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 was exhibited at a meeting of the Archaeological Institute in November, 1880.

Birling Church, Kent

Other helms of the Gostwick type, that is to say, half helm, half bascinet, with an advance into the close helmet form, are to be seen in various churches in England; take, for instance, that very fine and complete helm in Birling Church, Kent (Fig. 489), which may have belonged to either Sir George Nevill, who was summoned to Parliament in 1482, subsequently commanded the English army at Calais, and died in 1492, or to his second son, Sir Edward Nevill, who tilted at Abbeville and at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. Sir George Nevill lived in Birling and Sir Edward