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 represented on this chessman is that most interesting specimen in the Warwick Castle Collection. Here certainly is one of the oldest iron chanfrons known; for it must assuredly date within the last years of the XIVth century. It is now not complete, having lost its ear-guards. In lieu of a single aperture on each side for sight, it has a small cluster of holes over each eye (Fig. 957). How the Warwick Castle Armoury became possessed of this unique piece of plate armour is not known. But it is certainly not one of the early XIXth century purchases; for it figures in Grose's "Ancient Armour," published in 1786, Plate XLII, as "an iron chamfron of uncommon construction said to have belonged to Guy, Earl of Warwick."

About 1415. From his Chantry Chapel in the Abbey Church of Westminster

Royal MS., 20, C, vii, folio 136 Hystoire de Roys de France après Philippe III, etc. In the Abbey Church of Westminster, in the Chantry Chapel of King Henry V, which was planned by the King himself about 1415, among the many and elaborate statuettes and reliefs are to be seen two representations of King Henry. In both these the King is shown galloping full speed, his horse arrayed in a rich wrapper of the royal arms, but apparently unarmoured save for a full, large, and ample chanfron, in which it can be noted that not only are the parts of the chanfron covering the eyes and nose pierced with small holes, but that the truncated tubes which protect the ears are also pierced in a similar manner. We illustrate the north relief (Fig. 958). In a miniature (Royal MS., 20, C, vii, folio 136—Hystoire de Roys de