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AT NEWTON SOLNEY, DERBYSHIRE. 367 plain character. At the head are ministering angels, clad in red copes, their hair gilded : at the feet is a lion. The monu- ment has no inscription. The figure ^Years the hauberk of chain-mail, seen below the surcoat and on the inside of the upper arm. Chain is again seen at the inside of the knees, and at the instep. Strapped on the upper-arm are plates, articulated at the top for freedom of motion. The vam- braces and elbow-pieces are also of plate. The plate gaunt- lets are of the type so frequently found in the fourteenth century, and of which a real example has lately been discovered, in the excavations of the castle of Tannen- berg, in Germany, figured in Hefner and Wolfs Die Burg Tan- nenherg und iJire Ans- fjrahmigen, plate 1 0, p. 92. The leg-armour of metal or cuir-boulli presents no peculiarity of form or adornment. The sabatyn is curious from the heel being- covered with little rectangular plates (ri- veted probably on leather), while the fore part of the foot is furnished with splints (see cut). The spurs have rowels of sixteen points. The jupon has the border decliiquete, so characteristic of this period. The knightly belt is richly ornamented ; on the clasp is the figure of a goat ; and in each lozenge of the girdle is a goat's head, but placed with no regularity, the head sometimes turned to the right, sometimes to the left, and sometimes presenting a front view. The bassinet has camail and camail-band ; the latter is of the ohl fashion, leaving the staples and cord in view : the lower edge of the camail is at each shoulder fastened by points {see cut) ; and it is not unlikely that these points, passing through holes in the surcoat, were attached to the armour beneath. The utility of the contrivance is obvious, and its occurrence in German VOL. VII. 3 c