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Southwold Church, Essex

Venetian, about 1490. Collection: Lady Ludlow

skull-piece in the manner of a reinforcing plate. It may be added that this salade is studded with pewter-capped rivets. From the place of its discovery we may look upon it as being of French origin, a typical example of the head-piece then becoming popular in France. A second salade of very much the same family of head-piece, small in proportions, but in this instance furnished with a movable visor, is in Sir Edward Barry's collection at Ockwells Manor (Fig. 361). This little head-piece was likewise found in France. Its peculiarity is the shallowness of the lower part of its visor below the ocularium. Indeed, its general proportions very much resemble those of the salade head-piece represented on that beautiful painted stone head in the Musée Historique d'Orléans, which by some authorities is considered to be a fragment of the monument erected in the XVth century to the Maid of Orleans, Jeanne d'Arc Fig. 362). Réné de Belleval, in his Costume Militaire, quotes from a French MS. of about 1446 who describes such a head-piece worn with the armour of the time in language that leads one to suppose that the salade was coming into