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Third quarter of the XVIIth century. The count is represented wearing the now lost second suit made for Sir Henry Lee. Nordeska Museum, Stockholm

of a Count Sten Bielka (Fig. 1131), who, though wearing a short periwig and lawn cravat, is apparently armoured in the now lost second suit made for Sir Henry Lee. The suit is most accurately represented, and is shown to the waist, evidently painted from the actual armour. Since certain other pieces of this Lee suit are still to be seen in Stockholm, there is the likelihood that even now the remainder of the suit may yet be discovered in some private Swedish collection. It would be interesting to learn how it came to