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Armour & Weapons
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without exposing his arm or body to attack. In the Inventory of Louis Hutin are mentioned ' iii ecus pains des armes le Roy, et un acier ', which shows that the shield was sometimes made of steel, though usually it was fashioned of wood and faced with leather, or of cuirbouilli. In a transcript of Vegecius (Brit. Mus. Roy. MS. 18. A. xii) the young knight is advised to have ' a shelde of twigges sumewhat rounde '. The shield of the Black Prince at Canterbury is pointed at the lower edge, and is made of wood faced with leather, on which are set out the Royal arms in gesso-duro or plaster relief. THE TRANSITION PERIOD CHAP, II

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