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apud Allyngton pro campanili de Ilamelo xiii ", cum caiiap;io. In Koluto Waltcro Leechc de Watlie pro batilln<^io xxv pondcruiu dolii do Greiicstdii de Wathe prasdicto usque caiani' do Ilamcle pro campanili ibidem, continen- tium cxxxviii pccia, qua3 continent de pedibus ere pedes, pretiuni pedis quadrat! ii, ultra xxvi '^ viii receptos per Will' Mason de Roberto Ticliefeld anno proximo praiterito, xliii '. The bells for this tower had been provided before, in the 1st of Henry V., as appears by the foUowiufj : — In denariis liberatis Rie' Ilrasier de Wykeham pro tribus novis campanis factis pro ecclesia de Ilamele, ultra tres vetercs campauas, ut in partem solut', xl '*. W. II. GUNNER ARMORY OF WINCHESTER COLLEGP]. Inventory taken about the year 1455. The following document may not inappropriately be appended to the interesting extracts for which the Society is indebted to Mr. Gunner. It is found in a Register amongst the College Muniments, containing lists of the Wardens, inventories of books, sacred ornaments, furniture, Jiic. These were taken a few years after the decease of Robert Thurnberne, Warden from 1413 to 1450. The following list occurs after household effects : — ARMARIA. Item, xlvj. do Basnettes et Palettes cum xxxiij. Ventall'. Item, ij. par' de Plates intog' coopert' cum blod' velvett', quorum j. cum Frenge do serico. Item, vij. Brestplates cum iiij. Pusiones. Item, viij. par' Rere- brases et ij. pro j. arm'. Item, viij. vambrases, cum iiij. par' de leg barneys et j. leg' cum Cusshu. Item, ij. par' de Sabaturez cum vj. par' cirothe- carum. Item, xv. lorice, cum xiij. PoUaxes, undo xij. de una et cadeni Becta. Item, xij. archus {sic) novi. Item, iij. shofes sagittarum. Item, j. Gesarme, et j. Barello pro loricis purgandis. It would be curious to ascertain what had at any period been the number of men for whom equipment was kept in the armory. We find a disj)ro- portionatc number of head-pieces, not fewer than forty-six, and a slender supply of body-armour, with few weapons ; a dozen new bows had been provided, with a modicum of arrows. It is clear that there was slight fear of hostile aggressions at that time. There occur here some terms of military costume, which will be interesting to some of our readers. We find Palettes, not, as Sir Samuel Meyrick somewhat hastily surmised, round plates for the shoulder-joint, like a painter's palette, but head-pieces ; the pellnris, galea ex coreo et prJlc, a defence, no doubt, of cuir bonilli. There were pusiones, or Pisans, not made at Pisa, but defences, as Jlr. Hudson Turner well observes, for the pis, or breast. For the thighs of the collegiate guard there was small protection, the harness for one leg only having a quisshew, or cuissarf. Hauberks there were fifteen, with a barrel in which they were cleansed from rust by rolling, the customary expedient, of which mention is made in other documents. A. V. ' Kaia, or Caia, Sax. cseg, a quay (Spelman). Ilanible is situate near the nioutli of ft small testuary, on the N. side of the Southaniptou Water.