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Baggage

Baggage (An article in the Royal Armouries Yearbook, on the Burgundian baggage train)

Pottery This is a pdf file submitted by Johan Verspay, our resident Archeologist, it covers pottery suitable for use in the CdO.

Glass This is a pdf file submitted by Johan Verspay, our resident Archeologist, it covers glassware suitable for use in the CdO.

Everyone will provide themselves with wooden chests, wicker baskets or bags of linnen canvas or leather, as suitable to their social standing, for clothing and accoutrements.   

In a cofer,a harneis complyte, and a bykkete, and a standart of meyle, and a peire of gussetes, and a folde of meyle, a salade garnessed with golde, x.lb dates, and v.loffes of suger. A vestment, a super altar, a corporas, a chalys, a mesbooke, an auter cloth.

In a gardviande, a peir brigandines, a plakart, ij. bavieres, iij. peire ganteletz, a salate garnissed with golde, anoder with a bokle and pendant gilte, a peir mahewtrys, and ij. olde bavieres; a peir brigandines, slyves of velwet.
In anoder coder, iiij. peir schitz for my Lord, ij. bedchitz, ij. peir schites for the paylet, x. schertes, ij. armyng dobletz, and a jakete of leder, vj. napkins, iij. toayles, a keurepayn, vj. white bolles unkeuryng, a grete bassyn of silver, a casse with iiij. gobletez, a layer, a salt, a candelstik and iiij. sponys, a pyssyng bassyn of silver. Item, ij. lytel saltes of beral, and vj. silver sponys. Item, ij. grete potz of silver, a bagge with gussetz, ij. salades, a peir tabuls, a bagge with cheste men, a piece of canvas.

In a fardel, ij. federbedes, ij. bolsters, a materas with a bolster, a pylowe of donne, ij. spavers, a peir fustianes, a peir blankets, and a quylte, iiij. contrepoyntes of tapestry werke.

Item, vij peir hosen
Item, a long gown of blak satin, lyned with purpil velwet
Item, ij. dobletz of cremesyn satin
Item, a doblet, popegay colour
Item, a mantelyn of blewe velwet
Item, a schorte gown tany velwet
Item, a jaket of cloth of golde
Item, a jaket for the child, Tousain
Item, ij. peir schone for caltroppes
Item, a peir arming schone
Item, ij. peir new slippers
Item, iij. peir other schone
Item, a piec of xxxvij. elnes for tabul cloth
Item, ij. newe tabul clothes for my Lord
Item, iij. coarser tabul cloth
Item, iij. coarser toayles
Item, a long gowne, russet, forred with leopardes.

Item, my Lord

Item, anoder coffer ther, wite cloth, and bonetes, and other gere.

La destruco de troye
La Recuel des histories troianes
Labre des batailes
Pontius
Sir Baudin, cote de Flandres
La belle d. s. mercy
Les Acusasions de la d.
Le Myror delamort
Le Jeu des Eches
Le Jeu des Des
Le Debat de la demoiselle st bo freres
Lamant rendu Cordelier

Crawford.  A, "The Household Books of John Howard, Duke of Norfolk, 1462-1471, 1481-1483", (Alan Sutton, Gloucester, 1992)
ISBN 0 7509 0143 8

Chef d'chambre - Armour Chest, Personal Gear Chest, Chambre's Gear Chest.

Hommes d'armes - Armour Chest and  Personal Gear Chest or 2 bags.

Coustillier - 1 Chest or 2 bags.

Varlet - 1 bag.

Everyone Else - limited to what they can carry themselves (including their own armour and weapons).

Personal accoutrements - everyone must provide themselves with eating utensils as suitable to their social position.  Minimum of Bowl (wood or pottery), Cup (horn, pottery or pewter), Spoon, (wood or pewter), eating knife (late 15th century style with full tang and riveted side plates).  

(Original 15th C knife found in Zeeland, with a reproduction shown above it)

A horn comb, linen towel, medieval shaving equipment, beeswax or tallow candle, flint and steel, sewing kit, polishing kit, honing stone, rosary, small pouch, small purse for money,  and bone, wood or pewter dice are all acceptable personal accoutrements (the dice are in fact banned by the ordonnances, but were still played anyway).  Essential modern medicines and toiletries should be kept out of sight whenever possible. Other items suitable for upper classes may include a small mirror in its case, a deck of cards, chess or backgammon set, brasscandle holder, writing set.

Bedding - hommes d’armes may have a small wooden camping bed, everyone  should have a large linen (or canvas) sack (this can double as your gear bag) they can fill with straw for a mattress.   2 linen blankets and at least one wool blanket.  People portraying a social level below varlet may use a cloak instead of the blankets.   (Modern air beds and sleeping bags are acceptable, but you must have a woollen blanket that you can cover them with during the day, and you should try and disguise them during use as much as possible).

Tents - hommes d’armes may have a pavilion (preferably round).  Anyone below a coustilier may have a small wedge style tent.  A varlet may sleep in their man-at-arms tent if he allows, everyone else without a tent will be billeted by arrangement or bivouac.  

 

 

A collection of pictures from the Froissart Chronicles, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Cod 2643 and 2645

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