The Defensive Armour and the Weapons and Engines of War of Mediæval Times, and of the "Renaissance."

by R. Coltman Clephan

[53] The archives run: “Il nostre comune di Perugia fece fare ... 500 bombarde, una spanne lunghe,” etc. General Kohler mentions this in his book.

[54] Hollinshed.

[55] Maitland’s History of London.

[56] Small cases for holding measured charges of powder ready for loading.

INDEX.

• A.
• Accolade, [35]
• Acinace, [162]
• Agathias, [159], [179], [193]
• Ages—Stone, Bronze, and Iron, [15]
• Ailettes, [42], [49]
• Air-gun, [224]
• Akten des Dresdener Oberhof-marshallamtes, [92]
• Alexiad, [205]
• Allecret armour, [135]
• Almau, Juan de, [156]
• Almayne rivets, [65], [108], [131]
• Almayne armourers, [69]
• Anelace, [166], [176]
• Angelo, Michael, [140]
• Anglo-Saxon arms, [26], [152], [197]
• Arbelest, [185]
• Archers, [55], [59], [182]
• Armament of the Caledonians, [151]
• Armati, [54]
• Armet, [98]
• Armorial bearings, [27], [28]
• Arms and armour as mortuaries, [20]
• Armeria Real de Madrid, [73], [91], [132], [148]
• Armeria Reale, Turin, [74], [140]
• Armourers’ Album, South Kensington, [69], [139]
• Armourers’ pincers, [65]
• Armour, Gothic, at Parham, [115];
• at Sigmaringen, [116];
• at Vienna, [119]
• Armour from Rhodes, [98], [115]
• Armour for boys, [68]
• Armour-smiths, [114], [119], [120], [132], [149], [156]
• Arms of the Franks, [151], [152]
• Army, fourteenth century, [55]
• Arrière-ban or ban-fieffé, [57]
• Arrow, the broad, [180];
• the plain pile, [180]
• Artillery, the earliest, [208];
• at the Porte de Hal Museum, [209];
• the serpentin, [210];
• the bombard, [210];
• the harquebus-mitrailleuse, [211];
• the orgue, [211];
• the elbow bombard, [211];
• bombard at Woolwich, [212]
• Artists and craftsmen, [140]
• Aventail, [47]
• Ayala, Tomas de, [156]
• B.
• Bachelle, [34]
• Bachelor, [34]
• Ballad of the “Albigéois,” [191]
• Ballista, [54], [187]
• Ban, [24], [57]
• Banded mail, [36]
• Bandoliers, [227]
• Banner, [34]
• Banneret, [34]
• Bards, [53], [54], [66], [88], [89]
• Barriers for lists, [90]
• Baselard or badelaire, [177]
• Bases, [34], [66]
• Bas-relief in the Louvre, B.C. 700, [178]
• Bassinet, [48], [97]
• Baston, [196]
• Battle of Poitiers (anno 732), [23];
• of Courtray, [57], [114];
• Granson, [57];
• Morat, [57], [220];
• Nancy, [57];
• Hastings, [58], [193];
• Pavia, [58], [222];
• Creçy, [60], [179], [184], [206], [207];
• Poitiers, [60], [114], [195];
• Auray, [60];
• Agincourt, [68], [179], [184];
• Flodden, [179];
• “Haringues,” [183];
• Navarete, [192];
• Culloden, [197];
• “Rosebecque,” [199];
• Rhodes, [207];
• Choggia, [207];
• Sluys, [207];
• Mounguntur, [225]
• Battle-axe, [196]
• Battering-ram, [151]
• Bavier, [98]
• Bawdric, [164]
• Bayeux tapestry, [25], [27], [46], [161], [179], [193], [194], [197]
• Bayonet, [204]
• Beowulf, poem of, [21], [200]
• Bequest of Guy de Beauchamp, [40];
• of William Lord Bergavenny, [83]
• Berefreid, beffroi, or belfrey, [191]
• Berne tapestry, [195]
• Bill, [200]
• Blackened armour, [65]
• Black and white armour, [137]
• Blore’s Monumental Remains, [116]
• Blount’s Antient Tenures, [163]
• Boeheim, Wendelin, [63], [85], [95], [219]
