Two suits of armour in the possession of Llewelyn Meyrick, 1550. Black and gold suit of armour of Helionorous, Eighth Duke of Longueville, helmet with hinged oreillets, horse barding with pllumes, flanchards and croupiere. Demi-lancer in suit of armour with thick breastplate, epaulettes, elbow pieces, cuisses. He holds a wheel-lock pistol and wears a gunpowder primer spanner on a cord. 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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