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 362 EFFIGIES OF THE DE SULNEYS, desirable that a monument so curious for its costume, so venerable for its antiquity, and so interesting from its asso- ciation with the ancient lords of the soil, should be restored to that place of honour which no doubt it once occupied Avithin the precincts of the chancel. Banded mail : arm of the efiigy, Newton Solney. Of the many subjects of perplexity to the student of ancient armour, there is none so puzzling as that of Banded Mail. And yet the representations of it are in the utmost abundance. For a whole century, manuscript illuminations, monumental brasses, painted windows, royal and baronial seals, metal chasings, and sculptures of various kinds, offer us an infinity of examples ; in none of which has hitherto been detected the exact evidence either of its material or its fabric. By many writers it has been described as pour- pointeric ; by others this peculiar work has been considered only as a conventional mode of representing the ordinary chain-mail. Mr. Kerrich, whose opinions will always be received with great respect, speaking of the rows of little arcs used to express the latter defence, says : '' When there