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French type, but of German make, about 1470-80. Possibly used by mounted archers No. 77, Wallace Collection

French type, but of German make, about 1470-80. Museo Civico, Venice

wonderfully vivid word pictures gives descriptions of the fights of the illustrious Lalain. In all his later combats de Lalain is to be found wearing a salade in combination with the collar or standard of mail, but rarely the bevor. In Chastelain's Chronique du Bon Chevalier Messire Jacques de Lalain, he adds this description of his salade, "un chapeau de fer d'ancienne façon, qu'on avoit approprié pour ce faire." In fact, it was an old chapel-de-fer cut and altered to suit the taste of this knight, who disregarded the conventions of armament. All degrees of fighting men wore the salade during the last three-quarters of the XVth century—the noble, the knight, the soldier, and the archer. The Baron de Cosson gives it as his opinion that the