The coat of chain mailcould be put on or slipped off with instantaneous celerity; but the dressing of a plate-armed knight was no simple matter.
It may be noticed that a dagger or short sword was worn by the knight even in days of chain mail, for the hauberk was a complete case.
It represents an armed warrior clothed from head to foot in chain mail; he is in the act of sheathing a sword which hangs on his left side; his legs are crossed, and his feet, which are armed with spurs, rest on a lion couchant.
His body is cased in chain mail, over which is worn a loose flowing garment confined to the waist by a girdle, his right arm is placed on his breast, and his left supports a long shield charged with rays on a diamond ground.
The white mantle of the Templars was a regular monastic habit, having the red cross on the left breast; it was worn over armour of chain mail, and could be looped up so as to leave the sword-arm at full liberty.
The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.
A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century.
The gauntlet of the Middle Ages was sometimes of chain mail, sometimes of leather partly covered with plates, scales, etc.
Relic of chain mailon the shoulder of an Imperial Yeoman.
Chain mail illustrated by the brass of Sir Richard de Trumpington, A.
The weather was bright and warm, and he wore no cloak, but only his closely knit coat of chain mail, with his brass helmet, crested with a winged dragon, and his bossed shield.
The morning sunlight shone on his head of tangled gold hair and on part of his coat of chain mail.
He had on a newly wrought coat of chain mail, which was partly covered by a mantle of fine crimson silk.
Goliath, in which the Philistine has a hauberk of chain mail, and chausses of jazerant work, like the knight in the last woodcut.
The wearing a cuirass, or hauberk of chain mail, next the skin became a noted form of self-torture; those who undertook it were called Loricati.
Note: The gauntlet of the Middle Ages was sometimes of chain mail, sometimes of leather partly covered with plates, scales, etc.
II CHAIN MAIL The immense antiquity of chain mail, and that it originated in the East, are the two facts beyond dispute in its history.
Whether these are to be assigned to the Nineveh of Sennacherib or to the Sassanian period, they equally claim to be the oldest actual relics of chain mail in existence.
We now come to the Double-chain Mail, consisting of interlaced rings, which made its first appearance in the triumphant reign of Edward I.
The thighs and legs were no longer covered with double-chain mail, and the arms only partially.
From the foregoing it will readily be seen that the cost of production of chain mail in labour alone must have been excessive.
When a score of years of this 15th century had run we find the knight closed in with plates, no edge of chain mail remaining in sight.
At its beginning we see many knights still clad in chain mailwith no visible plate.
Chaucer's Sir Thopas must always be cited for the defences of this age, the hero wearing the quilted haketon next his shirt, and over that the habergeon, a lesser hawberk of chain mail.
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