UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME PASTE     By A. Beresford Ryley THE ARMOURER AND HIS CRAFT FROM THE XIth TO THE XVIth CENTURY By CHARLES FFOULKES, B.Litt.Oxon. WITH SIXTY-NINE DIAGRAMS IN THE TEXT AND THIRTY-TWO PLATES METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON First Published in 1912 Printed in Great Britain TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE VISCOUNT DILLON, Hon. M.A. Oxon. V.P.S.A., Etc. Etc. CURATOR OF THE TOWER ARMOURIES...

I do not propose, in this work, to consider the history or development of defensive armour, for this has been more or less fully discussed in works which deal with the subject from the historical side of the question. I have rather endeavoured to compile a work which will, in some measure, fill up a gap in the subject, by collecting all the records and references, especially in English documents, which relate to the actual making of armour and the regulations which controlled the Armourer and hi

Allgemeine Zeitung. Various vols. Angellucci. Doccumenti inediti. Antiquarian Repertory. Archæologia. Various vols. Archæological Journal. Various vols. Archives Civiques de Lille. Archives Camerales di Torino. Armourers’ Company, London, Records of. Beckman. History of Inventions. 1846. Belleval, Marquis de. Costume Militaire Français de 1445. Boeheim. Waffenkunde. 1890. ”    Meister der Waffenschmiedekunst. 1897. ”    Articles in Jahrbuch des Kunsthist. Sammlungen. Boileau, Étienne. Livres des

The meanings of the words in this Glossary are given either from comparison of various scattered entries in contemporary documents or from the following works:— Boeheim. Waffenkunde. 1890. Cotgrave. Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues. 1611. C. Du Cange. Glossaire Français. Edit. 1879. Florio. A Worlde of Woordes. 1598. F. Gay. Glossaire Archéologique , A-G (never completed). 1887. G. Harford. English Military Discipline. 1680. H. Meyrick. Antient Armour (glossary). 1842. Roquefort. Gl

DOCUMENT FROM THE RECORDS OF THE ARMOURERS’ COMPANY, LONDON, 1322 This is a regulation that no armourer should attempt to sell Bascuettes (Bascinets) covered with fabric, but should show them uncovered, so that the workmanship might be seen and approved. ARMOURERS’ COMPANY OF LONDON Lib. C, fol. 33, 15 Edw. II, 1322 Edward ye Second Be it remembered that in ye hustinge of comon plaes holden ye Mondaie in ye feaste of ye conversion of Saint Paule, ye yere of ye reigne of our Lord ye king Edward,

REGULATIONS OF THE HEAUMERS, 21 EDWARD III, 1347 City of London Letter Book F, fol. cxlii The Points of the Articles touching the trade of Helmetry accepted by Geffrey de Wychingham, Mayor, and the Aldermen at the suit and request of the folks of the said trade:— In the first place that no one of the said trade shall follow or keep seld of the trade aforesaid within the franchise of the City of London until he shall have properly bought his freedom, according to the usages of the said City, on p

TREATISE OF WORSHIP IN ARMS, BY JOHAN HILL, ARMOURER TO HENRY VI, 1434 TRAYTESE OF THE POYNTES OF WORSHIP IN ARMES BY JOHAN HYLL, ARMORER SERGEANT IN THE KINGE’S ARMORY 1434 Bod. Lib., Ashmole. MS. 856, art. 22, pp. 376–83 [376] Too my leve Lordes here nowe next folowinge is a Traytese compyled by Johan Hyll Armorier Sergeant in the office of Armory wt. Kinges Henry ye 4th and Henry ye 5th of ye poyntes of Worship in Armes and how he shall be diversely Armed & gouverned under supportacio

TRAITÉ DU COSTUME MILITAIRE, 1446 Bib. Nat., Paris (fonds Français, 1997) Given in full in Du Costume Militaire des Français en 1446 , René de Belleval, 1866 Mais quant à la faczon de leur harnoys de jouste, suis content de le vous déclairer plus largement, affin que pour lavenir ceulx qui voudront jouster y preignent exemple, soit de y adjouster ou de y oster, comme mieulx verront et congnoisteront y estre nécessaire. Et tout premièrement vueil commancer au harnoys de teste, cest assavoir au he

