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 but which now through constant wear are somewhat flattened, average a full half inch in their interior diameter. It will be noticed that the lower edge of the shirt is vandyked, and that the links for a little distance up are composed of brass riveted with iron, a fashion which is also followed in the formation of the edge of the sleeves. This custom of vandyking the lower edge of the hauberk dates, as is well known, from the third quarter of the XIVth century to the first quarter of the next, which fact enables us to assign this particular shirt to about that period. The equestrian statue of Bernabo Visconti, erected in 1354, now preserved in the castle of Milan, is habited in just such a hauberk (see Fig. 964); such a shirt also figures in the brass of Sir Thomas Burton, 1382. In the early years of the XVth century hauberks of this kind with the vandyked edge are represented on brasses, of which that of Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, is a good example, and on the effigy of Sir Edmund de Thorpe, in Ashwelthorpe Church, Norfolk (Fig. 517) which may be dated about 1418.

Late XIVth century. Ex Meyrick and Noël Paton Collections

Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh