Armour in England From the Earliest Times to the Reign of James the First
Armour in England From the Earliest Times to the Reign of James the First
John Starkie Gardner
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Fig. 13. — Bassitiet from the tomb of Sir John de Melsa, Aldborough Church, Holderness. From a photograph by Baron de Cosson. older chapelle-de-fer worn with the hood of mail, in having the mail hung round it, instead of passing over or under it. This mail, now called the camail or gorget, was laced to a series of staples along the edges of the bassinet and fell like a curtain on to the shoulders. At the outset merely a skull-cap, it was gradually prolonged at the back and sides so as to leave ...only the face exposed. Early in the fourteenth century its appearance was profoundly modified by the addition of a movable visor, at first hinged at the side, but subsequently raised and lowered from above the forehead. Being readily removed, the visor was only worn in action, and is thus rarely represented in effigies and brasses. No helm was worn over the visored bassinet, which became the battle head-piece of the fourteenth century and part of the fifteenth. ARMOUR IN ENGLAND 2?> the helm being reserved for jousts and tournaments.
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