the head rests on his tilting-helm3, which was made of laton or burnished brass.

The Brass of Sir Thomas Bromflete' in Wymmington Church, co. Beds. (1430), is a fine example of a knight in a complete suit of plate, though those in the church at Dodford, are of a previous time. The earliest of this character is perhaps Sir John Lysle (1407), in Thornton Church, Hampshire, engraved in the second volume of Gough's Sepulchral Antiquities. In the Brass of Bromflete there is no appearance of chain-mail in any part, neither jupon, nor gambeson. There are plates on the knees, and below; fan-like pieces on the elbows; palettes over the arm-pits, and a simple bacinet on the head. A baudrick, or ornamented belt, goes diagonally from the hip to the thigh; he has sollerets on his feet, and wears the rowelspur. It is the finest specimen of a brass representing a Knight in plate-armour in existence.

Sir Thomas Green has a Pauldron" over his Espaulieres or Epaulettes, with the edge turned up, as a pass-guard. There is a lance-rest on his cuirass, or buckler. The brass also of Robert Ingleton, at Thornton, co. Bucks, has a pauldron, and pointed coutes.

The Brass of William Viscount Beaumont, Lord Comyn,

3 In the effigy of Sir Oliver Ingham (1343), we find the first appearance of the Tilting-helm. (See Stothard, pl. 66 and 67.)

He was cupbearer to Henry V.

Or probably the earliest example of plate is found in the monument of Sir Humphry Littlebury, in Holbeach church, county of Lincoln. (See Stothard, pl. 75.)

6 The Pauldron, or Shoulder-shield, was not unlike a gambado in form; it was worn on the left shoulder. The earliest specimen of it that I have met with, is on the brass effigy of Richard Beauchamp (1439). The brass of Sir Thomas Shernbourn, at Shernbourn, county of Norfolk (1459), and the monument of John, Duke of Somerset, (1444), exhibit early examples.

The first approach to the use of the Pauldron is seen in the brasses of Sir Nicholas Dagworth (1401), in Blickling Church, county of Norfolk; and in those of Sir George Felbrig at Playford (1400); and Sir John Wingfield at Leatheringham (1390), county of Suffolk.