Meaning of “Pisan.”

Mr. Turner (No. 7. p.100.) asks the meaning of the term pisan, used in old records for some part of defensive armour. Meyrick (*Ancient Armour*, vol. i. p. 155, 2d ed.) gives a curious and interesting inventory of the arms and armour of Louis le Hutin, King of France, taken in the year 1316, in which we find, “Item 3 coloretes *Pizanes* de jazeran d’acier.” He describes *pizane* (otherwise written *pizaine*, *pusen*, *pesen*) as a collar made, or much in fashion, at Pisa. The jazeran armour was formed of overlapping plates. In the metrical romance of *Kyng Alisaunder*, edited by Webber, occur…