[13] The first attempt at a movable visor seems to have occurred in France, during the reign of Louis le Gros.
[14] This helm was given to Sir S. Rush Meyrick by the Dean: a flagrant instance of how such trust property was treated in his day.
[15] The term “men-at-arms” was often applied to knights on foot or on horseback, but its early significance was heavy-armed infantry. The grades mentioned in the army of Philip Augustus were: bannerets, knights, squires, and “men-at-arms.”
[16] “Notes on the Hanseatic League,” by the writer. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1893–94.
[17] These pieces will be referred to fully under the section “Maximilian Armour.”
[18] Johnes’s Froissart, vol. iii., p. 23.
[19] Archæologia, vol. li., p. 250.
[20] Nithard, the nephew of Charlemagne. Book III.
[21] The illustration occurs in “Paul Lacroix.”
[22] Vol. i., p. 169.