A suit of armour from the Manfredi family, 1620. Purplish black armour engraved with gilt foliage, helmet with plumed crest, elbow splints, and leather boots instead of armour jambs and sollerets. In the possession of Llewelyn Meyrick. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, John Dowding, London, 1842.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
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