Anon12/03/25, 07:08No.2276692
How do peasants or levies get hauberks and bascinets? I thought they had pitchforks.[1b. Provision of troops by Leicester, July, 1322]Expenses of twelve foot-soldiers sent to the king
Two hauberks bought from Hugh the Tailor, £1.2s.0d. One bought and cleaned 12s.5d. and another cleaned and mended 13s.2d. 1 pair of plates with the metal [parts?] of two bascinets, 16s.4d. For repairs and refurbishing, including of the caps and their linings, 3s. 1 pair of plates and for nails and nailing, 12s. 1 pair of plates and one bascinet, for nails and nailing, and for a new lining for the bascinet, 14s.6d. Also, for one pair of plates and one bascinet, with two pairs of gauntlets, 25s. Also 8 aketons and 1 bascinet. to William le Cu for all his armour, 15s. Also 3 aketons, 4 bascinets and 8 pairs [of gauntlets]. And for assembling and freshly nailing two pairs of those gauntlets, 1s. 1 pair of gauntlets, 2 bascinets, and for cleaning one.
Total: £13.19s.8d
Paid to the men for their weapons, 36s. (3s. to each of them). Paid to them for hackneys, 24s. For cloth bought for their jackets, 57s.6d. For shearing it, 12d. And for cutting out [the pattern] and repairs, 6s.6d. And for silk and sendal, 6d. For two and a half ells of fustian, 10d. For card and sendal for their pennons, and thread together with the cutting out [of the shape], 12¼d.
Total: £6.7s.4¼d.