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 embellished with the crest of the family in carved and painted wood. The present writer has records of such helmets in the churches of Sandwich Minster, Marlow, Slaugham, and many others. Major Victor Farquharson, an enthusiast on this particular type of head-piece, has informed the author that he is personally acquainted with over three hundred church helmets in England alone. We hope to print a list of church armour in Volume V.

Italian form, but probably of English workmanship, about 1580-90 Stanton Harcourt Church

It must be borne in mind that some of the heavy close helmets that are to be met with dating from the middle to the end of the XVIth century are tilting helmets, and as such form a link with our brief history of that form of head-piece which in the XVth century is styled the helm. In Volume II we have illustrated in Fig. 500 the latest form of what we can still call the helm, or at least the descendant of the helm; but concurrently with those constructed for the joust and tournament alone are various types