paunce

1. Item je devise ... ma petite cote de maille le piece de plate ... apellé brestplate, le pance qe fuist a monseignur mon pere ... , mon houstell et mon chaperon de fere. ... je devise a T.B. mes brigandiers couvertez de rouge velvet chequeté noire et blank(citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [AND Reg Chich (ii 65) 1414/1443]

2. Item, per iij paribus de Paunces, braces, & Musekyns avental ... vj li. xvj s. viij d. Accounts. [MED Acc.de Thweng in Archaeol.27 (292) 1333]

3. Fyrst he clad hym in his cloþez, þe colde for to were And syþen his oþer harnays ... Boþe his paunce and his platez. Arthurian, Heroic, Poetic, Romance. (work: ?c1390) [MED Gawain ((Nero A.10) 2017) circa 1400]

4. [19/4] ... Also a basynet with a ventaile. ... [19/5] ... Y be-queythe ... a pare of vambrace and rerebrace, a pare of legge herneys, an holle brestplate ... [19/6] ... Y be-queythe to Robert, myn heldest son ... an holle brest-plate, a paunce of stele, a pare glovis of plate white Legal, Wills. [MED EEWills (19/4-6) 1411]

5. [56] ... A peir Gussetis on a petycote Garnyssched with gold vp on-to the þrote ... [57] ... Some also dempte ... To armen hem for bataille ... And dide on ... A paunce of plate, whiche of þe silf be-hinde Was schet and clos, and þer-on, as I finde, Enviroun was a bordure Of smal maille Heroic, Poetic, Romance. (work: a1420) [MED Lydg.TB ((Aug A.4) 3.56-57) circa 1425]

6. ITEM [8] the king wt þe avyß of þe hail p[ar] liamēt has ſtatute and ordanit þat na man ſall weir clathis of ſilk na furring' of m’ trik' funȝeis puray na grece na nane oþ’ riche furring bot allan’ly knycht' and lord' of ijc m’k' at þe leſt of ȝerly rent ande þar eldeſt ſoñis 7 þar air' but ſpeciale leif of þe king aſskit 7 obtenit Ande at nane vthir weir broudry na perle na bulȝeoñe bot array þaī at þar awin liſt in all vthir honeſt aray as ſerpis belt' vches 7 chēȝeis 7 þt vnd’ þe payn of eſchet of þe aray to þe king to be takyn 7 raiſyt to quhā he cōmitt' power ITEM it is ſtatut þt na burges w’in burgħ duelland wer ony furring as befor is ſaide outan ald’mā balȝes 7 þe coñſal of þe touñ þe wif' to be arayit eft’ þe eſtat of þar huſband' vnd’ þe ſamyne payn forſaid to be raiſyt be ald’mā 7 balȝes Legal. form: panss (item 11) Sumptary Act of the Scottish Parliament, 1429 (James I; held at Perth, 6th March). [Conventions used: ſ, ß represent double S, s; 7 represents the Tironian 'et' symbol; lowercase p with a horizontal line crossing the descender expanded to par; looped, descending plural symbol (for -es, -is, etc.) represented by inverted comma; backwards rising hook mark (for -er, -ar, etc.) represented by inverted comma] [LexP Acts Parl. Scot. (II: 18-19, items 8-9) 1429]

7. [10025] ... Hym self was armed fynly wel / Wyþ sabatons, & spores, & iaumbers of stel / Dublet & quysseux wiþ poleyns ful riche / Voydes, breche of maille, wyþ paunz non liche ... [10029] ... Hauberk wiþ plates yburnuscht ful wel / Vaumbras & rerbras, wyþ coters of stel / Þer-opon an aketon wiþ stof & al sylk, His cote of armes þer-on ... [10040] ... An helm he had on his hed / A riche corounal wiþ perre, al of brent golde / Þe nasel & bendeles of gold ful bryght, ... Heroic, Historic. (work: a1338) [MED Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 ((Lamb 131) 10025-10043) ante 1450]

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