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Aventail |
mail protection for the head, somewhat like a balaclava. |
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Commote |
a Welsh administrative division, roughly equivalent to the English hundred. |
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Jack |
protective jacket worn by soldiers usually either of padded material or covered by thin metal plates. |
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Lanec |
a term that could be used to describe either a single mounted soldier or a group of three: man-at-arms, archer and attendant. |
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Man-at-arms |
a soldier, sometimes, but not necessarily, a knight, armed with sword and a variety of pole-type weapons. Usually armoured. |
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Schiltron |
a massed formation of Scottish spearmen. |
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Uchelwyr |
Welsh gentry, in some cases descended from the former Welsh ruling families. |