47. Cuirass, from the sketch-book of Willars de Honecourt, XIII cent. 96 48. Leather gauntlet, XVII cent. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 96 49. Brassard of leather and cord for the tourney, from King René’s _Traicté d’un Tournois_ 97 50. Leather and steel hat of Bradshaw the regicide. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 99 51. Stripping the dead, from the Bayeux Tapestry 105 52. Knight arming, from the _Livre des Nobles Femmes_, Bib. Nat., Paris, XIV cent. 105 53. Brass of Sir John de Creke, 1325, Westley Waterless, Cambs. 106 54. Arming-points, from the portrait of a navigator. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 108 55. Attachment of brassard, from the portrait of the Duc de Nevers. Hampton Court Palace 108 56. Moton attached by points. Harl. MS. 4826 109 57. Arming-points on the foot, from a picture of S. Demetrius by Ortolano. National Gallery, London 109 58. Sixteenth-century suit of plate with the several parts named in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish 110 59. Attachment of jousting-helms to the cuirass 112 60. Side view of the above 112 61. The armourer in the lists. Heralds’ Coll., MS. M, 6, fol. 56 113 62. Arms of the Armourers’ Company of London 120 63. Design on a gauntlet of the suit made for Henry, Prince of Wales, by William Pickering, _circ._ 1611. Windsor Castle 122 64. Mark of Bernardino Cantoni on a brigandine, C, II. Real Armeria, Madrid 133 65. Detail of shield by Desiderius Colman (Plate XXIV) 135 66. Capital formerly in the Via degli Spadari, Milan, showing the mark of the Missaglia family 138 67. Design on the left cuisse of Henry VIII’s suit, made by Conrad Seusenhofer. Tower of London, II, 5 141 68. Design by Jacobe Topf for gauntlet and armet of Sir Henry Lee, from the _Armourer’s Album_. Victoria and Albert Museum 146 69. Design on the breast of Sir Henry Lee’s suit by Topf. Armourers’ Hall, London 146 LIST OF PLATES Venus at the Forge of Vulcan, by Jan Breughel and Hendrik van Balen, _circ._ 1600. Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin _Frontispiece_