2S 



GUNS. 



On the Left-hand Side of the Figure in Plate 

 Armour, 



A large and ponderous English Match-lock, date 

 on it 1(340. 



An ancient English Fowling-piece, with a snap- 

 haunch lock, the stock richly inlaid with ivory and 

 pearl shells engraved. This piece is supposed origi- 

 nally to have belonged to the Skeffington family, 

 formerly owners of Fisher\^ ick, now the property of 

 the Marquis of Donegal. 



A Magazine Gun, made in Italy in the year 1666, 

 which, when loaded at the butt end, may be dis- 

 charged, by moving a short regulator, ten times in 

 less than half a minute. 



On the left side of the Armoury, over the Gun 

 Case, is the Brigandine Jacket. This is mentioned 

 in Jeremiah, ch. li. v. 3. and in an act passed by 

 Philip and Mary, in 1558. It was used principally 

 by the archers, and took its name from the light- 

 armed troops who first wore it, being called Bri- 

 gands. It is composed of a number of small plates 

 of iron, sewed upon quilted linen through a small 

 hole in the centre of each plate, the edges laid over 

 each other like tiles, or the scales of fish : these 

 scales are covered with cloth, so as to have the 



