Brigander

Item ij holy water stokke Item A fire skomer i pair of briganders (coats of mail) and a salet (light helmet) A pair of curas (cuirass) ij old bills

The Duke of Buckyngham stoode harnessed in olde euell fauoured bryganders.

Harnessed in olde rusty briganders.

A soldier wearing a brigander.]

... with their “prickers” and “hoblers” armed in “coats of mail, briganders, palets or roundels, vanbrases, and rerebrases, and using horns and clarions." In this portentous and lively fashion they moved on to the borders[…]

A brigander - better known as a brigandine - was a closefitting jacket lined with small overlapping plates of iron which were fastened by rivets to their textile covering.

Every Alderman reviewed the men of his ward, putting aside "all such as had jacks, coats of plate, coats of mail, and briganders, and appointed none but such as had white harness, except such as should bear Moorish pikes."