Armour & Weapons
Forfatter: Charles Ffoulkes
År: 1909
Forlag: At The Clarendon Press
Sted: Oxford
Sider: 112
UDK: 623 Ffou
With A Preface By Viscount Dillon, V.P.S.A. Curator Of The Tower Armouries
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CHAP, in THE WEARING OF ARMOUR 67
so unwieldy as the suit of plate. There are several of these
brigandines in English and European armouries. These defences
weigh as much as 18 lb., and are made of many small pieces of
metal. An example in the Tower contains 1,164.1 Fig- 32, from
the Beauchamp Pageants (Cotton MS., Julius E. iv), shows an
archer of the year 1485 wearing the jack over a shirt of mail.
The Jack was used by the rank and file, and was stuffed and
wadded or composed of plates of metal or horn laced together with
string between layers of leather or linen.
1 Arch. Journ., lx.
E 2