[15] Arch. Journ., lxiv. 15-23.
[16] Carderera, Iconografia.
[17] The terms ‘coude’ and ‘genouillière’, ‘palette’, and such-like words of French origin, are open to some objection in an English work when ‘elbow-cop’, ‘knee-cop’, or ‘poleyne’ and ‘rondel’ can be substituted. They are only employed here because of their general use in armouries at the present day, and because the English words are of rarer occurrence and are less likely to be met with by those beginning the study of armour. ‘Cuisse’ and ‘cuissard’, however, are always used for the thigh-pieces, and no anglicized term is found in contemporary writings unless it be ‘Quysshews.’
[18] Arch. Journ., lx.
[19] Archaeologia, vol. lvii; Arch. Journ., vol. iv.
[20] Arch. Journ., vol. lx.
[21] Boeheim, Meister der Waffenschmiedkunst; De Cosson, Arch. Journ., vol. xlviii.
[22] Arch. Journ., lx.
[23] G. Chastelain, p. 679.
[24] Arch. Journ., xxxvii.