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 The Garter and motto and the arms of the family also appear on other parts of the suit. In the 1629 Greenwich inventory of "the greate chamber late Mr. Pickerings," is the item: "Diverse parcell of the Earl of Pembrokes armo^r viz. one Tilte headpeece one Grandguard one Pasguarde one Mainefree one Turning Gauntlett and one Shafforne." This entry figures in no other of the Greenwich or Tower inventories. We know from the evidence of the Jacobe MS. that the suit had extra pieces, and the right elbow-cop and breastplate show two places for their attachment. But as Wilton also possesses the Earl's second superb plain Greenwich suit, the references in the inventory may be to this plain harness.

From the missing second suit of Sir Christopher Hatton. English (Greenwich school), third quarter of the XVIth century. Tower of London, Class III, No. 890

The second suit of Sir Christopher Hatton. This armour is illustrated in drawing No. 18 in the Jacobe MS. The only fragment of this suit of which we have any knowledge is the vamplate of a lance preserved in the Tower of London (Fig. 1118). The gilding which covers the whole surface appears to