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The bow-men on foot wore either large jackets of black cloth lined with mail, or brigandines, and had the same caps and weapons as their mounted brethren.

The bill-men had probably no other armour than salades on their heads, and no other weapon than their bill and long knife.

The supernumeraries had pikes, glaives, gisarmes, mauls, and axes, indifferently, but no kind of armour.

Henry had in his pay cross-bow-men, but none appear to have been at Agincourt.

ccxvi. Pourpoint.-This was a garment worn sometimes under sometimes above the armour, but the gambeson and auketon having fallen into disuse, the pourpoint assumed their place in the time of Henry V. and became an under garment. It was so called from being stitched through with the threads knotted on the exterior, or, as it were, embroidered. When worn as armour itself it was furnished with sleeves.

ccxxiii. Quarrels.-Arrows for cross-bows were so called when their heads were quarré, square, or made with four projections.

ccxxiv. Mallets.-From this passage it appears that those of lead were first used at this time; for a Parisian mob, thence denominated Maillotins, had armed themselves with common ones in 1413.

ccxxxii. David Gamme.-Dr. Meyrick says, "Davydd gam, i. e. Squint-eyed David, was a native of Brecknockshire, and holding his land of the honor of Hereford, was a strenuous supporter of the Lancastrian interests. He was the son of Llewelyn, descended from Eineon Sais, who possessed a handsome property in the parishes of Garthbrengy and Llanddew. In consequence of an affray in the High Street of Brecknock, in which he unfortunately killed his kinsman, he was compelled to fly into England to avoid a threatened prosecution, and became the implacable enemy of Owain Glyndwr, whom he

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attempted to assassinate. Gam, as may be sup-
posed, was his nickname, as he called himself
David Llewelyn, and there are good grounds for
supposing that Shakspeare has caricatured him in
Captain Fluellin; his descendants, however, con-
ceiving that his prowess more than redeemed his
natural defect, took the name of Game.
Walter Raleigh has an eulogium upon his bravery
and exploits in the field of Agincourt, in which he
compares him to Hannibal. He was knighted on the
field, with his two companions in glory and death,
Sir Roger Vaughan, of Bedwardine, in Hereford-
shire, and Sir Walter, or rather Watkin Llwyd,
of the lordship of Brecknock. Sir Roger had
married Gwladis, the daughter of Sir David Gam,
who survived him, and became the wife of another
hero of Agincourt, Sir William Thomas, of Rag-
lan, and Sir Watkin was, by his marriage, re-
lated to Sir Roger."

ccxxxvii. Hoblers.-Hobilers, for so the light cavalry were called, from riding on slighter horses than the men-at-arms, which were termed Hobbies.

cclii. Pyle of Ke-te-caus.-Pyle or Pill, a small fortress. celliii. In his mouth he had a stone. The cannon balls were, at this time, made of stone; and an order occurs, during this reign, for forming a certain number from the quarries of Maidstone.

cclxi. Habirion.-Haubergeon, a shirt of mail, kept from pressing on the chest, and thence preventing respiration, by a breast-plate underneath.

cccxli. Guilliame Martel bore the Oriflamme at Agincourt. He was the last knight to whom it was confided: his appointment to that office was dated on the 28th March, 1414. Martel was killed in that battle.- "Academie des Inscriptions," tome xiii. p. 640.