All the sails were also got on shore, and the sail-makers employed to mend them: The armourers at the same time were busy in repairing the iron-work, and making new chains for the rudder.
Fishmongers, and the Linen Armourersor Merchant Taylors.
The testator was, in 1342, one of the four members of the Company of Armourersappointed by the mayor and aldermen, and sworn to observe and supervise the then new regulations respecting the making and selling of armour.
The Armourers sported an archer riding erect in his car, having his bow in his left hand, and his quiver and arrows hanging behind his left shoulder; also a man in complete armour.
Netherlandish armour was always in high repute, and some of the Brussels armourers achieved European fame.
The names of very few French armourers have escaped oblivion, however; and Italian workmen were employed in France from at least the time of Louis XI.
Duke of Burgundy settled Italian armourersin their dominions.
Italian armourerswere established in Paris as early as 1332.
The Missaglias introduced a certain grace of line into Milanese armour, and the German armourers pursued this vein, making the figures erect and slender and imbuing the waist and bust with womanly elegance.
The names of some of thesearmourers were the Caddells, James Sutherland, Thomas Murdoch, John Murdoch, S.
The statue of St. George, made by Donatello for the Florentine corporation of armourers in 1416, is almost Roman in costume and of little interest.
Conrad Seusenhofer, one of the most celebrated armourers of Innsbrueck, whose mark it bears on the helmet.
The horse armour was silvered and probably parcel gilt, like the body armour, and was made, it is supposed, by some of the German armourers brought over and established in Greenwich by Henry VIII.
These armourers made weapons with each class of lock.
Sir Galeas, Duke of Milan, and when he had selected all he wished for in plated and mail armour, the Lord of Milan ordered four of the best armourers in Milan to accompany the knight to England.
In the middle ages, the armourers worked in their own houses, and each master had a band of apprentices.
The blue-jackets consisted of six seamen gunners, two armourers with tools to disable or repair the 12-inch gun, and two torpedo men with explosives to destroy it if necessary.
Many of the men also went ashore in their working suits, and the blacksmiths and the armourers obtained permission to take their tools with them.
This, and another like it, stood in one corner, and mightily took my fancy, though others were there from the master armourers of Milan and Toledo.
I gave orders to my agents in Italy a year since to spare neither time nor trouble to obtain the best that the armourers of Milan could turn out.
Although it belongs to the decadent period of the Italian Renaissance,” remarks the Conde de Valencia, “it is assuredly one of the handsomest pieces of work turned out by the Milanese armourers of the late sixteenth century.
They are the work of the greatest armourers of that or any age, and illustrate the transition from the “Gothic” to the more elaborate style of Maximilian.
Burgmair, father and son; the latter, as is known, worked with the armourers of the Imperial House of Austria.
The armourers fitted on the machine-guns and provided them with special ammunition.
And certain arms that they had, more than they had men for, they sold for what little these would fetch to certain armourers of the town of Morpeth.
And he did what he could amongst the armourers and citizens that had arms to sell.
At the beginning of this industry there was no centralization or monopoly in this manufactory, some armourers formed a guild, placing each artist in his proper place.
The armourers themselves were sometimes forced to have recourse to him, though unwillingly, for he was looked on with distrust and dislike as an interloper of foreign birth, belonging to no guild.
Certainly not," thought the lads, whose notion of armourerswas derived from the brawny blacksmith of Lyndhurst, who sharpened their boar spears and shod their horses.
Neither Stephen nor Giles knew, but when they reached their own quarters they found that Smallbones had received an intimation that there might be jousts, and that the offices of the armourers would be required.
We can gather but little of the methods of the armourers in their work.
At 9 the Carpenters went to work upon the Ship, while the Armourers were buisy making Bolts, Nails, etc.
Spanish armour and arms contains magnificent examples of the works of the greatest armourers of Europe.
Calvert] During the fourteenth century the Italian armourers had been making steady progress towards fame, and in no city more so than Milan, where, towards the end of the century, armourers came to the front whose names are famous.
There are many German armourers whose names have been handed down upon the roll of fame, but the most honoured bore the name of Colman.
Among the armourers who were entrusted with work for King Philip II.
A helmet supplied at the same time as the above suit is a veritable triumph of the armourers craft (Plate XVI.
As an effective defence against lance and sword and mace they were extremely efficacious, and the armourers of the period attained a high degree of excellence in producing suits which were, for tourney purposes, invulnerable.
The castle was now a scene of bustle and business; armourers were at work repairing head-pieces and breastplates, sharpening swords and battle-axes, while the fletchers prepared sheaves of arrows.
There is always work there for armourers to do, and sometimes at a pinch they may even get their share of fighting.
On the Monday Walter went over to Richmond, accompanied by the armourers and by the lads who had been in the boat with him.
The heavy clubs of the armourers decided the fight.
We armourers were busy night and day, and every man felt that his own honour, as well as that of the country, was concerned in winning for King Edward the heritage of which he had been unlawfully robbed by the King of France.
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