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A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour

Samuel Rush Meyrick

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Samuel Rush Meyrick, A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour (1824).

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Close helmet is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the close-helmet among fully enclosing hinged-visor helms of later plate harness, keeping the form in the helmet neighborhood rather than as an open burgonet or Italian armet twin alone. A named close-helmet in that antient-armour speech, not a great-helm pot and not a morion comb crest.
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Bascinet is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the bascinet among pointed open and visored helms of later medieval harness. A named bascinet in that antient-armour speech, not a great-helm enclosure, not a sallet tail, and not an armet hinge suite.
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Burgonet is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the burgonet among open peaked helms with cheekpieces of later sixteenth-century field and parade use. A named burgonet in that antient-armour speech, not a close-helmet enclosure and not a morion comb alone.
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Sallet is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the sallet among flared rear-tailed helms of later fifteenth-century harness, often worn with a bevor. A named sallet in that antient-armour speech, not a bascinet point and not a morion crest.
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Armet is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the armet among close-fitting hinged Italian and European helms of later plate harness. A named armet in that antient-armour speech, not a bascinet, not a sallet, and not a close-helmet English twin flatten alone.
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Morion is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the morion among comb-crested open helms of later sixteenth-century infantry and parade. A named morion in that antient-armour speech, not a cabasset almond bowl and not a sallet tail.
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Cabasset is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the cabasset among almond-shaped open infantry helms of later sixteenth-century practice, often Spanish. A named cabasset in that antient-armour speech, not a morion with tall comb and not a pickelhaube dump.
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Barbute is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the barbute among open-faced Italian helms with T or Y cheek cut of later fifteenth-century practice. A named barbute in that antient-armour speech, not a sallet, not a close-helmet, and not a bascinet twin flatten.
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Nasal helm is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the nasal helm among conical early-medieval helms with a nose-guard. A named nasal-helm in that antient-armour speech, not a great-helm enclosure, not a spangenhelm band construction alone, and not a bascinet.
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Great helm is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the great helm among fully enclosing cylindrical helms of later high-medieval practice. A named great-helm in that antient-armour speech, not a nasal-helm, not a bascinet, and not a frog-mouth joust form alone.
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Kettle hat is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the kettle-hat (chapel-de-fer) among wide-brimmed iron war-hats of later medieval infantry. A named kettle-hat in that antient-armour speech, not a great-helm enclosure and not a burgonet cheekpiece form.
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Spangenhelm is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the spangenhelm among early segmented helms of metal bands joining plates or a bowl. A named spangenhelm in that antient-armour speech, not a nasal-helm as nose-guard alone and not a great-helm pot.
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Frog-mouth helm is historically related to Helmet.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the frog-mouth helm among heavy jousting helms with a horizontal vision slit. A named frog-mouth-helm in that antient-armour speech, not a great-helm field form alone and not a close-helmet parade visor.
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Sabaton is historically related to Steel.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the sabaton among articulated steel foot defences of later plate harness. A named sabaton in that antient-armour speech, not a greave shin plate alone and not soft shoe leather.
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Vambrace is historically related to Steel.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the vambrace among steel forearm plates of later harness. A named vambrace in that antient-armour speech, not a pauldron shoulder and not a gauntlet hand alone.
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Pauldron is historically related to Steel.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the pauldron among steel shoulder defences of later plate harness. A named pauldron in that antient-armour speech, not a vambrace forearm and not a spaulder small-plate twin alone.
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Plackart is historically related to Breastplate.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the plackart among reinforcing steel plates fitted over the breast of later harness. A named plackart in that antient-armour speech, not a full breastplate alone and not a tasset thigh hang.
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Tasset is historically related to Steel.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the tasset among hanging steel thigh plates of later harness. A named tasset in that antient-armour speech, not a cuisse full thigh and not a fauld skirt alone.
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Gorget is historically related to Steel.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the gorget among steel throat collars of later harness. A named gorget in that antient-armour speech, not a bevor chin plate alone and not a shell-gorget ornament dump.
