Officers of the court of King Richard II, 14th century. Fops in gold circles, doublets, knee chains on parti-coloured hose and piked shoes or poulaines. Coat of arms of Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland, 1377. Handcoloured copperplate engraving etched by John Augustus Atkinson, aquatinted by James Merigot, after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his own Selections of Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, Colnaghi and Co., London, 1814.

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