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886. Knightly pole-axe and hammer, first half of the XVth century.
Wallace Collection (Laking Catalogue, No. 23) 96

887. Knightly pole-axe and hammer, probably French, third quarter of
the XVth century.
Wallace Collection (Laking Catalogue, No. 54) 96

888. Knightly war-hammer, third quarter of the XVth century. National
Bavarian Museum, Munich 96

889. Knightly pole-axe, third quarter of the XVth century. Ex collection:
Lord Londesborough. Collection: Mr. S. G. Fenton 96

890. Sir John Astley's fight with Philip Boyle at Smithfield in 1441-2.
Hastings MS 97

891. Three knightly pole-arms. (a) Pole-axe, probably French, about 1480.
Metropolitan Museum, New York; (b) War-hammer, Italian, about
1500. Noël Paton Collection, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh;
(c) Pole-axe, about 1480. The head of this weapon was found at
Newbury. Collection: Mr. Godfrey Williams 98

892. Douce MS., Bodleian, No. 271 99

893. From "The History of St. Ursula." By Vittore Carpaccio, showing
the heavy pole-hammer and the hâche d'armes carried by the knights
and soldiers. Accademia, Venice 100

894. "How a man schall be armyd at his ese when he schal fighte on foote."
Hastings MS 100

895. From The Pageant of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. Richard
Beauchamp fighting Pandolph Malatête en champ clos, armed with war-hammers,
showing the protective rondels on the hafts 101

896. From a woodcut, No. 18, Lirer Swabian Chronicle, about 1484. Graf
von dem Rotenfan fights for the honour of Queen Kathay 102

896A. Pole-axe, probably English, early XVIth century. K 84, Musée
d'Artillerie, Paris 103

897. Pole-axe, probably Burgundian, about 1480. Ex collections: Meyrick
and Noël Paton. Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh 103

898. The "Luzern" hammer, Swiss, about 1560. Collection: Author 103

899. Glaives. (a) Italian (Venetian), early XVIIth century. Wallace Collection
(Laking Catalogue, No. 740); (b) Probably made in Italy for François
de Bourbon, Duc de Montmorency, 1539-1592. Wallace Collection
(Laking Catalogue, No. 733) 105

900. From the side of a carved ivory casket of the early XIVth century,
showing a warrior armed with a shield and a hafted weapon, now
termed the voulge
106