Beauchamp Chronicles, The Siege of Caen.
 
Date Description Source Reference
1485 A.D. Four bell tents. 

Front left; quarted square banner (same as that on the far right flank (square quarted banner, top right and bottom left is Or chevron on a Sable background, top left is tieced in fess sable argent sable, the bottom right is simple tieced in fess without colour distinction), on a flag pole, a top a ball apex, curving line decoration descends from apex to roof edge, circles decorate the fringed roof edge and the pole is visible through the open door. 
Front right; three tailed banner flies from flag pole a top a curvasish shaped apex, line decoration on roof and walls, fringed roof edge, some of the roof edge guy ropes are visible on the right alone with two of the bottom edge pegging. 
Rear left and right; only the roofs are visible, square banners a top ball apexes, the roofs are decorated in a similar manner to the front left bell tent.

“Pavises in action at the siege of Caen in a 15th century drawing.” 

“...the Beauchamp Pageant. (British Library. MS Cotton Julius E IV, art vi, f. 19).” 

Pen and ink: The Siege of Caen, from the Beauchamp Chronicals. British Library, MS Cotton Julius E IV.

Bradbury, J., The Medieval Archer, Woodbridge, 1992, p. 119. 

Edge, D., & Paddock, J., Arms and Armour of the Medieval Knight, Bison Books, London, 1988, p. 133.

See the Beauchamp Pageant, 1480 A.D.


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