d Froissart, or
the ghost of Hotspur. The Knight had, certainly, no easy task to
perform; the weight of armour was rather heavier than the usual
trappings of a modern dandy, and the heat of the sun appeared to be
baking the bones of some of the competitors. Be this as it may,
there was no flinching. The last part of the tournament consisted of
the Knights tilting at each other. The Earl of Eglinton, in a
splendid suit of brass armour, with _garde de reins_ of plated chain
mail, and bearing on his casque a plume of ostrich feathers, was
assailed by Lord Cranstoun, in a suit of polished steel, which
covered him from top to toe, the steel shoes, or sollarets, being of
the immense square-toed fashion of the time of Henry VIII. The
lances of these two champions were repeatedly shivered in the attack,
but neither was unhorsed; fresh lances were supplied by the esquires,
and the sport grew 'fast and furious.' Lord Glenlyon and another
knight, whose armour prevented him from being recognized, next tilted
at each other, but their horses were not sufficiently trained to
render the combat as it ought to have been, and swerved continually
from the barrier. It was nearly eight o'clock before the whole of
the sports were concluded and the company withdrawn. We believe no
accident happened, though several gentlemen who essayed to 'witch the
world with noble horsemanship' were thrown, amidst the laughter of
the spectators. Captain Maynard proved himself a superior rider, by
the splendid style at which he leaped his horse, at speed, repeatedly
over the barrier, and the admirable manner in which he performed the
modern lance exercise, and made a very beautiful charger curvet round
and round his lance placed upright on the ground. The whole of the
arrangements were under the direction of Mr. Pratt, to whose
discretion the ordering of the tilting, the armour and arming, and
all the appliances for the tournament have been entrusted.

"Considering that the business of Saturday was but a rehearsal, and,
putting entirely out of the question the folly, or wisdom, of the
whole thing, it must be acknowledged that it has been well got up.
Some of the heralds' and pursuivants' costumes are very splendid.
There is an immense store of armour of all sorts, pennons, lances,
trappings, and all the details o