1. BRIDLE GAUNTLET. 2. RIGHT HAND GAUNTLET BY JACOB TOPF, PART OF THE “LEICESTER” SUIT. 3. BRIDLE GAUNTLET OF JAMES I. 4. XV CENT. GAUNTLET WITH “GADLINGS” ON THE KNUCKLES. 5. LOCKING GAUNTLET, XVI CENT. 6. BRIDLE GAUNTLET, XVI CENT. 7. PARADE GAUNTLET BY HEINRICK KNOPF, 1590. 8. GAUNTLET FOR FIGHTING AT BARRIERS, XVI CENT. 9. GORGET BY JACOP JORINGK, 1669.] Besides the making of undergarments or complete defences of linen overgarments, pourpoints, the Linen Armourers, as we find them called in the City of London Records, made linings for helmets. This was a most important detail in the equipment of a man, for the helm or helmet was worse than useless if it did not fit securely and if the head was not adequately padded to take off the shock of the blow. In the Sloane MS. 6400, we find among the retinue of Henry V at Agincourt, “Nicholas Brampton, a stuffer of bacynets,” and in the Oxford City Records under the date 1369 are the entries “Bacynet 13/4, stuffing for ditto 3/4.” In the Hastings MS. (_Archæologia_, LVII), among the items given as the “Abilment for the Justus of the Pees,” the first on the list is “a helme well stuffyd.” This stuffing consisted of a thickly padded cap or lining tied to the head-piece with strings, which are clearly shown in the well-known engraving of Albert Dürer, of a man and a woman supporting a shield on which is a skull (Fig. 42, 2). There are some of these caps in the Waffensammlung, Vienna, which have been noticed in Vol. II of the _Zeitschrift für Historische Waffenkunde_. [Illustration: FIG. 42. 1. Padded “harnisch-kappe,” Vienna. 2. Helm showing attachment of cap and lining (after Dürer).] The original lining of Sir Henry Lee’s helmet (Plate XIII) is still _in situ_; this, however, is riveted to the helmet and follows the shape of the head. In this respect it is different from the helmet-cap, which was padded. A padded cap was worn independently of the lining of the helmet. These are shown on Figs. 43, 44. Similar caps are shown on the following works of Dürer: S. George on foot, S. George (Stephan Baumgartner) and Felix Hungersbourg. [Illustration: FIG. 43. Sallad-cap (from a picture by Paolo Morando, 1486-1522, No. 571, Uffizi, Florence). FIG. 44. Helmet-cap (from a sixteenth-century engraving of Iacob Fugger).] 1586. _Chronicles_, Raphael Holinshed (edit. 1807, II, xvi, 333). Our armour differeth not from that of other nations, and therefore consisteth of corselets, almaine riuets, shirts of maile, iackes quilted and couered ouer with leather, fustian, or canuas, ouer thicke plates of iron that are sowed in the same, & of which there is no towne or village that hath not hir conuenient furniture.