• Bombard, [155], [210], [211]
• Bombard, bronze, [209]
• Bombardelle, [210]
• Bombardier of fourteenth century, [213]
• Boutel, [19]
• Bow of Pandarus, [178]
• Bows, German and Italian, [181]
• Bows, order in Council, anno 1595, concerning, [157]
• Bowyers, [180]
• Brabançons, [58]
• Brassards, [39], [89], [106]
• Brasses, English, [18]
• Brasses:
• Beauchamp, [18];
• Daubernoun, [18], [19], [28], [30], [32], [37], [38], [112], [161], [194];
• Great Chart, [18];
• D’Argentine, [31], [33], [38], [39], [114];
• Thomas Cheyne, Esquire, [31], [107];
• Sir John Say, [33];
• Minster Church, Sheppey, [36];
• Thomas Lord Berkeley, Wotton-under-Edge Church, [39];
• William de Aldeburgh, [39];
• Porte de Hal, Brussels, [40];
• Martin de Visch, [41];
• Trumpington, [44];
• Sir John Lowe, [50];
• Sir William de Tendering, [50];
• Arkesdon Church, [60], [104];
• Gerart, Duke of Gulich, Altenberg, [61];
• Sir Robert Staunton, [62], [98], [116];
• Qui, [64], [101];
• Sir William Harper, [67];
• Spilsby Church, [101];
• Sir John Fitzwaryn, [101];
• Sir John Lysle, [108];
• Harpham Church, [106];
• Sir John Drayton, [108];
• Nicholas Hawberk, [108];
• John Leventhorpe, [109];
• Lementhorp, [109];
• St. Mary’s Church, Thame, [115];
• King’s Sombourne, [177]
• Brasses, German, French, and Spanish, [19], [65]
• Brayette or cod-piece, [108]
• Braquamart, [167]
• Branche des Royaux Leguages, [183], [199]
• Breastplates, [49]
• Brewis Parker on swords, [173]
• Brief Discourse on Warre (Sir Roger Williams), [200]
• Brigandine, [185]
• Broadsword, [169]
• Brockberger, [156]
• Burton, Sir Richard F., on the sword, [158]
• Burgkmair, Hans, [84]
• Burgonet, [99]
• Byrnie, [22]
• C.
• Cabasset, [66], [100]
• Caliver, [225]
• Caltrop, [113]
• Camail, [38]
• Canterbury Bible, [161]
• Cannon, rifled, [215]
• Cannon, wood, hemp, paper, [207]
• Cannon in the Königl. Zeughaus, Berlin, [210]
• Cap of maintenance, [38]
• Carbine, [227]
• Carda, [44]
• Cartridges, [227]
• Casque, [100]
• Catapulta, [54], [187]
• Catálogo de la Armeria de Madrid, [157]
• Cellini, Benvenuto, [140]
• Cerebrerium, [97]
• Cervelière, [97]
• Chain-mail, [20];
• oriental, [23];
• double-ringed, [23]
• Chanfrein, [45]
• Chapel-de-fer, [48]
• Chapeline, [48]
• Charlemagne, [23]
• Chausses, [26], [29], [31], [110]
• Chaussons, [39], [110]
• Chaucer, [32], [37], [52], [81], [176]
• Childeric, [196]
• Chilperic, sword of, [159]
• Chivalry, [24]
• Cinquedea, [167]
• Ciro, Philippo, [156]
• Claymore, [173]
• Coats of arms, [28]
• Coif de mailles, [30]
• Colichemarde, [174]
• Column of Trajan, [20], [162]
• Combined weapons, [186], [226]
• Comnena, Princess Anna (Alexiad), [24], [25], [183], [205]
• Condottieri, [58]
• Continuous hoods, [30]
• Contracts for the Beauchamp effigy, [117]
• Coronal of the lance, [76], [89], [90]
• Cosson, Baron de, [146], [163], [176]
• Coudières, [106]
• Coutes, [31]
• Crapeaudeau, [210]
• Creeny, [19]
• Crinet, [54]
• Crossbows, [183]
• Crusades, [28], [41]
• Cuir-bouille, [37], [107]
• Cuirass, [51], [101], [138];
• Gothic form, [103]
• Cuisse, [31], [110]
• Cultellus or coustel, [161], [177]
• Culverins, [209]
• Cutlass, [174]
• Cyclas, [33]
• D.
