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Fig. 1141. Armour of Sir Henry Lee (third suit)
English (Greenwich school), third quarter of the XVIth century. Presented to the Armourers' and Brasiers' Company by Mr. William Carter in 1768. In the Hall of the Armourers' and Brasiers' Company
There is in the Tower of London part of another suit of armour (Fig. 1138) consisting of the left pauldron and brassard, right brassard, a pair of leg defences (short cuisses, knee-cops, and jambs), the cuff from a gauntlet, and a chanfron said to be parts of a harness of this same Earl; for the decoration closely resembles that of a suit he is represented wearing in a portrait at Appleby Castle in the possession of Lord Hothfield (Fig. 1139), in a fine miniature by Isaac Oliver in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch (Fig. 1140), and in a portrait engraved by Thomas Cockson (circa 1598), Fig. 1139A. Another miniature in the possession of Mrs. Sotheby (Fig. 1137A) shows him wearing the suit of armour at Appleby Castle. As the Earl died in 1605 the portrait is also remarkable as showing the use of a form of collar generally in fashion at a rather later period. The surface decoration of stars
