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 which some of the heavy head-pieces of this date were worn, and the precautions which were taken to lessen the great discomfort which the wearer experienced in wearing them. We have mentioned in vol. ii, on pages 137 et seqq., the care with which the ponderous tilting helms, with their elaborate linings, were attached to the head of the wearer. The close-fitting tilting helmet as a rule dispensed with this complicated arrangement of the "arming-bonett," of padded coif, lacing points, etc., and they were simply, though very carefully, lined with some quilted material. In proof of this we illustrate a very heavy helmet made for the purpose of tilting, now preserved in the mess of the Royal Army Medical Corps at Millbank, and photographed for this work by permission of Colonel Wardrope, C.B. (Fig. 1209). The interesting feature of this head-piece is that it retains its lining intact, not only that of the skull-piece and of the gorget plates, etc., but even that of the chin-piece. This lining only consists of a very thick velvet padding stuffed with tow.