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 are saddle steels from a third saddle, and an unusual, almost rectangular, plate in three parts which the present writer can only think is part of the croupière (see post, p. 238, and Fig. 1028).

Before quitting this portion of our subject we cannot omit an allusion

Showing a complete equestrian armour. From a picture in the Imperial Armoury, Vienna

to the famous illustration of the complication of plates to which horse armour of the XVth century is supposed to have eventually arrived. In the Imperial Armoury of Vienna is a picture showing the personal armourer, the Harnischmeister, of the Archduke Maximilian of Austria (Fig. 1004), clad in magnificent harness. It is, however, to the armour of his horse that we