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 This suit figures eight times in the inventories of Greenwich and the Tower, first in the 1611 inventory of "the greene gallerie, Greenwich": "one Tylte armr compleate graven w^{th} the ragged staffe made for the Earle of Leicester the horse having a steele sadle and a foreparte of barbe plaine a Crynit and shaffron [p=]cell or 'pcell' ?—f1: abbrev. for 'parcell'] guilte and graven w^{th} a hinderparte for a horse made of plates of steele and a bridle." In the 1629 inventory of the "Greene Gallerie, Greenwich" (as it is still called) is the same entry; but the suit is "upon horse." In the 1660 inventory it is at the Tower "In the Hall of the Leiftenn't of the Tower." The entry is the same. In the 1676 inventory there is a slightly different entry: "Upon a like horse Compleat Armour Cappape w^{th} ye Ragged Staff w^{th} a Main Guard and Pass-guard made for ye Earle of Leicester, y^e horse furniture being a shaffron Crinett and Brest-*plate of ye same, saddle and Raynes." In the 1683 inventory there is the same entry; but in addition to the main guard and pass-*guard there is allusion to "a manifare and gaunlet." In the 1688 inventory and valuation there is the same entry and a valuation of the suit at £208. This is again repeated in the inventories of 1691 and 1693. From the year 1708 until the year 1827, despite its clear history, the armour was shown in the chronological line of kings as having belonged to King James I. In a portrait of the Earl of Leicester by Zuccaro (Fig. 1104) the Earl is represented wearing a suit almost similar to the one we have described (Fig. 1102).

The armour of Lord North (Fig. 1105). In all probability many of the plates placed upon the figure in the Tower of London Armoury are part of the harness illustrated in drawing No. 11 in the Jacobe MS. (Fig. 1106); though with the exception of the pauldrons, jambs, and sollerets they do not accord exactly with the design of the drawing. The plates which now compose the suit at the Tower are probably those interchangeable with them. They are white armour with simple bands recessed and gilded.

No. 11 in the Jacobe MS.

