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 300 KNIGHTLY EFFIGIES AT SANDWICH AND ASH. canvas and leather, the canvas next the metal. This example of real armour curiously illustrates those representations in the Nimroud sculptures where the scales are seen to overlap from below, an arrangement M'hich appears to have been adopted in order that the pointed weapon of an assailant might glance off, instead of finding its way between the folds of the steel. A portion of scale-armour preserved in the " Bronze Room " of the British Museum, seems to be of this period ; its structure is the same, steel rivetted on canvas and leather. Scale-work, of which the material is stout buff leather, is occasionally met with at this time. In Grose's Ancient Armour, PL 39, is figured "a buff covering for the left arm, contrived to answer the purpose of a shield, being composed of three skins of leather, vdth one of cartoon or pasteboard. To it is fixed a buff glove." It appears on the same plate with the buff coat, sword, &c. " worn in the time of Charles I., by Sir Francis Rodes, Bart., of Balbrough Hall, Derbyshire." A buff glove of scale-work is in the collection at Goodrich Court ; ^ and another, in the possession of the writer, is here engraved. This example came from the Bryn-y-Pys collection, and was not improbably an ancestral relic. The buff scales are a i quarter of an inch tliick, extremely tough, and seem I - By a note (since observed) in Meyrick's Grit. Inq., vol iii., p. 87, it appears that the example at Goodrich Court is the very one figured by Grose. !