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 a weapon of about the same period and possibly of the same nationality. We cannot differentiate between the ranseur and the spetum.

Italian, about 1540 K 394, Musée d'Artillerie, Paris

About 1480 National Bavarian Museum, Munich

About the partizan, many contradictory contemporary accounts exist; for as in mediaeval times many different weapons were called glaives, so in the XVIth century most hafted weapons were styled partizans. Shakespeare makes Marcellus say to Horatio in "Hamlet," Act i, Scene : "Shall I strike at it with my partizan?" indicating that the partizan was a cutting weapon of