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 the most interesting of all the Black Prince's achievements, his helm, will be found in Chapter IX, described among those of early date with which we are acquainted.

To continue our review of the complete knightly apparel well into the XIVth century, we will allude briefly to certain effigies made famous by Stothard's very accurate and complete work, noting the remarkable points in each.

John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall (Fig. 190). This effigy in the Chapel of St. Edmund in the abbey church of Westminster shows us the second son of Edward II, who was born at the Palace, Eltham, Kent, 1316, and died at Berwick upon Tweed in 1334. He is armed in all points, having gauntlets and sollerets of plate, although, curiously enough, to the latter are attached prick-spurs of an early type. Upon his head is a bascinet surrounded by a ducal coronet. The strange zigzag covering applied to the fastening of the camail to the bascinet is most interesting. A beautifully modelled sword of large proportion hangs at his left side.

From his monument in the chapel of St. Edmund, abbey church of Westminster. After Stothard

Reepham Church, Norfolk. After Stothard

Sir Roger de Kerdiston (Fig. 191). His effigy is in Reepham Church, Norfolk. He died in 1337 in the eleventh year of the reign of King Edward III. In fashion his armour approaches that of the Black Prince. It appears, indeed, almost as advanced, save for the type of the genouillères, which is early and reminiscent of the previous century. He is armed with a finely proportioned sword which has a large flattened octagonal pommel that is also duplicated upon his