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Probably Swiss, about 1440-90. Collection: Viscount Astor, Hever Castle; Ex collection: Herr J. von Hefner-Alteneck

Probably Swiss, about 1450-90. Found in the lake of Morat in Switzerland. Ex Chabrières-Arlès and Ressman collections, now Metropolitan Museum of New York

Probably Burgundian, about 1460. Collection: Mr. W. H. Riggs, Metropolitan Museum, New York

attached to which is a camail of chain (Fig. 413), is shown in an elaborated chapawe, worn over what appears to be a small, close-fitting bascinet. Another example of the chapawe worn as an auxiliary helmet is shown on a sepulchral slab in Ashington Church, Sussex, which dates from about 1350. Here again the head-piece is seen worn over a small bascinet. Among the Royal MSS. in the British Museum there is a splendidly illuminated