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English, late XVIth century. Found at Sudbury, Suffolk Collection: Author

Probably of English workmanship. Early XVIth century. Wallace Collection (Laking Catalogue, No. 724)

staff, with an iron like a peasant's hedging bill, but much thicker and heavier than what is used in the Venetian territories; with this they strike so heavily as to unhorse the cavalry, and it is made short because they like close quarters." Numbers of the more ordinary bill-heads exist, the Tower Armoury, the Wallace Collection, and the Noël Paton Collection showing a very fine series of nearly every class; we give illustrations of three that may be considered good representative types of the early years of the XVIth