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 shown in three of the portraits appears, however, in a somewhat different form on the armour in the Tower to which we are now referring. In the Riggs Collection, Metropolitan Museum of New York, are a pair of cuisses and knee-cops, deeply engraved with large stars, showing a greater likeness to the armour worn in the portrait at Appleby Castle (Fig. 1139).

Ex collections: Londesborough and Brett. Now in the Hall of the Armourers' and Brasiers' Company

The third suit of Sir Henry Lee, 1530-97 (Fig. 1141). The drawing of the suit and extra pieces is numbered 28 in the Jacobe MS. (Fig. 1143). This suit, with the exception of the extra pieces illustrated in the MS., is in the Hall of the Armourers' and Brasiers' Company. It was presented to the Company together with the gauntlet (Fig. 1124) in 1768, by Mr. William Carter, a member of the Court. At the dispersal of the Brett Collection in 1895, the buffe from the lost burgonet, No. 729 in the catalogue, was very wisely purchased by the Company for £25. Previous to its inclusion in the Brett Collection, it was in that of Lord Londesborough (Fig. 1142) and was sold for £19 19s. (Lot 126). The suit is