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About 1330. Abbey Church of Westminster

About 1350. Hastings brass, Elsing Church, Norfolk

basin form, reinforced with bands, as in the case of the conical helmet of the XIIth century, and surmounted by a spherical knob. A wider brimmed variety of chapawe is shown in an illumination (vol. i, Fig. 141), which illustrates a French battle scene of about 1280. The hat can be seen on the figure placed immediately behind the knight whose helm has been so successfully cleft in twain. A drawing dating from the last quarter of the XIIIth century (Fig. 410) can be seen in the British Museum (Add. MSS., No. 11639) which depicts a more elaborate type of war hat on which a comb, doubtless applied, is shown, much in the manner of the pikeman's helmet of the XVIIth century. Again the sleeping warriors, clad in complete chain mail with coifs of the same medium, who are represented in the mid-XIIIth century stone carving in the chapel of St. Maurice in the Cathedral of Constance, will all be noticed to be wearing, as an additional head-piece, a chapel-de-fer, which, with its low sloping brim and reinforced comb, is almost XVth century in style (Fig. 411). Yet another form of chapawe, deep and almost morion-like, and strengthened by a band which passes down the skull-piece, appears on one of the equestrian figures which form part of the Aymer de Valence monument in the Abbey Church of Westminster, a monument which dates from about 1330. [We may mention, by the way, that the front portion