It would be very difficult, but with this armament the case has been provided for. In this way, at triumphs and tourneys where lances are broken, there must be at the two ends of the lists a small scaffold the height of the stirrup, on which two or three persons can stand; that is to say, the rider, an armourer to arm him, and one other to help him, as it is necessary in these dangerous encounters that an armourer should always be at hand and that all should be ready. Then the rider being armed, and the horse brought near to the stand, he easily mounts him ... for this reason the horses must be steady. A little pen-drawing of the sixteenth century in a manuscript dealing with jousts (Heralds’ Coll., M, 6, 56) shows the armourer on one of these scaffolds at the end of the lists (Fig. 61). In the chapter on the Proving of Armour the question of disuse on account of weight was considered. From the sixteenth century and even earlier we have records of the discarding of armour because it hampered the wearer or for some equally cogent reason. The following extracts bear upon the subject:-- 1383. _Chroniques de Dugesclin_, line 5973 (edit. 1839). Leurs cuissieres osterent tres tous communement Par coi aler peussent trop plus legierement. This refers to the action of Sir Hugh Calverly at the battle of Mont Auray, who ordered his men to take off their cuisses in order to move more easily. 1590. _Discourses_, p. 4, Sir John Smith. But that which is more strange, these our such new fantasied men of warre doe despise and scorne our auncient arming of ourselves both on horseback and on foote saying that wee armed ourselves in times past with too much armour, or peces of yron as they terme it. And therefore their footmen piquers they doo allow for verie well armed when they weare their burganets, their collars, their cuirasses, and their backs, without either pouldrons, vambraces, gauntlets or tasses. Sir John Smith goes on to say that it was the discarding of his cuisses that cost Sir Philip Sidney his life, for he received a wound from a spent bullet which his armour might have deflected. 1619. _The Art of Warre_, Edward Davies. [the arquebusiers were loaded] with a heavie shirt of male and a burganet, by the time they have marched in the heat of summer or deepe of winter ten or twelve English miles they are more apt to rest than readie to fight. 1625. _Souldiers’ Accidence_, Markham. As for the pouldron or the vant-brace they must be spared because they are but cumbersome. Against these extracts we must place the opinions of military leaders who deplored the disuse of armour:-- 1632. _Militarie Instructions for the Cavallrie_, Cruso.