Citations:manufier


 * 1888, Archaeologia Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 258:
 * There are "manufiers," the main de fer, or bridle-hand gauntlet, also vambraces with "polder mittons."
 * 1913, The Archaeological Journal, page 102:
 * as it seems a dangerous weapon and few gauntlets would stand the heavy strokes to which they would be exposed. In the inventory of Henry VIII of 1547 arms and armour are mentioned : “X turnningel gauntletts”; “three manufiers” (mains de fer), and “two secrete vambray for the hevie turnninge sworde.” The last entry evidently relates