[14] Barnes.
[15] William of Ypres, who came to England in the pay of Stephen in 1138, is reckoned the first of the condottièri.
[16] Whence the French word destrier.
[17] From the German panzer, a coat of mail.
[18] A sleeveless coat of chain-mail.
[19] The earliest instance of uniform in modern Europe is found in the militia of the Flemish towns at the battle of Courtrai, 1302 (Köhler).
[20] The contract price of a bow in 1341 was, unpainted 1s., painted 1s. 6d.; of a sheaf of twenty-four arrows 1s. 2d. An archer's pay was 3d. a day.
[21] See 1 Samuel xx. 40.
[22] As the historian of the Royal Artillery has ignored this gentleman we may give his name, Thomas de Roldeston (see Hewitt, vol. ii. p. 289).
[23] What since the Zulu war we have called a laager, forgetting the English word that lay ready to our hand.