150 BAYARD’S ARMOUR, 
Figs. 1 and 2 are rough sketches from Guizot’s History of France, 
they could hardly resemble the Rotunda suit more closely had they 
been drawn from it (see the stripes, right and left shoulder pieces, 
elbow pieces, sabitons or armour for the foot, etc.). Fig. 3 shows a 
Fie. 8.—Suit selected to do duty for Bayard’s in the Musée d’artillerie, Paris (se¢Demmin). It 
is not now so named. It came I believe from Vienna brought by Napoleon I. 
suit selected in Paris to do “duty” for Bayard’s armour at one time, 
but since designated afresh. It is for fighting on foot and came 
really from Vienna. It is instanced here to show the same selection 
of striped armour by French authorities. 
To return to the Rotunda suit. Special knowledge of armour might 
have suggested that this suit would pass for that of Bayard, but grossly 
ignorant persons could hardly arrive at such a result except by the real 
armour being actually handed down. 
Suppose again, for the sake of argument that Meyrick was 
wrongly informed, and that this armour did not come from France 
at all. If it was a suit reputed to be Bayard’s in a British Govern- 
ment collection, its claim would be perhaps better than coming 
