Battle of the Casilin, 16; of Hastings, 16, 19, 21, 55, 114; of Stanford Bridge, 20; of Cuton Moor, or of the Standard, 108; of Bovines, 198, 343; of Falkirk, 217; of Lewes, 331; of Nuova Croce, 342.
Beads, found in graves of Anglo-Saxon period, 39.
Beard, its fashion, Pt. i. 21, Pt. ii. 149, Pt. iii. 300.
Bipennis, Pt. i. 5, 45, 48, Pt. ii. 154, Pt. iii. 320.
Body-armour, Part i. 60, Pt. ii. 119, Pt. iii. 227; at first used by chiefs only, 61; of chain-mail, 61, 227, 233; of jazerant, Pt. i. 64, Pt. ii. 111; of hide, Pt. i. 64; quilted, Pt. i. 64, Pt. ii. 134, Pt. iii. 229, 239; of scale-work, Pt. i. 65, Pt. ii. 132, 133, Pt. iii. 255; of leather, 132, 240; of horn, 133; studded, 134, 243, 255, 256; of banded-mail, 260; with breast and back-plates, 271.
Bow (long-bow), Part i. 54, Pt. ii. 105, 156, 160, Pt. iii. 199, 211, 325; found in graves, 57; its superiority to the Cross-bow, 160.
Brasses, monumental, Pt. iii. 193, 195 _note_.
Bridles, Pt. i. 79, Pt. ii. 171, Pt. iii. 341.
Capitularies of Charlemagne, 8, 9, 14, 15, 54, 61.
------------ of Charles le Chauve, 8, 166.
Carcassone, Siege of, 355; its present state, 360.
Carda, a kind of cloth used in the fabrication of armour, 240, 368.
Carrocio, Part i. 86, Pt. ii. 107, 165, Pt. iii. 331.
Cat or Cattus, an engine for siege purposes, Part ii. 178, Pt. iii. 353, 361.
Chain-mail, Part i. 61, Pt. ii. 130, Pt. iii. 227; early fragment in British Museum, 63; various modes of representing, 123, 270; shewn of different colours, 270.
Charlemagne, his armour, 8; his sword and belt, 38; (see Capitularies).
Chausses, iron, 134; studded, Pt. ii. 134, Pt. iii. 243, 255; of chain-mail, 241; of chain-mail, laced behind, 241; of banded-mail, 242; with poleyns, 242.
Circle, the ornament of the coif and hood of mail, Pt. iii. 235, 237.
Clergy militant, Pt. i. 14, Pt. ii. 108, 113, 153, Pt. iii. 220.
Coif of mail, continuous, Pt. ii. 130; flat-topped, Pt. iii. 235; rounded, 235; how fastened, 235; worn with or without other head-defence, 236; under-coif, 238; with, front of plate, 291.
Coin, with figure of a Frankish warrior, 31.
Communal militia, Pt. i. 99, Pt. ii. 166, Pt. iii. 195.
Connoissances, Pt. ii. 167, Pt. iii. 196.
Constables, Pt. iii. 211; of bowmen, Pt. iii. 214; of cavalry, Pt. iii. 215.