From the taces are hung Tassets, ending in a point towards the lower edge. |
When the tassets were discarded about the end of the sixteenth century the cuisses were laminated in this way from waist to knee. |
The tassets are replaced by laminar cuissarts extending to the knee, below which the suit is not continued. |
Composition varied but was around 60 percent pikemen, in burgonet, corselet and tassets, ten percent halberdiers and 30 percent shot, in morions. |