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Which formerly hung over the tomb of Sir Richard Pembridge, K.G., cathedral church of Hereford Ex coll. Sir Samuel Meyrick and Sir Noël Paton. Now in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh

From a drawing by the Author

of two plates, back and front, riveted down both sides; whereas the same portion of the Pembridge helm is most deftly forged from one plate, with the join marks not even discernible. The Black Prince helm has the advantage, however, in having the top of the skull fashioned from one plate; whereas the Pembridge helm has its top plate made of a truncated cone, beneath which is attached the actual crown of the skull-piece. The construction of the two helms is otherwise very similar, except that in place of the hemispherically headed rivets used for joining the parts of the Black Prince helm to