板甲的形状确实是主要基于欧洲服饰的影响,不过股胸对防御有效并不是当时的人不知道的。
ANd now to the arming of footemen, I would wish within hir Maiesties store, in Corselets for footmen, ouer and besides all those common and priuate armors placed in shires, to be 5000. of such good proofe and shape, as no nation should haue bet∣ter, with good and strong Burgonets, to arme close to a mans head, not ouer high crested, a good coller and an easie, wide enough with Cuirasse well bre∣sted, and not too flat, with good Taises broad aboue
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and narrow downward, according to the shape of a* mans bodie, and not for great hose as of late daies haue béen vsed, faire Poldrands with the turning ioint, and Uambrases with Gantlets
—— Humfrey Barwick 1592