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 and the gauntlets. The brayette (Vol. iii, Fig. 1026) is more like a piece of Greenwich armour than that of any other school.

Sir Guy Laking suggests that the suit for fighting on foot, in the Tower (Class II, No. 6), which was made for Henry VIII, is English (Vol. iii, Fig. 1018), showing traces of German influence "adapted to a fashion that might almost be considered English" (ibid., p. 225); similarly he attributes probable English workmanship to the second suit for fighting on foot in the Tower (Class II, No. 7), illustrated in vol. iii of this work (Fig. 1020). There are other fine armours in the Tower bearing no mark, the workmanship of which, up to the present, has not been assigned to any particular nation, some of which Sir Guy Laking thought may have come from the Greenwich workshops. It is suggested, therefore, that we need not limit our ideas of Greenwich armour to the suits which we are about to describe in detail, but that we may by careful study of much other armour which exists, covering the whole period of the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Phillip and Mary, Elizabeth, and James I, perhaps attribute its provenance, in many cases, to the Greenwich school.—C.-D.]

The following list gives the complete series of the armours illustrated in the MS. and shows which of the suits illustrated are now in existence.

1. The Earle of Rutlande (M.R.)         Not known. The Earle of Bedforde (M.R.)             do. 3. The Earle of Lesseter (1st suit) (E.R.)                                 do. 4. The Earle of Sussex (E.R)      The gauntlets were sold in the Spitzer Sale for £66 8s. and are now in the Riggs Collection, Metropolitan Museum of New York (Figs.                                           1100 and 1101). 5. Ducke John of ffinelande Prince of Sweden (E.R.)                   Not known. Ser William Sentlo (E.R.)            Not known. 7. My Lorde Scrope (E.R.)                   do. 8. The Earle of Lesseter (2nd suit) (E.R.)                             A portion of a suit very similar is in the Tower of London, certainly from the same hand, varying a little, but only in the position of its decoration (Fig. 1102). 9. My Lord Hundson (E.R.)               Not known. 10. Ser George Howarde (E.R.)                do.