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Men and Armour of Gloucestershire - 1608 In September 1608 by the direction of the Right Honorable Henry Lord Berkeley, Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, a survey was carried out by John Smyth of North Nibley. The purpose of this survey was to form a Muster Roll of able bodied men who could be called upon for service, and the weapons and armour they held.
The pictures above depicts armour that was current from 1550-1600 a full suit (full Harness) was rare it was not even common to have parts of the armour the best a commoner could expect was leather and a quilted coat stuffed with wool which worked very well against sword blows the following is a description of some armour found in the following pages :- HARNESS - A full suit of armour if for man and horse then horse is also armoured (equivalent value today a top of range car a man would need it modified probably 3 times in his lifetime) CORSLET - An upper body armour consists of breast and back plate and armlets with gauntlets or any part of. PIKE or PYKE - Long pole 3-4 meters in length SPLINTS - Lower arm protection, often two metal plates bound around the arm CALYVER - A calyver or caliver is a light kind of harquebus fired without a rest or a soldier armed with a caliver it looks like a small short barrell on a rod. MUSKET - Match lock gun fired by a lighted cord. The codes contained on the lists are as follows:
The following pages are for Charfield, Horton, Hawkesbury inc Hillesley, Alderley, Boxwell, Lieghterton and Acton Ilger (Iron Acton)
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