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"One little prente with silver leaves with one fountele of silk (decorations) for one basinet, one haubergeon called ‘Bouillon’ (i.e. belonged to Godfrey of Bouillon), and one pair of plates covered with green velvet, four swords one (decorated) with the Earl’s (heraldic) arms, one of Saint George, the third of the (type used by the) Saracens, the fourth for war, two basinets one covered with leather the other burnished (polished steel), one pair of buttoned cordwain (high-quality Spanish leather) huces (shield covers), one iron corset, one cover for one horse of the (heraldic) arms of Hereford." - Inventory of the Goods of Humphrey, Earl of Hereford and Essex, probably Pleshey Castle, Essex, 1322