consists of (a) officer's pikeman pott, with one ear-guard; (b) officer's pikeman breast- and backplate, with escalloped edge to tassets; (c) plain pikeman breast- and backplates and tassets; (d) two fluted pikeman potts; (e) a large number of pikes engraved with the names of certain officers and sergeants of the Company, with dates; (f) a linstock; (g) various head-pieces, breast- and backplates of common type; (h) a number of XVIIIth and XIXth century swords; (i) a XVIIth century sword with Solingen blade; and (j) a number of XVIth, XVIIth, XVIIIth, and XIXth century firearms, bayonets, etc. The illustration of the full suit is reproduced from a photograph by the kind permission of the Court of Assistants.
BISHOPSGATE. (St. Helen.)
Close helmet, late XVIth century.
Tradition. Associated with the funeral of Sir Thomas Gresham.
In the Londesborough sale, 1888, lot 266: "Tilting heaume" of Sir John Crosby. Price £10 10s. Purchaser, "Davis." (This piece was a forgery.)
Cf. Fairholt's "Miscellanea Graphica," pl. xxxv.
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Fig. 1675a. Chelsea
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Fig. 1675b. Chelsea
CHELSEA. (The Parish Church.)
[Communicated by Miss A. F. Burnett.]
Close helmet, skull-piece 1525, visor and mezeil late XVIth century, crested, an eagle's head (Fig. 1675a).
The helmet hangs on a perch (Fig. 1675b). It is painted and decorated with gilded designs, apparently of the late XVIth century.
Tradition. Associated with the Dacre tomb of Gregory Fiennes, Lord Dacre, ob. 1594, in the More chapel (Fig. 1676). Crest. An eagle rising ppr. (Dacre.)
EAST HAM. (St. Mary Magdalene.)
[Communicated by Mr. W. E. Gawthorp.]
Helmet, crested, a horse's head.
Tradition. The Heigham family. Crest. A horse's head erased arg. (Heigham.)
FULHAM. (All Saints.)
Armet, English, circa 1500, with two tail plates. Obtained by Sir S. R. Meyrick from the church.
Cf. De Cosson and Burges, "Helmets and Mail," p. 57; Skelton, "Engraved Illustrations," ii, pl. 76.
