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 2o6 Hijiory of Domejlic Manners material is the tooth of the walrus (the northern ivory) ; it reprefents a knight on both fides, one wielding a lance, the other a fword, the intervening fpaces being filled with No. 143. CficJJ-man of the Fourteenth Century. over which houfings are placed, and the head with foliage. Another knight, made of real ivory, is reprefented in our cut No. 143, taken from an engraving in the third volume of the Archceo- logkalJournal, where it is fi:ated to be in the polTeffion of the Rev. J. Eagles, of Worcefter. It belongs to the reign of Edward III. Here the knight is on horfeback, and wears chain-mail and plate. The body of the horfe is entirely covered with chain-mail plate-armour. All who are acquainted with the general charatter of mediaeval carving will fuppofe that theie ornamental chefl-men were of large dimenfions, and confequently rather clumfy for ufe. The largefl; of thole found in the Ifle of Lewis, a king, is upwards of four inches in height, and nearly feven inches in circumference. They were hence rather for- midable weapons in a ftrong hand, and we find them ufed as fuch in fome of the fcenes of the early romances. According to one verfion of the death of Bauduin, the illegitimate fon of Ogier, the young prince Charles ftruck him with the rook fo violent a blow that he made his two eyes fly out : — Ld le dona Callos le eop mortel Si com juoit as ejke's et as de's ; La le fer'i d^un rok par tel jierte's, Siu.e andus les elx li fijt du cief •voler. —Ogier de Danemarche, I. 90. A rather rude illumination is one of the manufcripts, of which M. Barrois has given a fac-fimile in his edition of this romance, repre- fenting Charles ftriking his opponent with the rook. According to another verfion of the ftory, the young prince, ufing the rook as' a miffile, threw it at him. An incident in the romance of the " Quatre Fils d'Aymon,"