King Henry VII of England and a billman, 1490. Henry VII's engraved suit of armour in the Tower of London, with convex breastplate, puckered plate skirt of lamboys, square sollerets and plumed casquetel helmet. Horse in barding, chanfron, manefaire, poitral and croupiere. Billman in jazerine jacket and salade helmet. 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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