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Bevor is historically related to Steel.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the bevor among steel chin and lower-face plates worn with sallet and kindred open helms. A named bevor in that antient-armour speech, not a gorget throat collar alone and not a full close-helmet face.
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Surcoat appears in European folklore.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the surcoat among armorial over-garments worn over mail or plate in European chivalric speech. A named surcoat in that antient-armour survey, not a jupon tight coat alone and not a Boutell charge dump.
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Jupon appears in European folklore.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the jupon among close-fitting armorial coats worn over harness in European chivalric speech. A named jupon in that antient-armour survey, not a loose surcoat alone and not a gambeson pad.
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Gambeson is historically related to Leather.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the gambeson among quilted soft defences worn under or instead of plate, in the soft-armour neighborhood with leather and padded coats. A named gambeson in that antient-armour speech, not a brigandine plate-jacket and not an aketon under-name twin alone.
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Aketon is historically related to Leather.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the aketon among quilted under-coats of soft defence beneath mail or plate. A named aketon in that antient-armour speech, not a gambeson as the fuller padded jacket alone and not a brigandine.
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Brigandine is historically related to Steel.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the brigandine among cloth jackets lined with small steel plates. A named brigandine in that antient-armour speech, not a coat-of-plates larger-plate cousin alone, not a hauberk of rings, and not a gambeson without plates.
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Coat of plates is historically related to Steel.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the coat-of-plates among torso defences of larger plates riveted inside a garment. A named coat-of-plates in that antient-armour speech, not a brigandine of small scales alone and not a solid breastplate.
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Mail armor is historically related to Mail.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats mail armour among defences of interlinked iron rings — the class speech of European mail. A named mail-armor in that antient-armour speech, not a hauberk as one shirt form alone and not a brigandine of plates.
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Mail coif is historically related to Mail.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the mail coif among hoods of interlinked rings worn under or with the helm. A named mail-coif in that antient-armour speech, not an aventail hanging curtain alone and not a solid steel helmet.
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Aventail is historically related to Mail.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the aventail among mail curtains hung from the bascinet or kindred helm to guard the throat. A named aventail in that antient-armour speech, not a separate mail-coif hood alone and not a steel gorget.
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Hunting breastplate is historically related to Breastplate.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats hunting breastplates among lighter torso plates of sport and field dress beside war breastplates. A named hunting-breastplate in that antient-armour speech, not a full war cuirass alone and not a plackart reinforce dump.
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Pike is historically related to Spear.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the pike among long infantry spears of later European foot, the pike-square neighborhood. A named pike in that antient-armour and arms speech, not a halberd axe-head, not a poleaxe, and not a short spear alone.
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Halberd is historically related to Axe.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the halberd among polearms combining axe blade, spike, and beak. A named halberd in that antient-armour speech, not a poleaxe knightly form alone, not a glaive blade-on-shaft, and not a bare pike.
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Poleaxe is historically related to Axe.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the poleaxe among knightly pollaxe forms of axe, hammer, and spike on a short staff for foot combat in harness. A named poleaxe in that antient-armour speech, not a halberd infantry cousin alone and not a glaive or pike.
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Glaive is historically related to Spear.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the glaive among single-edged blades fixed on a long staff in the spear and polearm neighborhood. A named glaive in that antient-armour speech, not a halberd axe-head, not a poleaxe, and not a bare pike.
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Bardiche is historically related to Axe.
Meyrick’s Inquiry can seat the bardiche among long-bladed axe polearms of eastern and central European foot beside western pollaxe speech. A named bardiche in that antient-armour neighborhood, not a halberd Swiss/German form alone and not a poleaxe knightly twin.
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Morning star is historically related to Mace.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the morning-star among spiked mace and club forms of later medieval arms. A named morning-star in that antient-armour speech, not Venus as morning visibility, not a morning-star-mark, and not a bare club dump alone.
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Estoc is historically related to Sword.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the estoc among stiff thrusting swords made for the gaps of plate. A named estoc in that antient-armour speech, not a rapier civilian thrust alone, not a falchion cut, and not a claymore.
