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For ye now Earle of Dorset          Tilte Armor 1. For ye Earle of Oxford              Tilte Armor 1      more for ye feelde Armor 1. For ye Lo. Garret                   Tilte Armor 1. For ye Earle of Desmond             Tilte Armor 1. For ye Lo. Mansfeelde               Tilte Armor 1      more for ye feelde Armor 1. For my Lo. Monioy                   Tilte Armor 1      more for ye feelde Armor 1. For ye Lo. Stanhop                  Tilte Armor 1. For ye Lo. Bru                      Tilte Armor 1. For ye Lo. Gourdon                        feelde Armor 1. For Sr Henrie Mildmay               Tilte Armor 1. For Mr. Carle                       Tylte Armor 1. For Sr William Hayden for his Ma^{ties} s'vice at S^t Martin islands feelde Armor 4. For ye M^r of ye Armorie                  feelde Armor 1. For Sr William Pitt                       feelde Armor 1. For Sr Arnold Harbert                     feelde Armor 1. For Sr Adam Newton                        feelde Armor 1. For ye Barron of Burford            Tilte Armor 1      more for ye feelde Armor 1.
 * For ye Lo. Compton                 Tilte Armor 1.
 * For ye Earle of Bedford                  feelde Armor 1.

An order for making a tilte Armor for ye Lo. Marquis Hamilton. 1. An order for making a tilte Armor for ye Earle of Northampton. 1.

Some of these were made by ye King's Ma^{ties} com̄aund and some by the Lo. Chamberlins com̄aund, and ye rest by com̄aund from ye Master of his Ma^{ties} Armoury.

Besides other new armors and worke that is ready in the Office upon anie occasion.

This list shows the importance of the productions of the Greenwich armourers in the latter part of the XVIth and at the commencement of the XVIIth centuries, and of the existence of suits in stock in case a person desired to purchase one. It will be noticed, however, that two of the names figuring in the 1625 list appear in the illustrated MS., viz.: "Ye Lo. Compton Tilte Armor 1," and "For ye Earle of Bedford feelde." If these two suits are the same two as those illustrated in the MS., then a second MS. must probably have once been in existence illustrating the remainder of the suits mentioned in 1625—perhaps with an index which would have thrown some light on this mysterious group of armour and its still more mysterious maker or makers. The Inventario de la Armeria de Valladolid of Charles V, preserved at Madrid, is an instance of a pictorial inventory of an armoury, in which armour and weapons of various origins and dates are all drawn by the same hand, with notes here and there concerning them.