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 1914 by command of His Majesty the King. The shield belonging to the suit is in the Metropolitan Museum of New York (post, p. 240, Fig. 1315). The drawing of this suit is No. 19 in the Jacobe MS. (Fig. 1122).

Made for Sir John Smythe or Smithe. Formerly in the armoury of Windsor Castle, but removed to the Tower of London in 1914 by command of H.M. the King (Class II, No. 84)

In the Tower of London are the following pieces of this suit: The close helmet with visor and mezeil, the gorget, the breast- and backplates, the pauldrons and complete arm defences and gauntlets, the long tassets, the jambs and the sollerets. On the breast is engraved a classical head with the motto round it. The gauntlets are peculiar, being constricted where the cannon of the vambrace terminates. The sollerets are not pointed like those of the Leicester suit; but broaden slightly at the end. In the Tower is also a cantle steel of the saddle (Class VI, No. 115). The other parts of the suit were formerly at Windsor, but were removed to the Tower in 1914 by command of H.M. the King. They consist of the breastplate with a tace of one plate, the backplate, the tassets of fifteen lames finishing in knee-cops, the gorget, the burgonet, the casque with hinged ear plates and protecting "buffe" with two falling plates, another pair of cuisses and knee-cops (Fig. 1121a), a half chanfron with small hinged crinet attached (Fig. 1121b), the bow steels from the saddle (Fig. 1121c), and a morion helmet (Fig. 1121d). The surface of the whole is enriched with broad bands of etching decorated in the following manner. At given intervals in the bands are oblong panels framed by strapwork, which are connected by a quatrefoil arrangement of