BAYARD’S ARMOUR. 149 
To come to Bayard’s armour in particular, Meyrick found such a 
condition of ignorance prevailing at the Tower, that a suit consisting 
mainly of armour of the time of Charles I. with legs of the time of 
Henry VIII., was attributed to William the Conqueror, so that it may 
safely be said that there was then no critical knowledge available for 
selecting even a fairly plausible suit for Bayard; yet not only is this 
suit correct in style and date, but it also happens to resemble the 
armour in which Bayard is generally depicted so closely that it may be 
doubted if another suit could be found with so strong a resemblance. 
No print of Bayard’s armour has been discovered in the British 
Museum or elsewhere in England, giving characteristic features, but 
it is likely that better prints or pictures exist in France, seeing that a 
certain form of armour marked in stripes, is persistently attributed to 
him. 
— > See stripes like Rotunda suit. 
Fie. 2 & 24.—Bayard by Alph de Neuville from Guizot’s History of France, Vol. II. 
Note.—These Figs. ave intended to illustrate features attributed to Bayard’s armour. 
1. Period characteristics (¢.e. general form of plates, armament, &c.) 
2. Shoulder pieces, sce Fig. 1. Right and left each agreeing with Rotunda suit. Note also 
gorget, elbow pieces and gauntlets. 
i 3. Striped armour, see toes in Fig. 1, legs and gauntlets in Fig. 2, also the dismounted suit 
ig. 3. 