• Dagger guards, [176]
• Das Deutsche Stechen, [88]
• Decline of armour, [136]
• Defaut de la cuirasse, [105]
• Degradation of a knight, [53]
• Demi-armour, [135]
• Demmin, [206]
• Dictionnaire du Mobilier (V. le Duc), [199]
• Diechlinge, [87], [94]
• Dillon, Viscount, [105], [129], [130], [203], (Guns in the Tower) [215]
• Dirk, [177]
• Discs, [105]
• Donatello, [140]
• Dresden Museum, [87], [148]
• Duel, judicial, [80]
• Duelling, [169], [170]
• Dürer, Albrecht, [125], [140], [156]
• Dusack, [167]
• E.
• Early seventeenth century armour, [138]
• Edicts against tournaments, [78]
• Effigies:
• Beauchamp, [19], [62], [69], [105], [109], [115], [116];
• Robert de Vere, [28], [110];
• Haseley Church, [28];
• Johan le Botiler, [28];
• G. de Mandeville, [29];
• William Longespee, [30], [107];
• in the Temple Church, [30];
• Jean de Dreux, [30];
• Walkerne Church, [30];
• Norton Church, [32];
• Whitworth, [33], [47];
• Black Prince, [33], [38], [52], [97], [107], [121];
• Sir John Pechey, [33];
• Ogle, [33];
• Otto von Piengenau, [35];
• Alb. von Hohenlohe, [35];
• Berengar von Berlichingen, [35];
• Conrad von Seinsheim, [35];
• St. Peter’s Church, Sandwich, [35];
• Tewkesbury Abbey Church, [36];
• Alvechurch, [36], [97], [106];
• Ash Church, [37], [43], [102];
• Willem Wenemaer, [40], [176];
• Wilhelm de Ryther, [37];
• Brian Lord Fitz Alan, [37];
• Humphrey de Bohun, [38], [107];
• Newton Solney Church, [38];
• Sir Richard Pembridge, K.G., [38], [48];
• Sir Robert Harcourt, K.G., [39];
• Gunther von Schwarzburg, [40];
• Peter le Marechal, [43];
• Clehongre, [43];
• Tew, [43];
• Porte de Hal, Brussels, [44];
• Rudolph von Hierstein, Bâle, [44];
• Diether von Hael, [45];
• Burkhard von Steenberg, [45];
• G. von Furstenberg, [45];
• Staunton Church, [47];
• Naples, [50];
• Lucas de Corta, [61];
• at Meissen, [62];
• Hertford, [66];
• Southerly Church, [105];
• Sir Richard de Burlingthorpe, [107];
• Sir Robert Grey, [107];
• Whitchurch, [108];
• Redmarshal, [103];
• Downes, Macclesfield Church, [103];
• the second Baron Berkeley, [176];
• Ebersberg, [164];
• Borfe, [164]
• Egypt, [15]
• Ehrenpforte of Maximilian, [33], [125]
• Ehrenthal, Max von, [73], [85], [157]
• Endorfer, Jörg, [156]
• Enrichment of armour in fourteenth century, [52]
• Enriched armour at Dresden, [148]
• Épaulières, [49], [104]
• Épée de passot, [167]
• Equipment of men-at-arms, [59]
• Espadon, [166]
• Espringal, [189]
• Esquire, [34], [52], [77]
• Estoc, [169]
• Extra tilting pieces, [83]
• F.
• Falarica, [189]
• Falchion or fauchon, [162]
• Falchion, the Conyers, [163]
• Falconet, [210]
• Feathers and plumes, [53]
• Fencing, [169]
• Ferrara, Andrea, [170]
• Feudalism, [51], [55], [57]
• Field of the Cloth of Gold, [84]
• Firearms, early, [71]
• Flail, military, [201]
• Flamberge, [166]
• Flintlock, [226]
• Fluted Maximilian suit at Berne, [122]
• Fork, military, [202]
• Francisca, [151]
• Frauenpreis, Mathaus, [131], [134]
• Free companies, [58]
• Freiturnier, [92]
• Freydal, [91]
• Froissart, [25], [59], [79], [192], [194], [202], [203], [205], [207], [222]
• Fussturnier, [92]
• Fustibal, or staff sling, [192]
• G.
