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luour may, perhaps, be bell judged of 

 from the figures which occur upon fcpul- 

 chral monuments ; althoujih tliere are 

 other documents, of a htcrary kind, 

 which conti-ibute materials for its hil- 

 torv. 



From the Wardrobe Accompts of Ed- 

 ward Prince of \'v alcj<, afterwaids \'A- 

 ward the Second, in the hilt year of liis 

 father's reign, a curious account of Jiis 

 perfonal armour may be obtained. 



Hugh Earl of Sallord, wlio made his 

 will, April loth, in the ninth year of 

 Richard the .Second, ordered that Tho- 

 mas his fon lliould have his coat of mail 

 HAjierc, of Naples; and his helmet made 

 at Bourdeaux, with a cainuil d'AjUic ; as 

 alfo his fvvord made at Turenne, which 

 Sir Raufc Feirars gave iiim. — (See Dui;d. 

 Bar. vol. i. p. 163.) This, at leali, Ihews 

 that our anceltors were curious in their 

 arms and weapons; and, perhaps, that 

 they readily admitted tlie miliiuiy im- 

 provenieuts of other countries. Nor v\ai 

 this tafte for foreign weapons entirely con- 

 fined to England. Rabelais, who, no 

 doubt, painted the manners of his time, 

 fpeaking of Gargantua, fays, " His fword 

 vas not of A'altntia ; nor his dagger of 

 Saragofa:" towns which were then, pro- 

 bahlv, famous fur the temper of their 

 Ib'ei.' 



In the will of Eleanor dc Bohun, 

 Duchefs of Gloucefter, Augult 13, 1399, 

 we read, "Item, uu habergeon ove uu 

 crojx de laton merchie fur le pis encontre 

 le cuer, quele feuft a mon feignour fon 

 piere." 



In the following century, 1415, we 

 have thefe items in the will of Edward 

 Duke of York. " Item, je deviie a 

 Thomas Beauchamp, mes brigandiers 

 coverrez de rouge velvet chequete noire 

 & blank, & dys livres en mouoyc. Item, 

 je devife a Johan Popham mes nouvdles 

 brigandiers de rouge velvet qucux Grove 

 iiie fill, mon baflinet que je port, ^ mon 

 ineillour cliival except ce delVuis. Item, 

 je devife a Diprant ma petite cote de 

 luaille, le piece de plate qfe niou Scig- 

 Lour le Prince ma donna, apelle hreli- 

 plate, le pance, que fuill a mon Seignour 

 mon picre, qe Dieu afl'oill, mon houfell, 

 bi. nion chaperon de fere." 



But inftances of this nature would be 

 endlefs. I Ihall only quote, in addition, 

 u liiort extract fiom one of the letters of 

 ilargarct, to John, Pafton, dated l.'itli 

 May, between 11C3 and 146,0. — " As 

 for tiie harnys, Wyks deliu'yd it to hyni 

 llie X day of Januur the ij yer of King E. 

 (TaW. W.) ill Pylgryme Itrete at New 

 Cai'tli. Iti'p'ms u peyr br^-j^andyrs, a 



fillet, a borefper, a bawe, xviij anvys, 

 ij payr polronds, a liandurd of niavle, 

 and a |)are Uyvys of plate to the valew of 

 v marc." 



IJuring the dilferent periods here al- 

 luded to, moll of our great f )rtrelies -dyi- 

 pear to have been furnilhed with their rc- 

 ipective armories. The othce of Hau- 

 berger occurs at the Tower of l.ondou ai 

 early as the 3rth of Edward U[. ;uid aa 

 order dated in the third year of the fuc- 

 Cfcdnig nionaich, for making coats of 

 mail there, is liill extant. In the finb 

 year of Ricluu'd the Third, alfu, we find 

 a grant of the olHce of armourer within 

 the C'alile of Warwick to William Wyn- 

 ter, dated Ponifret, September the tirlt. 



Such are fonie of the principal piirticu- 

 lars in the hiltory of our ancient armour : 

 on the iiitrodiiC(iou of fire-arms it was 

 gradually dilul^vl ; though not entirelv 

 laid afide, I believe, even in tl»e reign of 

 George tiie Second, Your's, 



Athli.moe, 



AMONG the fcarce books of a former 

 age, which time has renderered oblblete, 

 is the " Vulguria" of William Horman, 

 one of the mofl general and poliliied 

 fcholars vhom the reign of Hei^ry the 

 Eighth produced. It was printed at 

 London, in quarto, 1.519, by Pynfon ; 

 and conlilts of aphorifms and familiar 

 phrafes, in Englilh and Latin, arranged 

 in thirty-feven chapters, and occalionallv 

 illullrative not only of the fo.nuules of 

 fpeech, but of the manners, games, cut- 

 tomes, habits, and opinions of the time. 

 Ilorman hunfelf was a native of Salilbu- 

 ry, received the firil part of his educa- 

 tion in Wykham's fchool, at Winchefter, 

 and the latter part at New College, Ox- 

 ford, where he became fellow in 1477. 

 He was afterwards fellow and fchoolmaA 

 ter of Eton ; where he died April the 

 12th, 153.5. The " Vulguria" was print- 

 ed a fccond time by Wynkyn de Worde, 

 in 1530 ; but a few of the fentences in 

 the two firfl chapters probably rendered 

 the work obnoxious at the Reformation. 

 Tlie firll edition is the only one I have 

 feen ; but from Ames's account of the 

 fecond it Ihould appear that they are l>oth 

 reniarkal>le for Ibme peculiar alfertions. 



At the back of the title-page are tlief# 

 liiici, by Lilly the grammarian : 



CUIL.IILLII CA.tMEN. 



Aufqnl^ gentis lingimm fi qusris, ct optas, 



Piilfj barbaric, doifliua oie loqui ; 

 Hoc opus Hormani dilca5 puer, utile munus 

 liX vctwiun ttJsreiisauK-u JicU jiatrum. 



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