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 its very great weight makes it seem almost impossible that it ever formed part of a hauberk, and we would suggest as a possible theory that it must originally have belonged to some horse apparel. This piece of chain mail is now in the collection of the present writer. The Musée d'Artillerie, G 426, exhibits a genouillère of plate around the edging of which is attached chain mail. We must confess that we have never handled or critically examined it; but since it is the only extant example known to the present writer of reinforced chain mail of supposed European provenance in the fashion of the early part of the XIVth century, we are inclined to be sceptical, and to consider it Asiatic and of later date. It was presented to the Musée d'Artillerie by M. Jouste, the famous antiquary. Another fragment of large linked chain mail is worthy of illustration (Fig. 515). It appears to be of late XIVth century date, and was found in the cellar of a house pulled down during the Aldwych improvements. It is now in the London Museum.

Supposed to have come from a church in Gloucestershire. Assigned to the early part of the XIVth century

Ex Meyrick, Burges, de Cosson Collections. (Actual size of rings)

In the remarkable collection of Mr. W. Riggs of Paris, recently presented by him to the Metropolitan Museum of New York, is the camail