Henry VI, King of England, 1422. He wears a crown on his helmet, an armorial tabard over gold plate armour and carries a bent shield. His horse has barding, a gold chanfron and armorial caparison, with insignia on the bridle cloth, bit ornaments and stirrups. 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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