. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . w the Collectionin the early years of the nineteenth century, the principal figures were setout as follows, the numbers in parentheses being those of the presentcatalogue : 1. William the Conqueror—White armour of the time of Edward VI. (II. 40) 2. Edward I—A suit of blue steel, with gilt slashings of the same date. (H. 83?) 3. Edward III—White armour of the time of Henry VIII. (II. 9) Henry IV—White armour of the time of Edward VI. Henry V—White armour, partly sixteenth and partly seventeenthcentury. 4-5- 6,7- Henry VI and Edwar
. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . w the Collectionin the early years of the nineteenth century, the principal figures were setout as follows, the numbers in parentheses being those of the presentcatalogue : 1. William the Conqueror—White armour of the time of Edward VI. (II. 40) 2. Edward I—A suit of blue steel, with gilt slashings of the same date. (H. 83?) 3. Edward III—White armour of the time of Henry VIII. (II. 9) Henry IV—White armour of the time of Edward VI. Henry V—White armour, partly sixteenth and partly seventeenthcentury. 4-5- 6,7- Henry VI and Edward IV—The same type of armouras Henry V. 8. Edward V—A boys suit. 9. Henrv VII—The Engraved suit of Henry VIII.(11. 5) Henry VIII—His own properarmour. (II. 8) Edward VI—Engraved and giltarmour with Scripturalsubjects. (II. 88) James I—Armour decoratedwith the Bear and RaggedStaflF. (II. 81) Charles I—His own properarmour. (II. 91) Charles II — Armour withembossed lions masks.(II. 89) 10 II 12 13 14 py//J, .\v\ftf/:/<.s!r ^ (From ail Engraving, source unknown.) Antient Armour, 1824, Vol. III. 26 THE ARMOURIES OF THE TOWER OF LONDON. 15. William HI—A suit of black and gold armour of the timeof Edward VI / i6. George I—A white suit of the time of Henry VIII. 17. George II—A suit of the time of Henry VIII, ornamented withgilding. Kings John, Henry III, Henry V and Henry VI were all in seventeenthcentury cuirassier armour, and carried flamberge swords of the sameperiod. Charles Brandon and Will Somers were in similar armour, thelatter wearing Henry VIIIs mask helmet (IV. 21), and QueenElizabeth wore over her dress a garde-rein from the fluted suit(II. 2), put on upside down. Most of these figures were mounted onOriental saddles with Turkey bridles. The interior of the HorseArmoury was drawn by Rowlandson and Pugin for the Microcosm ofLondon in 1809. In 1686 the wooden head of Charles I and the horse upon which hisarmour was mounted were c
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