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armour of the Black Prince. At Badminton, in the collection of the Duke of Beaufort, there is a contemporary portrait of the third Earl of Worcester wearing apparently this armour (Fig. 1110), also an engraving taken from a variation of the same portrait, in which the suit in question is even more clearly shown (Fig. 1111). The extra pieces of this suit are especially interesting because the drawing of them in the Jacobe MS. is signed: thes peces wer made by me Jacobe.

Fig. 1110. Portrait of an Earl of Worcester

By an unknown artist, wearing the armour (Fig. 1107) Collection: The Duke of Beaufort, Badminton

The armour of Sir Christopher Hatton (1540-91), now in the Armoury of Windsor Castle (Fig. 1113). The decoration of this suit follows closely that of the drawing, "Sir Christofer Hattone," No. 16 in the Jacobe MS. (Fig. 1115).