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 1895 has it been credited to the ownership of Charles, Prince of Wales. The same criticism as to the poor quality of its workmanship must be made as was pronounced on the last suit described. We may almost call it makeshift armourer's work, so feeble in general outline is it; while the various vertical bands that constitute its enrichment are composed of the weakest kind of ornamentation, consisting of inartistic arrangements of complicated scrollwork punched with a tool and gilt. As will be seen by the illustration, the suit is still very complete; for in addition to the parts already referred to, there are the chanfron and crinet for the horse, and portions of the saddle steels. The circular target shield belonging to this harness used to be in the Windsor Castle Armoury (No. 790 in the 1904 Catalogue); but in September 1914 it was removed to the Tower of London by command of His Majesty (Fig. 1443). It is twenty and a quarter inches in diameter, and still retains its leather and dark rose satin lining embroidered with gold thread.

Belonging to the suit illustrated in Fig. 1442. Formerly in the collection of H.M. the King at Windsor Castle, and transferred by command to the Tower of London in 1914 (Class II, No. 90)