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given to him by the Prince de Joinville. The three other suits in the "greate chamber" which figure in the 1629 inventory as having been given to Prince Henry, are described as follows:


"One feilde armo^r compleate guilte and chaced given by S^r Francis Veare unto Prince Henry in a chest lyned within and without with red cloth."

"One Tilte Arm^{or} parcell guilte and graven given Prince Henry by the King of Fraunce compleate in a Truncke excepting Gauntletts and mainfree."

"One other guilte and graven Tilte and field Armo^r Compleate excepting feild head-*peece one Poldron one vambrace, one gauntlett and one vamplett given by S^r Henry Lee to Prince Henry."

Fig. 1441.

Fig. 1441. Suit of armour

Said to have been given by the Prince de Joinville to Henry, Prince of Wales. Possibly the work of Spacinus of Milan, about 161O. The Tower of London

(Class II, No. 88)

The proportions of the suit (Fig. 1441) are about the same as those of the harness we have just described at Windsor, and if it was ever worn by the Prince it must have been when he was in about his fifteenth year. It is crudely fashioned