It is not the intention of the present section to deal with the various details of defensive armour except only as far as those details bear directly on the employment of fabrics, therefore the construction of the brigandine, which is well known to all students of the subject of armour and weapons, will be found under the heading of the Craft of the Armourer on page 49. The same may be said of the horn and metal jacks which were a humbler form of the brigandine. The most concise descriptions of such armour will be found in the Catalogue of Helmets and Mail by de Cosson and Burgess (_Arch. Journ._, XXXVII). Guiart in his Chronicles, written in the early part of the fourteenth century, speaks of “cotes faitices de coton a pointz entailliez.” These were probably common doublets, quilted or laced like the jack. Few of these defences of fabric have survived, owing to the ravages of moth and damp. In the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford, are a pair of culottes or drawers lined with thin busks of steel, and also two sets of rose-pink silk doublets, breast, back, and fald padded with cotton, both presumably of the late sixteenth century; they are noticed in _Arms and Armour at Oxford_, by the present writer, but no definite history is known of either of the specimens. Doublets and “coats of fence” of this nature occur frequently in inventories and other documents, but the following extracts give certain definite details which bear directly on the subject. 1150-1200 (?). _Speculum Regale, Kongs-Skugg-Sio_, edit. 1768, pp. 405-6 (actual date unknown). For the rider the following accoutrements are necessary: coverings for the legs, made of well-blacked soft linen sewed, which should extend to the kneeband of his chaucons or breeches; over these steel shin-pieces so high as to be fastened with a double band. The horseman to put on linen drawers, such as I have pointed out. (Of the horse) let his head, bridle, and neck, quite to the saddle, be rolled up in linen armour, that no one may fraudulently seize the bridle or the horse. [Illustration: _PLATE XXI_ HALF ARMOUR, CIRC. 1520 TONLET SUIT BY CONRAD LOCHNER, 1510-1567 “MAXIMILIAN” ARMOUR, CIRC. 1515]