1611. Survey and inventory of all armour, etc., in the armouries of the Tower, Greenwich, and Windsor in the late custody of Sir Henry Lee, deceased, and now of Sir Thos. Monson, Master of the Armoury. _State Papers Domestic, Jac. I, lxiv, June 8._ 1614. Warrant to pay to Wm. Pickering, Master of the Armoury at Greenwich, £200, balance of £340, for armour gilt and graven for the late Prince. _Sign. Man., Vol. IV_, 29. This suit, made for Henry, Prince of Wales, is now in the Royal Collection at Windsor (see Plate XX). 1618. Undertaking of the Armourers’ Company to make certain armours every six months and the prices of the same. _Records of the Armourers’ Company of London_ (see Appendix H). 1619. Proclamation against the excessive use of gold and silver foliate except for armour and ensigns of honour. _S.P.D. Jac. I, cv, Feb., Proclamations_, 65 (see Appendix I). 1621. Gild of Armourers and Smiths incorporated at Shrewsbury by James I. The “Arbor” of the Gild existed at Kingsland in 1862. The Gild carried a figure of Vulcan dressed in black armour in their processions. Their motto was “With hammer and hand all hearts do stand.” The armour is in the Museum at Shrewsbury. _Reliquary, Vol. III._ 1624. Erection of plating-mills at Erith by Capt. John Martin. _S.P.D. Jac. I, clxxx_, 71 (see Appendix J). 1625. Falkner asks for an inquiry as to the condition of the Royal Armouries. _S.P.D. Car. I, xiii_, 96. 1627. Report of George, Earl of Totnes, on Falkner’s petition advising John Cooper, Keeper of the King’s Brigandines, to surrender his patent. _S.P.D. Car I, liv_, 1. Cooper refuses to surrender unless his arrears of 16d. a day for a year and a half are paid. _S.P.D. Car. I, lv_, 70. 1627. Petition of Falkner (Fawcknor) as to the condition of the armouries. _S.P.D. Car. I, lxxxiv_, 5. 1628. Order to gun-makers, saddlers, and cutlers to bring patterns of their wares. _S.P.D. Car. I, xcv_, March 10. 1628. Whetstone’s project to make armour lighter and as good as proof. _S.P.D. Car. I, lxxxix_, 23. No details as to the process are given in this entry. 1630. Inquiry into the work done in the State armouries of the Tower, Greenwich, etc., with lists of the Remaines, moved by Roger Falkenor. _S.P.D., clxxix_, 65. The whole of this document is given in _Antient Armour_, Sir S. Meyrick, III, 78. 1631. Regulations respecting the use of a hall-mark by the Armourers’ Company. _Rymer, XIX_, 309 (see Appendix K). 1635. Petition of the Workmen Armourers of London who are now old and out of work. _S.P.D. Car. I, cclxxxix_, 93 (see Appendix L). 1636. Benjamin Stone, blade-maker, of Hounslow Heath, states that he has, at his own charge of £6000, perfected the art of blade-making, and that he can make “as good as any that are made in the Christian world.” _S.P.D. Car. I, cccxli_, 132.