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Excerpt from A Cyclopedia of Costume, or Dictionary of Dress, Vol. 1: Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent; Part II
No. 12 is the helm of the popular and heroic Henry V., which with his saddle and shield may be seen by those who have good eyes, far above his tomb in Westminster Abbey. This form, with little variation, except in the gradual depression of the crown, was preserved during the fifteenth century; but the introduction, first of the vizored bascinet, and subsequently' of the salade and hause-col, led to the ultimate disuse of these heavier and more cumbrous head-pieces in battle, and they were only worn in the lists, whence they have acquired the name of tilting helmets.
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