• Gads or gadlings, [39]
• Gambeson, [51]
• Garde-de-bras, [92], [107]
• Garde-de-reine, [108]
• Garter insignia, [34]
• Gauntlets, [31], [107], [132]
• Gedritts, [88]
• Gemlich, Ambrosius, [168]
• Gennet, order of the, [34]
• Genoese crossbowmen, [183]
• Genouillières, [31], [110]
• Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg, [75]
• Ghinelli, [156]
• Ghisi, Georgio, [63]
• Gisarme, [202]
• Glaive, [200]
• Gloss du Droit, [34]
• Gloves of mail, [30]
• Goatsfoot crossbow, [185]
• Goedendag, [198]
• Goedendag, Le arme Flamande sa Légende, etc., [198]
• Gorget, [40], [100], [101]
• “Gothic” armour, [61], [114]
• Gothic suit in the author’s collection, [123]
• Gothic, transitional, [124]
• Gothic armour at the Rotunda, Woolwich, [123]
• Gothic armour at Parham, [115]
• Gothic armour, 1440–1500, [114]
• Gothic suit at Sigmaringen, [120]
• Gothic suit, formerly part of the collection of Prince Carl of Prussia, [122]
• Gradual disuse of armour, [136], [138]
• Greek fire, [189], [205];
• ingredients of, [192]
• Grenades, [193]
• Grose, History of the English Army, [206]
• Grotesque visors, [66]
• Grünewalt, Hans, [63], [123]
• Gudrun, epic poem of, [26]
• Gunpowder, invention of, [155]
• Gunpowder, [51], [154], [214]
• Gunners and artillerymen, [55]
• Gunlocks, [214], [222];
• matchlock, [222];
• wheel-lock, [223];
• snaphance, [225];
• flintlock, [225]
• Gurlitt, Cornelius, [63], [85], [92]
• Gynours, [54]
• H.
• Habergeon, [52]
• Haketon, [52]
• Halbard, [202]
• Handbuch der Waffenkunde, [82]
• Hand-bombard, [219]
• Hand-culverin, [220]
• Hand-guns, earliest mention of, [216]
• Hand-guns, [180], [216]
• Hand-guns in the Königl. Hist. Museum, Dresden, [221]
• Hand-grenades, [225]
• Hanseatic Bund, [58]
• Harquebus, [68], [221]
• Harquebusiers, [227]
• Hastiludes, [76]
• Hauberks, [29], [51], [52]
• Heaume, [46]
• Hefner’s Trachten, [19]
• Helm, great, [36], [96]
• Helm, great jousting, [96]
• Helms with horns, [44]
• Helmet, close, [98]
• Helmets and Mail (De Cosson), [100]
• Helmets, grotesque, [128]
• Heralds, [77]
• Herald’s tabard, [33]
• Hermandes, Sebastian, [156]
• Hewitt’s Hist. of Mediæval Weapons, etc., [165]
• Hexham water ewer, [31]
• Historische Vaabensamling, Copenhagen, [74]
• Hobby horse, [54]
• Hobilers, [54]
• Hohenzollern Jahrbuch, [135]
• Holy-water sprinkler, [201]
• Holbein, Hans, [140], [156]
• Holbein’s “Costumes Suisses,” [136], [165]
• Hood of mail, [29]
• Horsemen, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries, [54]
• Horn, Klemens, [156]
• Housings, [54], [88]
• Howitzers, [214]
• Hungarian tourney, [94]
• I.
• Imperial collection at Vienna, [73]
• Importation of armour into England, [59], [126]
• Incised monumental slab at Gotheim, [44]
• Infantry of twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries, [54]
• Inventories, [52]
• Inventory:
• Piers Gaveston, [37], [44], [53], [111];
• Humphrey de Bohun, [38];
• Louis Hutin, [53];
• of the arsenal at Nuremberg, 1338, [216]
• J.
• Jackboots, [149]
• Jamb, [31], [110]
• Javelin, [193]
• Jazerant armour, [24], [26]
• Jeddart staff, [197]
• Joust of peace, [76]
• Joust à outrance, [76]
• Judicial combat, [79]
• Jupon, [102]
• K.
• Knight-bachelor, [34]
• Knight-banneret, [34]
• Knighthood, orders of, [34]
• Knightly belt, [30], [52]
• Knightly mantles, [34]
• Knight Templars, [30]
• Knopf, Heinrich, [139], [149]
• Knuckle-bow or finger-guard, [165]
• Königl. Hist. Museum, Dresden, [72]
• Königl. Zeughaus, Berlin, [71], [133], [134]
• Kolman, Lorenz, [84], [120], [123], [156]
• Kolman, Koloman, [129], [132]
• Kolman, Desiderius, [133]
• Kolmans of Augsburg, [62], [122], [132]
• Kolbenturnier, [93]
• Kriegswaffen-Saal, Dresden, [141]
• Kungl. Lifrustkammar, Stockholm, [67], [75]
• L.