EXTRACTS FROM THE ORDINANCES OF THE ARMOURERS OF ANGERS STATUTS DES ARMURIERS FOURBISSEURS D’ANGERS, 1448 1. Quiconque vouldra estre armurier ou brigandinier, fourbisseur et garnisseur d’espées et de harnois ... faire le pourra.... 2. It. les quels maistres desd. mestiers seront tenus besoigner et faire ouvrage de bonnes étoffes, c’est assavoir pour tant que touche les armuriers, ils feront harnois blancs pour hommes d’armes de toute épreuve qui est à dire d’arbalestes à tilloles et à coursel a

EXPENSES OF THE ROYAL ARMOURIES, TEMP. HENRY VIII Brit. Mus., Cotton., Appendix XXVIII, f. 76 1544 The charges of the king’s own armoury accounting the Master of the Armourie’s fee, the Clerk & Yeoman’s wages and 5 armourers for his Highness’ own person with 1 Gilder 2 Lockyers, 1 Millman and a prentice, in the year....

PETITION OF THE ARMOURERS OF LONDON TO QUEEN ELIZABETH July 13th, 1590 (Lansdowne MS. 63, 5) To the Right Honourable the Lords & others of the Queens Most honourable Privie Counseil. In most humble wise shew & beseche your honours your poor suppliants the Armourers of London that whereas we having been at great charges these six or seven years as well in making & providing tools & instruments as in entertaining and keeping of foreign men from beyond the seas to le

UNDERTAKING OF THE ARMOURERS’ COMPANY OF LONDON TO MAKE CERTAIN ARMOURS EVERY SIX MONTHS AND THE PRICES OF THE SAME From records of the Company dated 17th March, 1618 The Privy Council on the 15th of March, 1618, made inquiry:— “Who be the ingrossers of Plate to make Armor in London, and secondly what is the reason of the scarcity of Armor, and how it may be remedied?” The Company agreed to the following answer being sent:— “That concerning the first we know no ingrossers of such Plate and we ha

PROCLAMATION AGAINST EXCESSIVE USE OF GOLD AND SILVER FOLIATE, WHICH IS TO BE CONFINED TO ARMOUR AND ENSIGNS OF HONOUR S.P.D. Jac. I, cv, February 4th, 1618. Procl. Collec. 65 ... and furthermore the better to keepe the gold and silver of this kingedome not onely within the Realme from being exported, but that it may also bee continued in moneys and coyne, for the use and commerce of his Majestie and his loving subjects and not turned into any dead masse of Plate nor exhausted and consumed in va

HALL-MARK OF THE ARMOURERS’ COMPANY Carolus I, ann. 7, 1631. Rymer, Vol. XIX, 309 “John Franklin, William Crouch, John Ashton, Thomas Stephens, Rowland Foster, Nicholas Marshall, William Coxe, Edward Aynesley, Armourers & freemen of the company of Armourers ar ordered to deliver 1500 armours each month with arms, pikes &c. and to train prentices and to mend, dress & stamp armours.” The document goes on to state “you ar to approve of all such armour of the said common arme

PETITION OF THE WORKMEN ARMOURERS OF LONDON TO THE COUNCIL S.P.D. Car. I, cclxxxix, 93, May, 1635 Petitioners being few in number & most of them aged about 7 years past sued to Her Mtie for some employment for preservation of the manufacture of armour making within the kingdom. Her Mtie on advice & report of the Council of War granted petitioners a patent which 2 years passed the great seal & was then called for by the Council for further consideration. Pray them to take

EXTRACT FROM SURVEY OF THE TOWER ARMOURY, 1660 Harl. MS. 7457 Wee doe find aswell upon our owne view as upon the information of diverse officers of the Armoury stoorekeeper and others That dureing the time of the late distraccions The severall Armes amunition and Habiliments of Warre formerly remaineing in the greene Gallery at Greenwich were all taken and carryed away by sundry Souldiers who left the doore open; That sundry of the said Armes were afterwards brought into the Tower of London by M