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 short and slightly belled in the cuffs. Each cuff is composed of two lames. There are flattened gadlings upon the knuckle and finger joints. The leg defences, though very complete, are carried out in the extreme simplicity of the rest of the armour. They, however, show cuisses of great length, and the last plate of the genouillère is of unusual depth, extending a third of the way down the jamb, as in the manner of the earlier Missaglia suits (page 177, Fig. 212). The sollerets are pointed, and composed of five deep plates very characteristic of their period, but non-existent in any actual specimen handed down to us. No rivets, hinges, or straps appear on this effigy, which fact, together with the armour's simplicity and entire lack of ornamentation, leads us to the supposition that these details were originally painted upon the effigy. The Earl is represented unarmed and resting his head upon a tilting helm of a type that is familiar, but not to be found amongst such helms as are extant. We have described this effigy as being wholly representative of a full fighting suit of its period, for we are still bound to declare that nothing of its epoch exists in actual armour save certain head-pieces and some fragmentary body plates.

Wingfield Church, Suffolk. After Stothard

Collection: Dr. Bashford Dean, New York

In the case of the next effigy, that of Ralph Nevill, Earl of Westmorland, an effigy executed about 1425 (Fig. 197), in Staindrop Church, Durham, we make an advance of some years. This knight was also one of those who accompanied Henry V into France. He survived the field of Agincourt and lived under Henry VI. Although the Nevill effigy is apparently of ten years later date than the one just described, in some details it appears more primitive, for instance, in the formation of the genouillères and the leg-pieces generally. The gauntlets, too, have the short bell-shaped cuffs so characteristic of the