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The skull-piece probably English, about 1480. East Shefford Church, Lambourne, Berks

Probably English, though of pronounced Italian form, late XVth century Hexham Abbey

even more profuse luxury in the case of the salade. In the privy purse expenses of King Henry VII (Bentley's Excerpta Historica) are these entries: "Delivered by the Kinges commandement for diverse peces of cloth of gold, and for certain and many precyouse stones and riche perlis bought of Lambardes for the garnyshing of salades, shapues [meaning chapeaux or chapels-de-fer] and helemytes agenst the King's noble voyage, £3800"; and later: "To John Vandelf for garnyshing of a salett, £38. 1. 4." At the same time we find among the privy purse expenses of Elizabeth of York, Queen to Henry VII, the account of a payment for a gift intended for her husband, who was then planning an expedition against Scotland. It is as follows: "To the Quene's grace for garnishing a sallett, £10." In the year 1455 Charlotte of Savoy, Queen of France, is recorded to have defrayed the expenses of the equipment of three men at arms, and amongst the items of the account was "1 marc 7 ozs. and 7-1/2 gros silver," employed for making the ornaments of three salades. Everything, however, in the nature of the luxurious adornment of a headpiece is surpassed by the decoration of the salade worn by Louis XI on his state entry into Paris, which is stated by Duclercq to have been worth 100,000 crowns of gold on account of the jewels with which it was enriched. The Duke of Burgundy in 1443, according to Olivier de la Marche, appears to have possessed a salade valued at the time at almost as high a figure. It is a matter for wonder that even any parts of the highly enriched headpieces of the XVth century have survived; for not only did the fashion and the use of the salade cease in the XVIth century, but the old shapes