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A pistol attached to the haft. Probably Italian, second half of the XVIth century. Ex Brocas Collection. The Tower of London, Class XIV, No. 4

In the haft is hidden a pistol with its wheel-lock in the rondel above the grip. Italian, late XVIth century. K 58, Musée d'Artillerie, Paris

recognized. The glaive, the voulge, the partisan, the ranseur, the spetum, the bill, and the guisarme are still to be met with in their old forms, and, generally speaking, it may be taken for granted that most of the commoner makes of such weapons that are to be found so plentifully in collections to-day date from about the latter part of the XVIth century, examples of the XVth and early XVIth centuries having of late years become difficult to obtain. It will be sufficient for our purpose if we illustrate a few of the more elaborate and decorated examples of these. In the processional hafted weapon carried by