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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PLATE ARMOUR
CHAP. IV
of the war harness gradually decrease. The richly-ornamented
suits which mark this period were in no way suited for any practical
purpose and were used only for parades. Extended campaigns
and long marches necessitated lighter equipment, and we find in
contemporary records instances, not only of the men-at-arms dis-
carding their armour owing to its inconvenience, but also of
Fig. 35. Tonlet suit.
Madrid.
Fig. 36. War suit, 1547.
Vienna Armoury.
commanders ordering them to lighten their equipment for greater
rapidity of movement. Sir Richard Hawkins, in his Observations
on his voyage into the South Sea (1593), writes: ‘I had great
preparation of armours as well of proofe as of light corsletts, yet
not a man would use them, but esteemed a pott of wine a better
defence than an armour of proofe.’ Again, Sir John Smythe, in
his Instructions, Observations and Orders Militarie (1595), writes :
• • • ‘ I saw but very few of that army (at the camp at Tilbury)