Guy's Porridge-pot

Your correspondent is quite correct, when he says "neither the armour nor pot belonged to the noble Guy." He would have been a *guy* if he *had* worn the armour, seeing that it was made for a horse, and not for a man. What the stout old lady who showed us the "relics of old Guy" in 1847 called "Guy's breastplate," and sometimes his helmet! is the "croupe" of a suit of horse armour, and "another breastplate" a "poitrel." His porridge-pot is a garrison crock of the sixteenth century, used to prepare "sunkits" for the retainers; and the fork a military fork temp. Hen. VIII. The so called "Roman s…