. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . J^ ^ ^ t ^ I ? 275 voiild look about him and see Avhat })assed, whenhis head was enclosed in a case of iron resting* onhis shoulders, with only narrow slits at his eyes,and a few little holes something lower to admitair for breathing: with all these helps this casqueis rather stifling to those who have tried it on,though not in action or in a crowd. No less unfit does it seem for giving or receivingorders and intelligence in the noise and confusionof a field of battle ;

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. A walk in and about the city of Canterbury, with many observations not to be found in any description hitherto published . J^ ^ ^ t ^ I ? 275 voiild look about him and see Avhat })assed, whenhis head was enclosed in a case of iron resting* onhis shoulders, with only narrow slits at his eyes,and a few little holes something lower to admitair for breathing: with all these helps this casqueis rather stifling to those who have tried it on,though not in action or in a crowd. No less unfit does it seem for giving or receivingorders and intelligence in the noise and confusionof a field of battle ; but that this was then thefashion is plain, not only from this particularinstance, but from the broad seals of seveial ofour kings and princes, for many years before andafter his time.^ As the choir and eastern |>jirts of our churchare built over vaults, the bodies which rest inthese parts could not be interred in graves, l>utare enclosed in altar or table monuments raisedabove the j)avement. This of the Black l^rince has a long inscriptionin old French prose and verse on brass plates,and fillets round the bord

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