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Rapier is historically related to Sword.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the rapier among slender thrusting swords of later civilian and early-modern European arms. A named rapier in that antient-armour speech, not an estoc plate-thrust twin alone, not a sabre curve, and not a falchion.
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Claymore is historically related to Sword.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the claymore among great Scottish two-hand swords of later Highland and border speech. A named claymore in that antient-armour speech, not a falchion single-edge, not a sabre, and not a rapier.
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Falchion is historically related to Sword.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the falchion among single-edged cutting swords of later medieval European arms. A named falchion in that antient-armour speech, not a sabre cavalry curve alone, not a claymore, and not an estoc thrust.
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Sabre is historically related to Sword.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the sabre among curved cutting swords of later European cavalry and light-horse speech. A named sabre in that antient-armour speech, not a falchion medieval single-edge alone, not a cutlass naval twin (already Falconer-met), and not a rapier.
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Messer is historically related to Sword.
Meyrick’s Inquiry can seat the messer among single-edged German knife-swords of later medieval civilian and arms speech. A named messer in that antient-armour neighborhood, not a falchion French/English form alone and not a sabre.
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Targe is historically related to Shield.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the targe among round or slightly convex Highland and light shields. A named targe in that antient-armour speech, not a pavise mantlet, not a heater-shield knightly form, and not a buckler small fist-shield (already met).
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Pavise is historically related to Shield.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the pavise among tall mantlet shields of crossbowmen and siege foot. A named pavise in that antient-armour speech, not a targe, not a heater-shield, and not a kite-shield Norman form.
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Heater shield is historically related to Shield.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the heater shield among kite-descended knightly shields of later high-medieval heraldic form. A named heater-shield in that antient-armour speech, not a kite-shield long Norman form alone, not a pavise, and not a targe.
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Kite shield is historically related to Shield.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the kite shield among elongated Norman and early medieval shields tapering toward the foot. A named kite-shield in that antient-armour speech, not a later heater, not a pavise, and not a targe.
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Crossbow is historically related to Bow.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the crossbow among spanned mechanical bows of later medieval European arms. A named crossbow in that antient-armour speech, not a longbow hand-drawn war bow and not a bare arrow dump.
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Longbow is historically related to Bow.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the longbow among tall hand-drawn war bows of English and Welsh later medieval speech. A named longbow in that antient-armour speech, not a crossbow spanned engine and not a hunting short bow alone.
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Crupper is historically related to Saddle.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the crupper among horse-furniture straps running from the saddle to the dock, keeping the tack in the saddle neighborhood of war and parade harness. A named crupper in that antient-armour speech, not a caparison cloth alone and not a bare bridle dump.
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Caparison is historically related to Horse.
Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the caparison among ornamental and armorial horse-cloths of parade and tournament harness. A named caparison in that antient-armour speech, not a crupper strap alone and not full bard plate as identity.
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Bow is historically related to Wood.
Meyrick’s armour and arms speech seats self and composite bows among wooden staves and horn-backed stocks. A named bow beside wood as its ordinary stave material, not longbow or crossbow as specialty forms.
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Spear is historically related to Iron.
Meyrick’s armour catalogue seats spearheads among iron and steel points on wooden shafts. A named spear beside iron as ordinary head metal, not pike or glaive as later polearms.
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Axe is historically related to Iron.
Meyrick’s armour catalogue seats axe blades among iron cutting heads for war and timber. A named axe beside iron, not halberd or poleaxe as compound arms.
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Helmet is historically related to Iron.
Meyrick’s armour catalogue seats helmets among iron and steel head defences of many forms. A named helmet beside iron as ordinary shell metal, not close-helmet or bascinet as specialty types alone.
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Club is historically related to Wood.
Meyrick’s arms speech seats clubs among wooden striking weapons of hunt and war. A named club beside wood, not Club of Heracles as the named myth alone.
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Mail is historically related to Iron.
Meyrick’s armour catalogue seats mail among iron ring-work for body and coif. A named mail beside iron as ordinary ring metal, not plate armour and not a postal letter.
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