Fig. 397.—Face-guard, breastplate, tace, and tassets, Jacobi armour, 1575.
Fig. 398.—Falling bufe and backplate, Jacobi suit.
Taces are of four plates adapted to cover the bombasted breeches. In the Wallace suit the taces are of one plate only, to which are permanently affixed the Tassets of four plates, and these may be detached from the lower edge of the breastplate if required, so as to permit of the bombasted breeches being worn with no covering, the breastplate being finished at the lower edge to allow of it. In other suits, however, the lobster-tail tassets descend to the knees in a dozen or more lames of plate, where they are covered by the genouillières.
Fig. 399.—Reinforcing breastplate, grevières, sabbatons, and gauntlet, Jacobi armour, 1575. (Wallace Collection.)
Genouillières are of a close-fitting pattern, with small plates defending the outside bends of the legs, and two or more reinforcing plates above and below.
Jambarts.—These are splinted and laminated at the ankles.