Subject: 'Ironside' harquebusier

Culture: Stuart, Puritan English

Setting: civil wars, England 17thc

Object: armor

Leeds City Museum > Story of Leeds *

"'Lobster-tailed' helmet 1640-1650, a worn by Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentary troops"

"Breastplate 1640-1650, of the type worn by Cromwell's troops"

"Canon [SIC] ball Found near King Lane, Moortown, Leeds" ...

* Royal Armouries Museum > War Gallery

"Armour English, about 1660 This armour was made for a light cavalryman, or harquebusier.

The quality of the armour means that it was probably made for an officer.

"The helmet, breast-plate and back-plate (the cuirass) and elbow gauntlets were shot-proof.

The buff coat worn underneath could resist sword cuts. The harquebusier would have been armed with a sword,

a pair of pistols and a short gun known as a harquebus.

"This armour is composed of various pieces of the same period and style." ....