ffirste ye muste sette on Sabatones and tye them up on the shoo with smale poyntes that wol breke And then griffus [greaves] & then quisses & [=he] the breeche of mayle And [=the] tonletis And the brest And [=he] vambras And [=he] rerebras And then glovys And then hange his daggere upon his right side And then his shorte swered upon the lyfte side in a rounde rynge all nakid to pull it oute lightlie. And then putte his cote upon his back And then his basinet pynid up on two greet staplis before the breste with a dowbill bokill behynde up on the bak for to make the bassinet sitte juste. And then his long swerde in his hande. And then his pensil in his hande peyntid of seynt George or of oure lady to blesse him with as he goeth towards the felde and in the felde. [Illustration: FIG. 54. Arming-points (from the portrait of a Navigator, Ashmolean Mus., Oxford). FIG. 55. Attachment of brassard by points (from the portrait of the Duc de Nevers, Hampton Court).] From the above extract it will be seen that the undergarments consisted of a thick doublet lined with silk, but with no shirt underneath; the reason for this being one that we at the present day can well appreciate, for when the body is hot from exertion and exercise a shirt is apt to “ruck up,” and it would be impossible to readjust it when fully armed. In the _Paston Letters_ we have the following request from Edward IV:-- Item I praye you to send me a newe vestmente off whyght damaske ffor a Dekyn, whyche is among myn other geer, I will make an armyng Doublet off it. [Illustration: _PLATE XXIX_ ARMET, MIDDLE OF XVI CENT. ARMET ENGRAVED AND GILT, END OF XVI CENT. HELM OF SIR RICHARD PEMBRIDGE, CIRC. 1360 PARADE CASQUE, AFTER NEGROLI, MIDDLE OF XVI CENT. SALLAD BY ONE OF THE NEGROLIS, END OF XV CENT.] [Illustration: FIG. 56. Moton attached by points (from Harl. MS. 4826).] The gussets and, in the sixteenth century, the sleeves of mail protected the bend of the arm and armpit, and sometimes the bend of the knee, which were not adequately covered with plate. The two portraits of unknown noblemen by Moroni (National Gallery) show these details of the equipment very clearly (Plate XVIII). The arming-points or “tresses” were used in civilian as well as in military attire and joined the hose to the doublet, laced sleeves, and held coats together, much as laces are used in ladies’ dresses at the present day (Figs. 54-57). They are also shown tying up the hose on Fig. 52 and the brayette on Plate VIII. [Illustration: FIG. 57. Arming-points on the foot (from the picture of S. Demetrius, by Ortolano, Nat. Gall.).]