THE ' GREAT HORSE.' 



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bacinet witli a handsome crest ; and several lords, knights, 

 and others had beneath the drapery of their caparisons 

 ringed mail for their horses.' And in a manuscript 

 work entitled the ' Guerre des Awans et des Warons,' 

 recording the party wars among the people of Liege at 

 this time, the horse-shoe is described as ' large fer a cheval 

 ot, a talons moult crochus.' 



The 'great horse,' the arms and armour, and the 

 large shoes with high calkins, are well depicted in the 

 German knight painted by Lucas Cranach in the 15th 

 century (fig. 157). 



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