Citations:gestron


 * 1844, Roxburghe Club, Household Books of John Duke of Norfolk and Thomas Earl of Surrey: Temp. 1481-1490 : from the Original Manuscripts in the Library of the Society of Antiquaries, London, page 268:
 * He hath a gestron of mayle, a peir splentes , and a jakete , and a salate , a standart . The xiij . day of August , he rec . iij.s. iiij.d. Roger , of Stabul . Hath a gestron , a peir splentis , and a jaket , and a salate , a standarte ...
 * 1972, Claude Blair, European Armour: Circa 1066 to Circa 1700
 * A similar construction was used in the 15th and early 16th centuries for a body - defence called a gestron, a word which may well be a late corruption of one of the many forms of jazerant . † It is not , of course , a true tapestry but ...
 * 1910, Archaeologia Cambrensis: A Record of the Antiquities of Wales and Its Marches and the Journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association
 * To John Sutton “ a gestron, a Salet , a paire of Splyntes , a standart fowlde and flangkard and xis . of money . &quot; &quot; Also I woll that my Executours shal by [ buy ) a yerde and a quarter of velvet to make all Halowes a coote and ...


 * 1884, York (England), Testamenta Eboracensia Or Wills Registered at York: Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics, Etc. of the Province of York, Form the Year MCCC. Downwards, page 148:
 * ... gestrons, peces of whit harnes , salettes , sculles , splentes , standerdes , falles or foldes of maile , halbertes , axes , bowes &amp; arrowse , and al other things belongyng or pertenyng unto harnes or artilory.
 * 1896, Lancaster, Eng. (Duchy). Court, Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, page 38:
 * ... accompanied by divers “ riotos and misruled ” people &quot; arraied in a maner of warr with jackes, Brigandynes , Gestrons , Galettes , and stele bonettes , bowes , arrowis , speres , billes , swerdes and bokelers &quot; to the number ...
 * 1884, Testamenta Eboracensia, Or Wills Registered at York: 1509-1534, page 210:
 * ... I gif and bequeath to hyme my fetherbed, bolster , and coveryng nowe lyeng on the parlour bede at Radclif , and all my harnes , bothe breggoners , gestrons , jackes , salettes , splentes , bowes , arowes , billes , and other harnes ...