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attending to the stout gentleman

INFLAMMATION OF THE PIA MATER and TUNICA ARACHNOIDES

with three hundred engravings

thought to have been erected in the 16th century for noble if not royal occupation

Catch-pole Finish:Rolled attending to the stout gentlemanCatch pole, mid 16th century, (1843). A weapon, dating from the reign of Henry VIII, said to have been used to take horsemen by the neck in battle, and drag them from their horses. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).

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