• Lamboys, or bases, [66], [130]
• Lambrequin, or mantling, [38]
• Langue-de-bœuf, [176]
• Lansquenette, [168]
• Lance, [193];
• lance-rest, [49];
• with coronal, [194]
• Latch crossbow, [185]
• Leitner, Quirin von, [89]
• Licences for tournaments, [77]
• Linstock, [219]
• Lists:
• plan and decoration, [78];
• authorised lists in England, [78]
• Lochaber axe, [197]
• Lochner, Conrad, [156]
• Lochner, Kunz, [139], [141]
• Locking gauntlet, [108]
• Longbow, the, [178]
• Longbow at Wark Castle, [182];
• at Dover, [182]
• Loutterell psalter, [28], [44], [49]
• Lucerne hammer, [196]
• M.
• Mace, [195]
• Main-gauche, [177]
• Mamillières, [35], [36]
• Mangonel, mangona, or mangonet, [189]
• Mantling, [38]
• Man-at-arms, equipment of, [59]
• Manuscripts, [24], [26], [27], [44], [50], [80], [82], [88], [153], [155], [160], [161], [179], [189], [193], [199], [201], [202], [205], [207], [208], [219]
• Marshals of the lists, [78]
• Martel-de-fer, [195]
• Mary Rose, wreck of the, [182]
• Match-cord, [219], [224]
• Maximilian armour, [64], [125]
• Maximilian suits:
• at the Tower of London, [127];
• at the Zeughaus, Berlin, [127];
• at Munich (Army Museum), [127];
• at Nat. Museum, Munich, [127];
• at Nuremberg, [128];
• in the author’s collection (plain), [128];
• on horseback with bards, [130]
• Max or meix, [34]
• Mazuelle, [196]
• Meister der Waffenschmiedekunst, etc., [157]
• Mentonnière, [100]
• Mercenary bands, [58]
• Meyrick, [24]
• Milan armourers, [69]
• Military forks, [202]
• Misericorde, [177]
• Missaglias, the, [62], [156]
• Missaglia, Tomaso da, [116]
• Missaglia, Antonio da, [119], [122]
• Mixed armour, [40]
• Mons Meg, [209]
• Monograms, [63]
• Morion, [66], [100]
• Mortality in battle, [41]
• Mortar, [208]
• Morning Star, [201]
• Munich, Peter, [156]
• Munsten, Andreis, [149]
• Musée d’Armures, Brussels, [74]
• Musée d’Artillerie, Paris, [75], [133]
• Musket, [227]
• N.
• Nasal, [27], [46]
• National Museum, Munich, [75], [124], [135]
• Negrolis, [62], [120], [132], [156]
• O.
• Ocularium, [38], [98]
• Onager, [189]
• Ordnance of sixteenth century, [214]
• Ordinances of Francis I., [100]
• Oreillettes, [146]
• Orgue, [211]
• Ornamentation of armour, fourteenth century, [52], [53]
• Oxenzunge, [167]
• P.
• Pageant weapons, [156]
• Palettes, [105]
• Parazonium, [167]
• Paris, Matthew, [189]
• Partizans, [203]
• Passages of arms, [76]
• Pas d’ane guard, [165]
• Pauldrons, [104]
• Pavises, [112]
• Payment of troops, fourteenth century, [55]
• Peascod breastplate, [92], [104], [133]
• Peffenhauser, Anton, [63], [93], [139], [148]
• Penny plate, [66]
• Pennon, [34]
• Perckhamer, Hans, [134]
• Persepolis, sculptures of, [16]
• Petards, [214]
• Petronel, [219]
• Pfeifenharnisch (piped armour), [66]
• Piccinino, Lucio, [63], [139], [144], [156]
• Piccinino, Antonio, [144], [156]
• Pikeguards, [64], [104], [126]
• Pike, [203]
• Pistols, [226]
• Plain pile, [180]
• Plastron-de-fer, [31], [35], [110]
• Pluteus, [190], [191]
• Pluvinel, [79]
• Poleyns, [111]
• Pole-axe, [196]
• Poniard, [177]
• Pourpoint, [32], [33]
• Powder flasks, [227]
• Practice of Arms (Sutcliffe), [204]
• Procopius, [151], [159], [189], [193], [196]
• Prodd crossbow, [186]
• Psalter (Loutterell), [28], [44], [49]
• Pursuivant-at-arms, [35], [52], [77]
• Q.
