REPLY1850
Guy's Armour
By J. R. PLANCHÊ
With respect to the armour said to have belonged to Guy, Earl of Warwick, your correspondent NASO is referred to Grose's *Military Antiquities*, vol. ii. pl. 42., where he will find an engraving of a bascinet of the fourteenth century, much dilapidated, but having still a fragment of the moveable vizor adhering to the pivot on which it worked. Whether this interesting relic is still at Warwick Castle or not, I cannot pretend to say, as I was unfortunately prevented joining the British Archæological Association at the Warwick congress in 1847, and have never visited that part of the country; bu…
Topics: Military Antiquities, Historical Armour, British Archaeology
Locations: Warwick Castle, Warwick