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Fig. 698. Hilt of a sword of Coventry
In all probability the one taken from the city by Edward IV in 1471
The grip and blade restorations
Collection: Author
occasion of his being created a Knight of the Garter by King Henry V in May 1416. On Sigismund's death in 1437 it became the perquisite of the Dean and Canons of St. George's Chapel, Windsor. According to a contemporary record in the archives of the city of York it was given by the Dean of Windsor to one of the canons, "master Henry Hanslap," who, being also a Canon of Howden, Rector of Middleton near Pickering, Yorks, and