• Quarrels, [184]
• Queue for lance, [95]
• R.
• Ranseur, [203]
• Rapier, [169], [170]
• Recherches Historiques sur les Costumes des Gildes, etc., [198]
• Reinforcing pieces, [41], [94], [148]
• Religious military orders, [41]
• “Renaissance” ornamentation, [157]
• René d’Anjou, [78]
• “Rennen” at Innsbruck in 1498, [86]
• Rerebrace, [106]
• Ribaudequin, [189]
• Rifled cannon, [215]
• Rifling barrels, [224]
• Ringler, Hieronymus, [149]
• Ringlerennen, [94]
• Robinet, [189]
• Rockenberger, Sigmund, [87], [139]
• Roll of purchases, Windsor tournament, [42], [44]
• Roll of purchases at Holy Island, Northumberland, anno 1446, [219]
• Romans, [16], [17]
• Roman influence, [17]
• Rondelles, [105]
• Rosenberger, Hans, [87]
• Rotunda collection, Woolwich, [98], [115]
• Round table game, [81]
• Routiers, [58]
• Ruiz, Antonio and Francisca, [156]
• Running at the ring, [94]
• Rustred mail, [27]
• S.
• Sabre, [164]
• Saddles, [89], [91], [93]
• Sallad, [97]
• Sautoir, [52]
• Scale armour, [31], [35], [37], [63]
• Scale work, [107]
• Schiavona, [173]
• Schiesspringle, [202]
• Schwarz, [156]
• Schwenkh’s Hans Wappenmeistersbuch, [84]
• Scimitar, [162]
• Scorpion, [188]
• Scottish basket-hilted swords, [173]
• Scramasax, [175]
• Scutage, [57]
• Scythe-knife, [200]
• Seals:
• William the Conqueror, [26];
• Henry I., [27];
• Henry II., [27];
• Richard I., [27];
• Henry III., [28];
• John, [32];
• Edward II., [48]
• Serabagio, Giovanni Battista, [139], [147]
• Seusenhofer, Conrad, [130], [132]
• Seusenhofer, Hans, [66], [133]
• Seusenhofer, Jörg, [95], [133], [141]
• Seusenhofers, the, [63], [132], [156]
• Sharfrennen, [86], [88]
• Shields, [25], [26], [27], [112], [113]
• Shirt of mail, [52]
• Sieges:
• Rochelle, [182];
• Romorantin, [192];
• Sancerre, [193];
• Cambray, [205];
• Vannes, [206];
• Oudenarde, [206];
• Quesnoy, [206];
• Calais, [207];
• Hohensalzburg, [207];
• Orleans, [212];
• Lucca, [217]
• Silver’s Paradox of Defence, [198]
• Silver, George, [169]
• Sixl, Major, writing in Zeitschrift für hist. Waffenkunde, [219]
• Sleeping figures in Lincoln Cathedral, [195]
• Sling stones, [193]
• Solidified iron rings found at Nineveh, [21];
• at Chester-le-Street, [20];
• at South Shields, [21]
• Solingen blades, [172]
• Sollerets, [31], [111]
• Sow or cat, [190], [191]
• Spacino, [156]
• Spadroon, [172]
• Spanish sword-blades, [172]
• Spanner for wheel-lock, [224]
• Spear, [193]
• Spetum, [203]
• Speyer, Peter von, [134];
• Wolf von, [91]
• Splint armour, [37]
• Spontoon, [203]
• Spurs, [52], [87], [113]
• Stammbaum of the Hohenzollerns, [120]
• Standard of mail, [39], [49], [102]
• Statue of St. George at Prague, [102]
• Stature of men in the Middle Ages, [64]
• Statute of Florence, anno 1315, [50]
• Statutum Armorum ad Torniamenta, [77]
• Stechen (Das Deutsche), [88]
• Stechtarche, [89], [133]
• Stechhelm, [89]
• Stirrups, [52]
• Stiletto, [177]
• Stone shot, [189]
• Stradiots, [58]
• Strutt, [24]
• Studded armour, [40]
• Studded mail, [39]
• Suits of armour at Dresden (plain gilded), [149]
• Suit at Berlin by Peter von Speyer (1550–60), [134]
• Suit at Berne (Maximilian), [122]
• Suit in the possession of Prince Ernest of Windisch-Graetz, [122]
• Suit with lamboys, [130]
• Suit with lamboys in the Tower of London, [132]
