A crossbowman and his paviser, 1433. Arbalest in jacket and multicoloured clothes from the Chronique d'Engleterre, and his guard with a pavise in monstrous jacque over chainmail sleeves and gorget from a copy of the Roman de la Rose. Handcoloured lithograph 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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