suggested by M. Viollet-le-Duc in his Dictionnaire du Mobilier Français (Fig. 136). By degrees the flat-topped skull cap conformed to the contour of the head; and as evidence of its existence in this shape towards the close of the third quarter of the century, reference may be made to the effigy attributed to Richard Wellysburne de Montfort, in Hitchendon Church, Buckinghamshire, youngest son of the great Baron Simon (Fig. 137).
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Fig. 135. An effigy in the cathedral church of Gloucester, attributed vaguely but erroneously to Robert, Duke of Normandy (about 1230)
(a) A full face view; (b) the right profile view; (c) the left profile view
From Stothard's "Monumental Effigies"
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Fig. 136. Suggested way of lacing the mail coif on the right temple
After Viollet-le-Duc
The skull cap or cervelière is here shown as quite hemispherical, with its extreme edge appearing on the forehead below the coif. The actual skull cap was probably very similar in appearance to one in the author's possession which, although of the XVth century, is a similar head defence. It is modelled