• Sumptuary laws, [53]
• Surcoats, [30], [32], [39], [50]
• Surtees’s History of Durham, [32]
• Swords of Bordeaux and Poitiers, [156];
• of Toledo, [156], [170]
• Sword, The Forms and History of the (Pollock), [169]
• Sword, the small, [169], [170]
• Sword marks, [171]
• Sword and buckler, [167]
• Sword guards, [168], [170]
• Sword sheaths, [164]
• Sword, executioner’s, [165]
• Sword, two-handed, [166]
• Sword-guard (thumb-ring), [166]
• Swords, mortuary, [173]
• Swords:
• the scabbard, [52];
• bronze, Assyrian, Greek, and Roman, [159];
• of Chilperic, [159];
• often endowed with names or titles, [160];
• component parts, [160];
• proving, [160];
• Indian swords, [162];
• Conyers falchion, [163];
• S guard, [168];
• rapier, [169];
• Spanish,[169];
• swords of fourteenth century, [164];
• sword-smiths, [156];
• swords of fifteenth century, [167];
• duelling sword, [170]
• T.
• Tabard of arms, [33]
• Tactics in warfare, [68]
• Taces, [108]
• Tapestry at Saumur, [218];
• at Berne, [195]
• Tapul, [103]
• Tard-venus, [58]
• Tarsche, [89]
• Tassets, [108]
• Tassets to the knee, [67]
• Tenebra, [190]
• Tenures, [163], [164]
• Testudo, [151], [191]
• Thumb-ring, [177]
• “Tilting in Tudor Times,” by Viscount Dillon, [82]
• Tilting harness, [83], [88], [90], [91], [92], [93]
• Töjhus, Copenhagen, [95]
• Tolleno, [189]
• Topf, Jakob, [139], [171]
• Tournaments, [76];
• Sharfrennen, [86];
• German Gestech, [88];
• Welsches Gestech, [90];
• Freiturnier, [92];
• Fussturnier, [92];
• Kolbenturnier, [93]
• Tournament roll, Henry VIII., in Heralds’ College, [82], [83], [91]
• Tournament armour and weapons, [77]
• Tournament of Windsor Park, anno 1278, [81]
• Tournament at Ashby-de-la-Zouche, [80]
• Tourney, Hungarian, [94];
• Baston course, [93]
• Towers, movable, [191]
• Trattato Militaire, [170]
• Trebuchet, [189]
• Trial by ordeal, [79]
• Tribulus, [113]
• Trunnions, [211]
• Tuilles, [108]
• Tunic, Phrygian, [23], [65]
• Turnierbuch des Kaisers Maximilian I., [84];
• of Wilhelm IV. of Bavaria, [91]
• Turnois du Roi René, [78]
• U.
• Ubisch, Edgar von, [85], [110], [135]
• Umbo, [26]
• Upper pourpoint, [33]
• V.
• Vambrace, [106]
• Vamplate, [87], [195]
• Varlets, [77], [79], [86]
• Vehmegericht, [177]
• Vif de l’harnois, [41]
• Vinci, Leonardo da, [140]
• Vinea, [191]
• Visors, [99], [101]
• Vitruvius, [188]
• Voulge, [202]
• W.
• Wace, [53], [228]
• Waffensammlung des Kaiserl. Hauses, Vienna, [73]
• Wages, soldiers’, reign of Edward III., [55]
• “Wallace” armour, [70]
• Welsches Gestech, [83], [90];
• old form, [91]
• Wheel-lock pistols, [198], [226]
• Will of Odo de Rossilion, [32]
• Windlass crossbow, [184], [186]
• Wire-drawing, [23]
• Wirsberg, [156]
• Wood-carving in Bamberg Cathedral, [35]
• Workshops for armour, [140]
• Worms, Wilhelm von, [139], [141]
• Z.
• Zeitschrift für hist. Waffenkunde, [88]
• Zeughaus, Berlin, [48], [71], [85]

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Transcriber’s Notes

Simple typographical errors were corrected.

Inconsistent hyphenation was not changed. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were removed only when other, mid-line examples were found in the text. One Index entry was changed to match the page it referenced.