For ye now Earle of Dorset Tilte Armor 1.
For ye Earle of Oxford Tilte Armor 1 more for ye feelde Armor 1.
For ye Lo. Garret Tilte Armor 1.
- For ye Lo. Compton Tilte Armor 1.
For ye Earle of Desmond Tilte Armor 1.
For ye Lo. Mansfeelde Tilte Armor 1 more for ye feelde Armor 1.
For my Lo. Monioy Tilte Armor 1 more for ye feelde Armor 1.
- For ye Earle of Bedford feelde Armor 1.
For ye Lo. Stanhop Tilte Armor 1.
For ye Lo. Bru Tilte Armor 1.
For ye Lo. Gourdon feelde Armor 1.
For Sr Henrie Mildmay Tilte Armor 1.
For Mr. Carle Tylte Armor 1.
For Sr William Hayden for his Ma^{ties} s'vice at S^t Martin islands feelde Armor 4.
For ye M^r of ye Armorie feelde Armor 1.
For Sr William Pitt feelde Armor 1.
For Sr Arnold Harbert feelde Armor 1.
For Sr Adam Newton feelde Armor 1.
For ye Barron of Burford Tilte Armor 1 more for ye feelde Armor 1.
An order for making a tilte Armor for ye Lo. Marquis Hamilton. 1.
An order for making a tilte Armor for ye Earle of Northampton. 1.
Some of these were made by ye King's Ma^{ties} com̄aund and some by the Lo. Chamberlins com̄aund, and ye rest by com̄aund from ye Master of his Ma^{ties} Armoury.
Besides other new armors and worke that is ready in the Office upon anie occasion.
This list shows the importance of the productions of the Greenwich
armourers in the latter part of the XVIth and at the commencement of the
XVIIth centuries, and of the existence of suits in stock in case a person
desired to purchase one. It will be noticed, however, that two of the
names figuring in the 1625 list appear in the illustrated MS., viz.: "Ye
Lo. Compton . . . Tilte Armor 1," and "For ye Earle of Bedford . . .
feelde." If these two suits are the same two as those illustrated in the
MS., then a second MS. must probably have once been in existence
illustrating the remainder of the suits mentioned in 1625—perhaps with an
index which would have thrown some light on this mysterious group of armour
and its still more mysterious maker or makers. The Inventario de la Armeria de Valladolid of Charles V, preserved at Madrid, is an instance of a pictorial inventory of an armoury, in which armour and weapons of various origins and dates are all drawn by the same hand, with notes here and there concerning them.
