The simple ownership of a full harness marked one out as being of high status. The expectation that those possessing the income of a knight should appear in battle dressed as a knight, stems from the earliest development of knighthood.
Quantity has a quality all of its own
Twelfth-century Assizes stipulated that those with an income of £20 should wear helm and hauberk, shield and lance. The English fourteenth-century indentures under which men-at-arms were
