Umho it felf^ the next 8 upon as many clrcuL^r Plates of Ivotr^ 
each a third of \n inch bread. The two natermoft upon one 
thicker Place an IifCh broad,,: in the liftle Interval between 
thefe circular Plates are plainly difcovered cercain crofs Z^wi- 
that pafi on the Back of the other^ from the Umho to the 
exterior Circle j and ihefe Iron Plates.are alio about the third 
part of an Inch the broader End towards theCircumference^ 
but g adually concracled into a narrower Breadth^ that thay 
may be brought into the Compafs of the U,mho at the Center, 
The inner Coat next to tho(e Iron Plates ( for 1 cut it a little 
open behind, that I might more diftindly difcern the WorkJ 
is made of very thick hard ftr.ong Leather, which cuts bright^, 
Ibmewhat like Parchment. Upon that is a fecond Cover of 
the fame, and on theoutfide of this are plaited the Iron Pins 
that run through the Brafs Studs ; for th^^ above-mentioned 
Brafs Studs are caft purely for Ornariient upon the Heads of 
the (aid Iron Pins the fixih part of an Inch long, that none 
of the Iron appears : this reminds me of Julim Cefars Policy, 
who^ as Suetonim iqUs us, counten^'Oced this pie,ce of Pride or 
Oftentation in his Army, lit Argmfo & Auro folitis Ann is or- 
naret, fi?nul & ad Jpccie;^, quo tenaciores eorum in frallo ejjent^ 
metu damnL The next Cover to the plaiting of the faid Nails 
(which pais through the circular and crofs Iron Plates^ and 
both the Leather Covers ) is a pure Hnnen Cloth^ bat difco- 
loured, though perhaps not with Age only, but jfbwer Wine 
and Salt, or ibme other Liquid .wherein it fermsto have been 
ileeped. And laftly, upon the (aid Linnen is the outrnoft 
Cover, which is of Tofcer Leather, all which Coats that com- 
po(e the Sheild, are bound together by two circular Plates of 
iron, a thin and narrow one towards the Center, and a thick- 
er and large one, an Inch broad at the Circunif^rence, which 
is curioufly nailed with two rows of very imail Tackets, above 
400 in Number, the vacant Holes whence fonie of the-Nails 
are dropt out, are little bigger than to admit the Point of a 
Pair of (mall Compafles, both which Rims do likewiie faften ^ 
the Handle (the only part of Wood ) which has alf) Six other 
Iron Plates about three or four Inches long, to (ecure it. 
That Sheild which i lacely procured, differs nor (b much in 
Size (chough it is compleatly a Foot Ijrgti m che Circumfe- 
rence) as in the Form, for w-ere.isrh;? aVeaoy deicribtd is .1!- 
moft flat, except the fwelling Umbo.tbh .1- ^?!uteiy 0^c<^^ve, 
