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 AT NEWTON SOLNEY, DERBYSHIRE. 363 are lines between the rows, whether hvo or only one, I con- ceive it means still but the same thing." (Collections in Brit. Mus., Add. MS. 6731, fol. 4.) M. Pottier, in the text to Willemin's " Monuments Inedits," does not distinguish the so-called banded mail from the other, but names it simply, "armure de mailles." (Vol. I., p. 77.) But it seems diffi- cult to believe that the common chain armour could bo intended ; so widely different are the two modes of repre- sentation, whether in sculpture or in painting. 01)servc, for example, the details — especially the portion in profile — from the effigy at Newton Solney. And in the following subject, from the " Romance of Meliadus" (Add. MS. 12,228, fol. 79), there seems no assignable reason for marking one figure so diffei-ently from the rest, unless the armour itself were of a distinct character. Add. j;S iu Brit. Mus. 12,228, f. 79. That the banded defences under consideration were of pourpointing is still more unlikely ; for a pourpointed gar- ment, whether of silk, cloth, or whatever material, would, in painted representations, exhibit those various colours which are so lavishly displayed in the other portions of the knightly attire. Yet a careful examination of many hundred figures in illuminated manuscripts of the thii'tecnth and fourteenth centuries, has failed in detecting a single instance of positive colour on banded mail, except such as may be referred to the metals. Green, scarlet, crimson, iliaper, or ray, never appear. But gold or yellow tincture, silver or white, ami