Yvonne - I'm not at all sure but when I visited the Armoury at the Tower of London, there were examples of suits of Armour made of gold and silver. I believe though that these were never worn in battle but were just items of class importance. It was some years ago that I was there and I speak only from 'Dim' memory! If anyone has had the good fortune to vist the armoury, the first impression is that Knights etc., in those days were of quite small stature, judgiong from the suit sizes!  Kind Regards Roy ----- Original Message ---- From: YvonnePurdy <von@yvonnepurdy.free-online.co.uk> To: old-english@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, 20 October, 2008 10:15:47 PM Subject: [OEL] Has anyone come across suits of armour? Dear all, I've just received the 1689 will of Richard Sherlock, DD, Winwick, Lancashire, and was fascinated to see in the inventory: Itm in Silver plate, one Body suit of Armour Buff Coat & c -    £30=14=10 Was armour really/normally made of silver plate?  It seems a very expensive piece of 'kit' to have? Kind regards, Yvonne Purdy (nee Sherlock) ==================================== WEB PAGE: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=OLD-ENGLISH  ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OLD-ENGLISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message