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 tilt-yard—we may mention and shall describe later the "forbidden" gauntlet and the large tilting gauntlets ("manefers"); while other vagaries of form and varieties of fingered gauntlets will be seen on the full suits of XVIth century date which we illustrate. But, as we have said, from the third quarter of the XVth century until the final disuse of the metal gauntlet in the third quarter of the XVIIth century, no further protective qualities were evolved; and henceforward it was surface decoration alone that influenced the style and shape of this particular defence.

In all probability they were part of a suit that belonged either to his father Philip I, or to his grandfather Maximilian I. German, about 1490 Possibly the work of Hans Grünewalt of Nuremberg E 88 and 89, Royal Armoury, Madrid

We must add to this chapter a brief reference to a particular form of left-hand gauntlet, for without alluding to the type our list would be incomplete, it not being our intention to refer again in detail to the defence of the hand.

The gauntlet in question is the duelling gauntlet. It was usually made for the left hand only, and as a rule protected the fore-arm up to the elbow; pairs of such gauntlets are, however, met with, only the left hand one being