I noticed the above whilst browsing through a website on Norfolk churches. The guy on the left of the window has what looks like lamellar or scale armour with large rivets and either leather or metal plates overlapping.

I've seen greco-roman illustraions of similar armours, but was unaware of it's use into the 15th C, especially England??

In this case, I think it is an attempt to portray the armour of antiquity by the artist, rather than actually depict English armour in current use. Yes, many of the bits of armour in the window are contemporary, but this clearly is not.

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Are you aware of any jacks with that form of construction? I am unfamiliar with any sort of jack construction (internal or otherwise) with that sort of constructiion, illustrated, or described as jacks or 'doblets of fense'. If you are aware of a description of jacks being manufactured like that, I would be genuinely very interested in seeing and learning about them.

One question, since jacks were perhaps the most common form of infantry armour in the early 15th century, why would the artist have to remove the cover to indicate the soldier was armoured, since men would be very familiar with what jacks looked like?

Just askin...

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