The Armour Archive

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here's one that appears tied on https://twitter.com/erik_kwakkel/status ... 92/photo/1

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Robert, can you repost the first link as it's broken...ta!

I'd forgotten about the medats topic for October...doh!

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the BBC History article has an image of one of the others, looks like the "wide strapped" bra to me as it clearly shows the needle-lace decoration, but the item is fragmentary and not as well displayed as the one shown in the Daily Fail article

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Don't hassel the poor wee lamb he's got events to plan and collegues that just point and laugh <- http://livinghistory.co.uk/forums/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif =oþ Well, duh, of course we want it transcribed! easy Tiger! it was 3 in the morning and I wasn't going to waste my time if I was going to ...

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Fifteenth century "bra and panties" :shock: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2174568/Found-castle-vault-scraps-lace-lingerie-rage-500-years-ago.html not sure if you'd seen this or not....apologies for the poor reporting, that's the Daily Fail for you....might be worth looking for the August...

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no images matey

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for a hanging seal you can always go the whole hog and make a skippet to protect it!

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'I think' Karl Robinson, a leatherworker from the UK made the reconstructions http://www.karlrobinson.co.uk/Gallery_leather_jerkins.html it was Peter Crossman who made that reconstruction as he worked for them as illustrator at the time (not sure if he still does) That particular "jerkin" is the on...

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give it to my wife to wash.....but then it may only be suitable for action figurines afterwards

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they are now around 20 years old and were indeed based on the St Ursula reliquary with a hint of manufacturers licence.

As far as I know they were some of the first repro jack chains made for the reenactment scene back then.

The maker no longer manufactures much, if any armour.

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Wow!

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It strikes me as unlikely that anyone would be making meat pies in camp while on a military campaign why do you think this is unlikely? why is it more likely that jerky was used when, as Karen says there is no mention of this technique....salting, brining etc. were the storage methods of choice not...

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beautiful!

thanks for sharing

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looks fantastic, can't wait to see more pics.

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pretty good

sear the beefe brown Ã¾erein

more likely to be "do the beefe Ã¾erein"....but it's only a recipe

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I shall bring the goose wings to the Big Hoos if you fancy a gander (I am so funny it hurts Wink)?

yes, do oh comedic one!

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How does that compare to sugar? I know we have tossed that price range about a bit. Countess of Devon accounts 5 1/4d per pound Greenwich banquet 14 lb @ 6 3/4d per lb by proclamation 2 May 1543 price was limited to 7d per pound as it was being commonly sold at a price greater than previously accus...

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Grains for the Greenwhich banquet 3 lb @ 22d per lb so not too dissimilar

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Ernest, just as an FYI Countess of Devons accounts, 24th Oct 1524 2lb pepper @ 4s 8d cost Marquis of Exeters accounts 1525, pepper 1oz @ 1 1/2 d For the Banquet at Greenwich 1526 4 1/2 lb pepper @ 20d the pound (all from Calendar letters and papers foreign & domestic Henry VIII) Destichado, do you h...

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There are only so many ways of keeping meat from rotting, prior to canning. Salt- enough salt, and microbes can't grow. Sugar/honey- enough sugar/honey, and microbes can't grow. Dry/smoke- eliminate enough water, and microbes can't grow. Freeze/cool- keep the temperature low enough, and microbes ca...

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why not just email and ask them?

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very nice, very very nice.

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Gandi I put in John Hudson potter and got a load of other guff, he needs to sort his search stuff out, it sucketh mightily. We shall be having words you and I. ANyway his stuff is good oui ne cest pa? interesting....he's first hit on Yahoo! search but anyhoo, oui mon petit porto! he's the best arou...

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oh ye of little googlefu EC!!

http://www.hudsonclaypotter.co.uk/

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http://www.archive.org/details/earlyeng ... 00furnuoft

would give you the best selection in one volume I think you'll find....then add it to all those already posted

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EC, unfortunately it is still a 'standard' in many books, most annoyingly those that are used a lot by schools thereby perpetuating the mistake

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As EC says above, when we went decimal the old shilling was 'converted' to 5 new pence -leading many people at the time to think that they were being short changed. This comparison has been trotted out ever since to my continual annoyance, on the day of decimalization 1s turned to 5p but that is not...

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Sceotan wrote:It doesen't help that two far right guys standing in the church look like they're about to high five each other. That's hilarious!!

it actually looks like they're guessing how long the stools will be

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I do not like cutting boards sized to cut a biscuit, so I personally go for a larger surface The trencher doesn't need to be big as you don't pile food up on it to eat off as you would a plate. The trencher is there to use to cut up food into small bite sized pieces if it needs it and as a 'way sta...

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For an interpretation a little lower on the food chain, try wood. And you've seen wooden trenchers where in period sources? Might as well just stick with a bowl for lower-class. PS - poplar is not a good wood for food vessels - it has an open grain structurure, soaks up liquids, and warps and rots ...

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later than the period in question, but fun none the less:

from the Mary Rose collection

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There are some sweetmeat plates of the Tudor era that are 4-5 inches in diameter, thin syacamore and painted, often with mottos which would be revealed as the sweetmeats were eaten. There is also the alternate theory that you ate off of the back side of these trenchers GB with the painted side used...

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Gwen, may I remind you that I am in fact a six foot six bronzed adonis with long flowing blonde hair

yeah, in your dreams matey

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let's just say you can't believe all you read in the papers.

The reporter managed to ignore all the info and more importantly the facts they were given

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grimstone bar wrote:Yes, really clever eh?

Marc knows his stuff, they are big on chocolate at the moment by all accounts.

His oppo will no doubt correct me when he sees this post. eh RF?

oppo!!!!! oppo!!!!

Let's just say i was glad to hear about all the work Marc does

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