Fig. 407.
The closed helmet ([Fig. 406]) has a skull-piece with a comb, and the chin-piece opens down the side; the very deep visor strengthens the front of the helmet and is pierced for sight, while the lower edge of the helmet articulates with the upper edge of the gorget ([Fig. 407]), which consists of three plates. The breastplate ([Fig. 408]) is slightly peascod in form, and is furnished with a massive lance-rest. The tace of one plate has tassets of three plates depending ([Fig. 410]), while the pauldrons ([Fig. 411]) consist of seven lames each. The suit was evidently intended for tilting purposes, as there are holes for the adjustment of various reinforcements, while the lance-rest of such strong proportions and the deep flange upon the inner side of the tassets only confirm the supposition.
During the later years of the reign of Elizabeth the ordinary armour for fighting purposes assumed a character which is very familiar, inasmuch as it is depicted upon scores of brasses and modelled upon hundreds of effigies in all parts of the kingdom. [Fig. 403], from the brass of Humphrey Brewster, 1593, at Wrentham, illustrates the style.
Fig. 408.
Fig. 409.