Froissart describes the champion Dimeth, at the coronation of Henry IV, as being “tout couvert de mailles de vermeil, chevalier et cheval.”[96] This painting of armour was frequently indulged in both for the above practical reason and also for personal adornment. Tinning was also used for protecting armour from wet (_vide_ page 33 _sub ann._ 1622). Armour in the Dresden Armoury and elsewhere is painted black. Hall in his Chronicles in the account of the funeral of Henry V states that men-at-arms in black armour rode in the procession. The armour in the seventeenth century was often blacked or russeted. Suits of this kind are to be seen in the Gun Wharf Museum at Portsmouth and elsewhere. Haselrigg’s “lobsters” were so called, according to Clarendon,[97] because of their “bright shells.” It is quite possible that their armour was blacked. In the Lansdowne MS. 73, William Poore suggested a remedy for “preserving armour from pewtrifying, kankering or rusting,” but there are no details given of the method he employed; it was probably some kind of lacquer or varnish. Among the Archives of the Compte du tresor de Savoie (63 f. 157) is mentioned a payment to Jehan de Saisseau “por vernicier une cotte d’aciel,” and in one of the Tower inventories (Harl. MS. 1419) of the year 1547 “a buckler of steel painted” occurs.[98] 1567. _S.P.D. Eliz., Add. xiii_, 104. Sundry payments for cleaning and repairing armour at the Tower, Hampton Court, and Greenwich at 10d. the day. 1580. _S.P.D. Eliz., cxli_, 42. A document written on the death of Sir George Howard ordering the cleaning and putting in order of the arms and armour at the Tower. 1628. _S.P.D. Car. I, xciii_, 61. Capt. John Heydon to Wm. Boswell, Clerk to the Council, for the new russeting of a corslet, 5sh. 1603. _Inventory of the Armoury at Hengrave._ Item one barrel to make clean the shirt of maile & gorgets. 1671. _Patent_ applied for by Wolfen Miller (John Caspar Wolfen, and John Miller), for twenty-one years, “for a certain oyle to keep armour and armes from rust and kanker” for £10 per annum. 1647 (_circ._). _Laws and Ordinances of Warr, Bod. Lib., Goodwin Pamphlets, cxvii_, 14.[99] Of a Souldiers duty touching his Arms. II. Slovenly Armour.--None shall presume to appeare with their Armes unfixt or indecently kept upon pain of Arbitrary correction. With regard to the keeping of armour in store two instances have been mentioned above under the dates 1296 and 1513. In addition to these we find that in 1470 in the _Chronique de Troyes_, the French soldiers were forbidden to carry their arms and armour in “paniers,” which, from the statement, was evidently a practice. In the Wardrobe Account of Edward I, 1281, published by the Society of Antiquaries, we find payments to Robinet, the King’s tailor, for coffers, sacks, boxes, and cases to contain the different parts of the armour.