Show custom of challenge by gauntlet kept up gauntlets gauntlett gaunt lets to the ground in challenge was not nearly so common in tile old dis das as soule boino novelists would hane us think in tile hie first days of chain armor there wore no gaunt lets at till nil the hand was protected by a liften attached to tile alie when gauntlets gauntlett gaunt lets did begin to appear I 1 in ahe lie dis dabs of the fourth and fifth cru sadeq they nacle cumbersome things which strapped to tile ilia wrist so firmly that issuing a challenge by menus ot of them would lie more of a lull job than a hot helides would tire to it nils as not until plate armor licit had reached its full ull glory that the gaunt let beviline became symbolic of ell ge anil it ls has rarely leil been uni g el 1 e but it a symbol ean today thero there Is a personage in england the king clearn plon whose duty it Is to east cast a gloe gle in westminster abbey during tile the ceremonies 11 attendant upon the coronation tit a king and to cry loudly ills his will ing liess to fight any man main aho denies the me new kinds king s title popular Pol lular alog |