1819, James Robinson Planché, A Cyclopaedia of Costume Or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent: A general history of costume in Europe, page 279:
The lancier was to wear a close casque or head-piece, a gorget, breast and back, pistol and caliver proof, pauldrons, vambraces, two gauntlets, tassets, culessets (culets or garde de reins), a good sword, “stiff, cutting[…]"
1834, James Robinson Planché, History of British Costume, page 287:
The lancier was to wear a close casque or head-piece, gorget, breast and back (pistol and culiver-proof), pauldrons, vambraces, two gauntlets, tasets, culessets, culets or guarde de reins, a good sword (stiff, cutting, and sharp-pointed), with a girdle and hanger so fastened that he might easily draw it; a buff coat with long skirts to wear between his armour and his clothes[…]
1848, George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England: The period from the accession of James I to the restoration of Charles II, A.D. 1603, page 605:
The first were the fullest armed, wearing a close casque or headpiece, gorget, breast and back-plates (pistol and culiver proof), pauldrons, vambraces, two gauntlets, tassets, culessets, culets or garde-de-reins, and a buff coat with long skirts to wear between their clothes and their armor.
