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The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources edited by Dr. Andrea R. Harbin.
Simple, globular steel cap originally worn under the coif and helm as an additional protection for the head, but evolving into the bascinet at the beginning of the fourteenth century.
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In Classical Latin this word denoted an inferior riding horse or even a packhorse, but from the sixth to the tenth or eleventh centuries it denoted a good horse, usually a warhorse. In Southern France and Spain it retained this meaning, but in North-Western Europe, Italy and Germany it was superseded by other words such as equus or destrier. It is rarely found in England at all. From it are derived the normal words for "horse", "knight" and "chivalry" in French, Italian and Spanish (e.g. cheval, chevalier, chevalerie and cavallo, cavaliere, cavalleria). The English words "cavalier" and "chivalry" are derived not direclty from the Latin but from the Italian and French respectively, occuring first in 1560 and c. 1590.
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Fabric or leather horse covering reaching to the fetlocks and ususlly entirely covering the animal except for openings for eyes and muzzle.
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The officer of the royal household who serves as the monarch's secretary or notary. The chancellor is responsible for the Chancery, the arms of the royal government dealing with domestic and foreign affairs. Usually the person filling this office is a bishop chosen for his knowledge of the law.
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A unit of property in a borough, generally comprising a house but not much appurtenant land, held for a money-rent and according to the more or less standard rules of burgage tenure.
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# The holder of land or house within a borough.
# Member of a borough community, sharing in its communal privileges.
# The member of a town (borough) community, generally a householder paying his share of any communal dues and thus participating in communal privileges and possessing the "freedom of the borough", "burgess franchise", or "borough franchise".
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