Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 403
hese same reckless Cav-aliers constantly hadtheir portraits paintedin the fullest of armor ;these portraits bearingalso the tradition thatthis armor was worn atsuch and such an en-counter with the Round-heads. However, it matters little now whether theRoundhead carefully encased himself in… … William Penn in Youth. The other pieces worn by the stern Ironsides maybe described thus : the tassets were horizontal steelbands or flat hoops forming on either side a skirtbelow the breast-plate. Sometimes the separate Armor, Arms, and Uniforms 689 tasset had plate overlapping plate, till the…
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