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Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

have the same appearance. An idea of the weight of the hauberk is cleverly conveyed by the artist in making the orange-coloured under-garment spring out below its lower edge. The sleeves of the hauberk are tight-fitting, and extend almost to the knuckles; the hauberk also does not stop at the neck, but is one with the large and full coif of mail, the upper portion of which is lost to sight beneath the low conical helmet. To prove conclusively the contemporary use of the chain shirt with and without the mail chausse, we reproduce an illustration from the illuminated Huntingfield Psalter, also in the Pierpont Morgan Library. This Psalter is of known English workman-*ship of the end of the XIIth century, and was formerly in Mendham Priory, Suffolk. The illumination chosen is from f. 156, 27, depicting the Israelites gathering from the shores of the Red Sea the armour of the drowned Egyptians. Helmets and hauberks are there in profusion (Fig. 84). The hauberks are large and complete, with long sleeves and coifs, all in one, exactly the same as those worn by the soldiers in the "Betrayal" illustra