Sir John Crosbie or Crosby, London alderman and Yorkist, and a serjeant at arms, 1475. Crosby wears a breastplate with three placards, elbow pieces and tuiles, ornamented genouillieres. Serjeant at arms in skullcap under a plumed hat, cuirass and genouillieres. 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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