[117] The estoc.
[118] The lists must thus have been artificially lighted.
[119] The locking gauntlet is in the form of a closed hand, the fingers being made to fasten on the weapon held, the object being to prevent it being struck out of the hand by an adversary. Examples may be seen in the Tower of London, and there is one which belonged to Sir Henry Lee in the Armourer’s Hall, London.
[120] Histoire Des Ducs De Bourgogne, II, 262.
[121] Holinshed, III, 10; and Hall, 16.
[122] Chroniques De Monstrelet, Liv. I, Chap. II.
[123] Such plans made beforehand would seem to have been quite common, but they usually miscarried.
[124] Histoire Des Ducs De Bourgogne, I, p. 185.
[125] Chronique de Monstrelet, I, Chap. XIV.
[126] Queen of Henry IV, married in 1403.