Subject: 'Ironside' harquebusier
Culture: Stuart, Puritan English
Setting: civil wars, England 17thc
Object: armor
Leeds City Museum > Story of Leeds *
"'Lobster-tailed' helmet 1640-1650, a worn by Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentary troops"
"Breastplate 1640-1650, of the type worn by Cromwell's troops"
"Canon [SIC] ball Found near King Lane, Moortown, Leeds" ...
* Royal Armouries Museum > War Gallery
"Armour English, about 1660 This armour was made for a light cavalryman, or harquebusier.
The quality of the armour means that it was probably made for an officer.
"The helmet, breast-plate and back-plate (the cuirass) and elbow gauntlets were shot-proof.
The buff coat worn underneath could resist sword cuts. The harquebusier would have been armed with a sword,
a pair of pistols and a short gun known as a harquebus.
"This armour is composed of various pieces of the same period and style." ....
Royal Armouries Museum > War Gallery *
"Harquebus armour English, about 1640-9
This type of three-barred helmet or pot is sometimes thought of as a 'Roundhead' helmet, but was worn by both sides in the English Civil War.
This example is one of very few pieces of English munition armour that can positively be dated to the period of the Civil War,
for it is stamped with the combined mark of Rafe Boulter and Sylvester Keene, whose partnership broke up in 1649.
The buff coat, baldrick and carbine sling were all probably made in the early Commonwealth period, 1650-55." ...
* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
"Helmet in the Shape of a Cavalier's Hat
Steel, blackened and gilt; textile Probably English, about 1630-50" ...
"Gorget
Steel, etched, blued, and gilt; textile German, about 1600-1620" ...
"Buff Coat
Leather Weather European, probably mid-17th century" ...
Royal Armouries Museum > War Gallery *
"Harquebus armour English, about 1660
A late armour with a combless pot and an exceptionally heavy cuirass with a deep waist.
The length of the buff coat has also increased. The carbine was made in London by George Fisher.
Its lockplate is engraved with the monogram of King James II, so it was made about 1686.
The sword is much lighter than the earlier mortuary sword but still retains some of its features.
It is complete with its original scabbard." ...
* Royal Armouries Museum > War Gallery
"Harquebus armour and 'proto-mortuary' sword English, about 1650 This is a typical trooper's armour of the English Civil Wars.
The dent on the right of the breastplate [was] made by firing a pistol at the armour to demonstrate it is 'proof' against pistol shot." ...
* National Museum of Ireland -- Decorative Arts and History > Soldiers and Chiefs: The Irish at War at Home and Abroad since 1550
"Cavalry Pot Helmet, English mid 17th c." ...
"Cavalry Buffcoat, 1640s" ...
National Museum of Ireland -- Decorative Arts and History > Soldiers and Chiefs: The Irish at War at Home and Abroad since 1550 *
