Small but attractive accessories to these handsome sets of mediæval Spanish harness were the decorative medals (Plate lx.) hung from the horse's breast in tourneying or in war. In France these medals were known as _annelets volants_, _branlants_, or _pendants_; although in Spain, where it is probable that they were used more widely than in other countries, they have no definite name. The term _jaeces_ is sometimes applied to them; but _jaez_ properly means the entire harness for a horse, and the word is thus employed by classic Spanish authors, such as Tirso de Molina. A recent term, invented by a living writer, is _jaeces colgantes_, or "hanging _jaeces_." These ornaments, which had their origin among the Romans and Byzantines, are figured in certain of the older Spanish codices such as the _Cántigas de Santa Maria_. In Christian Spain, however, their vogue was greatest in the thirteenth and the fourteenth centuries. They disappeared altogether in the sixteenth century; and among the Spanish Moors their use, though not unknown, was always quite exceptional. The mottoes and devices on these little plates are very varied. Sometimes the motto has an amorous, sometimes a religious import. Sometimes the vehicle of the motto is Latin, sometimes Spanish, sometimes French. Sometimes the device contains, or is composed of, a blazon, and commonly there is floral or other ornament. A collection of nearly three hundred of these medals belonged to the late Count of Valencia de Don Juan, all of which were probably made in Spain. The material as a rule is copper, adorned with _champlevé_ enamelling, and the colours often used to decorate and relieve the interspaces of the gilded metal are red, blue, black, white, and green. [Illustration: LXI TRAVELLING LITTER (_Attributed to Charles the Fifth. Royal Armoury, Madrid_)]