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Pursuant to these orders each ward was assessed for the purpose of levying 110 men armed with haketon, plates, bacinet with aventail, and gloves of plate; and sixty men armed with only haketon and bacinet.

—London and the Kingdom - Volume I

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The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

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a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck

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Pursuant to these orders each ward was assessed for the purpose of levying 110 men armed with haketon, plates, bacinet with aventail, and gloves of plate; and sixty men armed with only haketon and bacinet. — London and the Kingdom - Volume I

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