KNIGHTLY EFFIGIES AT SANDWICH AND ASH. 25)0 banded mail, is from the Avcll-kiiowii brass at .Alinstcr, Isle [)f JSheppej, c. 1337 (Stothard, PI. 54). The sal.atvns ippear on the brass of Sir Wm. Clieyne, a.d. 1375 (Waller, Pt. 8). Similar scale boots are seen on an effigy figured in Hyett's Northamptonshire Monuments, and on that of a De Vere, at Earl's Colne, given in Powell's Essex Collections (British Mus., Add .MS., 17,4G0). "Pctticotes" of scale occur in the illuminations of the " Roman du rov Mcliadus," c. 1375 (Add. MS. 15,228, ff. 274, 275) ; iii tMo German monumental sculptures given by Hefner, dated 1407 and 1421 {Tracht(m, Pt. 2, Plates 92 and 110) ; and in the picture of a mounted knight on folio IGl of Ilai-j. MS., 4374, a work of the second half of the fifteenth cen- tury. In the sixteenth century, scale appears in the Ehrcii'pfnTtc of the Emperor Maximilian I., forming head- pieces and " bases " of the soldiery ; and in Hans Schellclcin's cuts to the romance-poem of Tewrdannckh, similar skull- caps are. seen. In the picture of the Battle of the Spui-s, at Hampton Court, there is the figure of a horse wearing a defence of scale-work over his neck. Later, we have the costly suit, in the Tower, of Count Hector Oddi, of Padua, of which we give a portion in its natural size. (See next imge.) The armour is a demi-suit, the culet alone being of scale- work. Each scale is fastened by two rivets to a basis <>f VOL. VIII.
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