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FLO4678554: A dismounted knight and one of the king's guards to King Henry VIII, 1525. The knight holds a mace or martel de fer, drapery lamboys covering half the breastplate. Guard in arming doublet with chainmail sleeves, carrying a spontoon shield and pike. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678593: Cavalry officer and pistolier, 1640. Officer with pistol in helmet and suit of armour with buckram skirt over his thighs, boots and sash sword belt. Private pistolier on horseback in suit of black armour engraved in gilt with plumed helmet. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4678329: A knight of the Montford family, 1286. He wears a chainmail hauberk with armorial surcoat, sword in scabbard on belt, and carries a mace and shield with coat of arms. The surcoat blazon shows a griffon sergeant eating a gold child, and the shield a lion devouring a child. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. / Bridgeman Images