Caption:
A spearman, man at arms and slinger, 1250. English infantry, 13th century. Spearman and soldier wear bowl helmets and chainmail armour and carry lance, shield and sword, and the slinger carries a rock and slingshot. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, John Dowding, London, 1842.