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AT NEWTON SOLNEY, DERBYSHIRE. 305 faced with mail, and lined with mail, can scarcely be con- ceived. An example of the hauberk, showing the banding on the inside, is furnished by the knight from Newton Solney. Another is found in the brass of De Creke. (See Craven Ord's Collection in the British Museum ; " Waller's Brasses," Part 8 ; and " Boutell's Brasses," p. 39.) Further instances are seen in the brass at Minster, Isle of Sheppcy (" Stothard's Monuments," Plate 54 ; Boutell, p. 42) ; in the effigy of Sir John d'Aubernoun (Stothard, Plate 60) ; and, of a very marked character, in the brass at Ghent, figured at page 287 of this volume. Sometimes the knight's horse is barded with the banded mail ; as in the figure from a manuscript in the Library of Cambrai, given by M. de Vigne, in his " Hecueil de Costumes," vol. ii., plate 8. In Roy. MS., 20, P. 1, fol. 330, B, are ele- phants with similar caparisons : on their backs are castles, full of fighting-men. It has already been mentioned, that three sculptured figures with banded mail have been previously noticed in England. They are at Tewkesbury, at Bedford, Northamj)- tonshire, and at Tollard Royal, Wilts. The first of these is well known from Stothard's beautiful etchings of the figure ; and the example is further curious from the hauberk being sculptured as ordinary chain-mail, while the camail alone is of the banded work. In the "Memoirs" (p. 125), Stothard, writing of this camail to Mr. Kerrich, says : — " Amongst other curious things I have met with, is a figure which has some remarkable points about it ; but, for the discovery of these, I devoted a whole day in clearing away a thick coating of whitewash which concealed them. The mail attached to the helmet was of that kind so frequently represented in drawings, and wdiich you have had doubts whether it was not another way of representing that sort we are already acquainted with. I am sorry that I know no more of its construction now than before I met with it." The effigy at Bedford is of Purbeck marble, and is figured in " Baker's Northamptonshire," vol. i. p. 360. The knight has hauberk, chausses and coif of banded mail. Plates are at the knees and elbow^s, and the coif is surmounted by a cervelliere of plate. The figure at Tollard Royal has not been engraved ; but, from some memorandums kindly fur- nished by a friend, it appears that this knight also is habited