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Fig. 414. From the address from the town of Prato in Tuscany to Robert of Anjou
About 1335-40. Royal MSS., E ix, fol. 21, British Museum
of the brim of this chapawe has been unfortunately broken off, and that round the neck of the knight, outside the mail coif, is what appears to be a quilted defence (Fig. 412.)] The splendid but mutilated brass of Sir Hugh Hastings in Elsing Church, Norfolk, which dates from about the middle of the XIVth century, presents a rather different kind of chapawe; for Almeric, Lord St. Amand, who figures on this brass along with other notabilities, and whose neck is clad in a plate gorget of large circumference,
