. I, clxxx)                                                   188

  K. REGULATIONS AS TO THE HALL-MARK OF THE ARMOURERS’
  COMPANY (Rymer, XIX, 314)                                        191

  L. PETITION OF ARMOURERS (State Papers Dom. Car. I,
  cclxxxix, 93)                                                    192

  M. EXTRACT FROM THE SURVEY OF THE TOWER ARMOURY, 1660
  (Brit. Mus., Harl. MS. 7457)                                     193

  INDEX                                                            195

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

                                                                  PAGE

  1. Diagram showing the “glancing surface”                          4

  2. Diagram showing the position of the lance in jousting,
  from _Arch. Journ._, LV.                                           5

  3. Pauldrons on the statue of Colleoni, Venice, and of a
  Missaglia suit in the Waffensammlung, Vienna (Plate II)            6

  4. The solleret, practical and unpractical                         6

  5. Horse-armour                                                    8

  6. Harnischmeister Albrecht, from a painting in the
  Arsenal, Vienna                                                    9

  7. Cuissard for the off hock of a horse. Musée Porte de
  Hal, Brussels                                                     10

  8. Arms of the Armourers’ Gild, Florence. From the Church
  of Or San Michele                                                 14

  9. S. George, by Hans Multscher, 1458. Augsburg                   14

  10. Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, arming. Brit. Mus.,
  Cott., Jul., E, IV, fol. 12 b                                     15

  11. The Westminster helm                                          17

  12. The Brocas helm                                               17

  13. The Fogge helm                                                17

  14. The Barendyne helm                                            17

  15. The Mail-maker, from Jost Amman’s _Stande und
  Handwerker_, _circ._ 1590                                         23

  16. The Armourer, from the same source as the above               24

  17. Burring-machine or “jenny,” from the picture by
  Breughel given on the frontispiece                                36

  18. Method of making mail, from _Arch. Journ._, XXXVII            45

  19. Representations of double and single mail, from the
  effigy of Robert de Mauley, formerly in York Minster,
  _Archæologia_, XXXI                                               45

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The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century

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